The New STEM Gap: Study Confirms Gay Men Are Ls Likely Than Straight Men To Be In STEM Fields

Contents:

• GAY MEN JOBS
• THERE MAY BE SOME TTH TO THE ‘GAY JOBS’ STEREOTYPE
• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• GET REAL AT WORK GAY MEN'S CAREER COACHG
• GAY MEN USED TO EARN LS THAN STRAIGHT MEN; NOW THEY EARN MORE
• GAY MEN EARN DEGRE AT HIGHT RATE, STUDY FDS
• 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' TEASER NFIRMS LUS GRABEEL'S RYAN EVANS IS GAY WH SAME-SEX KISS
• THE NEW STEM GAP: STUDY CONFIRMS GAY MEN ARE LS LIKELY THAN STRAIGHT MEN TO BE IN STEM FIELDS

GAY MEN JOBS

People of lor, people wh disabili, and lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people are enuraged to apply. 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.

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

” 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.

ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

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.

GET REAL AT WORK GAY MEN'S CAREER COACHG

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. Occupatnal patterns are ually slow to change bee they ntue to reflect earlier tnal and reer choic and bee the gay- or lbian-iendly reputatn of an occupatn n persist for a long time and ntue to draw gay and lbian workers.

This article is based on the thors’ paper Concealable Stigma and Occupatnal Segregatn: Toward a Theory of Gay and Lbian Occupatns, Admistrative Science Quarterly, 2015, 60(3): 446-481. Although gay men and lbians nstute between 4 percent and 17 percent of the workforce, a larger proportn than many other mory groups, they rema an unrstudied populatn that is often “visible” the reers lerature.

GAY MEN USED TO EARN LS THAN STRAIGHT MEN; NOW THEY EARN MORE

It is important to unrstand the unique challeng faced by lbians, gay men, and bisexuals the workplace and to appreciate how the challeng fluence their reer cisns, paths, and procs. Lbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) workers face at least three unique challeng that fluence their reers and workplace experienc.

GAY MEN EARN DEGRE AT HIGHT RATE, STUDY FDS

It is important to regnize that disclosure of a gay inty is not an all-or-none cisn but occurs on a ntuum rangg om full disclosure to nondisclosure.

'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' TEASER NFIRMS LUS GRABEEL'S RYAN EVANS IS GAY WH SAME-SEX KISS

Individuals may disclose their sexual inty to var gre both work and nonwork settgs and may selectively disclose their gay inty to workers, supervisors, iends, and fay.

THE NEW STEM GAP: STUDY CONFIRMS GAY MEN ARE LS LIKELY THAN STRAIGHT MEN TO BE IN STEM FIELDS

For example, they may nfi their sexual inty to a few tsted workers, but this rmatn may be spread to others the anizatn, cludg those who hold negative views toward homosexualy. The cisn to disclose a gay inty the workplace is therefore a plex cisn that is often a source of strs for many LGB workers.

The send challenge that affects the reers and workplace experienc of LGB workers is that discrimatn agast LGB employe who are gay, or simply appear to be gay, is legal most workplac the Uned Stat and abroad. discrimatn, and existg rearch dit that between 25 percent to 66 percent of gay and lbian employe face discrimatn the workplace. Disclosure of a gay inty has been found to rult social rejectn, job termatn, and even physil asslt.