caa a22 4500 397524331 CHVBK 20180308164641.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e19950201xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/3097007 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.2307/3097007 Gender and Employment in the Service Sector [Elektronische Daten] [Thomas L. Steiger, Mark Wardell] Previous research (Steiger and Wardell 1992) assessed post-industrial society and labor process hypotheses using data representing the entire United States paid workforce for 1950, 1970, and 1990. Results indicate a better fit between changes in the skill composition of the workforce as expected by labor process theory than by post-industrial society theory. The present research focuses on the United States service sector from 1950 to 1990 using detailed occupation by industry data. The research questions are whether the knowledge-based work of the services industries encourages 1) an upgraded and 2) a less gender segregated distribution of workers over time. We find that inclusion of women from the latent labor reserve offsets, in some industries severely, an otherwise upward shift in the proportion of service workers occupying higher skilled jobs. Moreover, where women have maintained a numerical majority, such as in professional services, their standing in the skill structure relative to men significantly deteriorated over the forty years © 1995 Society for the Study of Social Problems, Inc. Gender nationallicence Steiger Thomas L. Indiana State University aut Wardell Mark Indiana State University aut Social Problems Oxford University Press 42/1(1995-02-01), 91-123 0037-7791 42:1<91 1995 42 socpro https://doi.org/10.2307/3097007 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/3097007 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Steiger Thomas L. Indiana State University aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wardell Mark Indiana State University aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Problems Oxford University Press 42/1(1995-02-01), 91-123 0037-7791 42:1<91 1995 42 socpro Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford