There may be some tth to the 'gay jobs' stereotype | LSE Bs Review

Contents:

• THERE MAY BE SOME TTH TO THE ‘GAY JOBS’ STEREOTYPE
• GAY JOB STEREOTYP HAVE SOME TTH, ARGUE AMICS
• GAY STEREOTYP: ARE THEY TE?

THERE MAY BE SOME TTH TO THE ‘GAY JOBS’ STEREOTYPE

There is an unually high ncentratn of gay or lbian workers certa occupatns. For example, both gay men and lbians and are overreprented psychology, law, social work, and universy teachg.

And there are real occupatnal patterns behd some popular stereotyp, om the gay flight attendant to the lbian tck driver. To unrstand the occupatnal segregatn of gay and lbian workers, we examed two hypoth.

” So we predicted that gay men and lbians would be more likely to work occupatns wh higher task pennce (e.

GAY JOB STEREOTYP HAVE SOME TTH, ARGUE AMICS

Sce gay men and lbians tend to experience the threat of discrimatn om a young age, knowg how to read social cu might be an important acquired skill for the dividuals. Th we expected that gay men and lbians would be more likely to be jobs that require high levels of social perceptivens (e. Overall, our predictn is that gay and lbian workers will tend to ncentrate occupatns that provi a high gree of task pennce or require a high level of social perceptivens, or both.

GAY STEREOTYP: ARE THEY TE?

Consistent wh our predictns, both gay men and lbians tend to ncentrate occupatns that provi task pennce or require social perceptivens, or both.

Table 1 lists occupatns wh the hight jot proportn of gay and lbian workers. E., those which more than 50 percent of all workers are men) wh the hight proportn of gay workers and the hight proportn of lbian workers.