Men who are unemployed are more likely to take on female-dominated jobs — and may experience advantages (via ConversationUS)
experience, on average, a 4% wage increase and significant boosts to the prestige of their job relative to their previous job before unemployment.
In contrast, men who entered male-dominated jobs or jobs that had an equal balance of men and women either maintained or lost ground in wages and occupational prestige. Examples of mixed-gender jobs include claims adjusters, property managers, and retail salespersons.of lost wages or prestige in a man's subsequent job after being unemployed.
If female-dominated jobs tend to pay less than comparable male-dominated jobs, what explains these job advantages? We suspect that some men may be willing to take a female-dominated job only if it offers higher wages or more occupational prestige. Thus, they may specifically target upgraded jobs in these cases.men's previous occupational backgrounds in male-dominated or mixed-gender fields, allowing them access to higher level jobs than in other sectors.
Notably, there may be future benefits of entering female-dominated jobs, like stepping onto a "glass escalator." on men in nontraditional fields have found that straight, white men are often fast-tracked to management positions, akin to riding an invisible – but very real – escalator up to the top.that many women face in which they experience barriers in rising to leadership and contribute to gender inequality within female-dominated domains.researchTorre's work shows that many men use female-dominated jobs as a stopgap position before moving back into a male-dominated or mixed-gender job.
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