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Where Do Women's Jobs Come From? Job Resegregation in an American Bank

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  • Eva Skuratowicz
  • Larry W. Hunter

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We document changes in the gender composition of jobs in a large American bank. This change was occasioned by a restructuring initiative that created new positions. Through interviews with employees and direct observation of work in four geographic regions, we identify five factors that underlie the process of resegregation: managers built gendered assumptions into the new jobs; managers framed employees' choices based on these assumptions; employees responded to these cues and to the characteristics of the jobs; management made job assignments that were consistent with both their assumptions and employees' choices; and both managers and employees developed shared gender norms associated with the new positions.

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  • Eva Skuratowicz & Larry W. Hunter, 2001. "Where Do Women's Jobs Come From? Job Resegregation in an American Bank," Center for Financial Institutions Working Papers 01-27, Wharton School Center for Financial Institutions, University of Pennsylvania.
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    2. Susan Halford & Mike Savage, 1995. "Restructuring Organisations, Changing People: Gender and Restructuring in Banking and Local Government," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 9(1), pages 97-122, March.
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