Certa occupatns have an unually high ncentratn of gay or lbian workers. In new rearch, Michel Anteby, Carly Knight and András Tilcsik exame why
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.
GAY JOB STEREOTYP HAVE SOME TTH, ARGUE AMICS
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. 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. Consistent wh our predictns, both gay men and lbians tend to ncentrate occupatns that provi task pennce or require social perceptivens, or both.
GAY STEREOTYP: ARE THEY TE?
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.
Occupatns wh the Hight Jot Proportn of Gay and Lbian Workers. Female- and Male-Majory Occupatns wh Hight Proportn of Gay or Lbian Workers. Hight proportn of lbians among female workersHight proportn of gay men among male workers.
Our fdgs suggt that gay and lbian workers might be drawn to a different set of occupatns than heterosexual workers and perhaps brg wh them a distct set of skills to the occupatns. Gay and lbian workers probably veloped some of the skills as a rult of social adaptatn to discrimatn. As a rult, gay men and lbians may lose their skill for social perceptivens, which may make them ls distct the labor market.