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

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• THERE MAY BE SOME TTH TO THE ‘GAY JOBS’ STEREOTYPE
• GAY MEN
• WHAT ARE THE BT JOBS FOR GAY PROFSNALS?
• WHAT OCCUPATNS HAVE THE HIGHT PROPORTN OF GAYS? REDDORS SAY…
• STEP-BY-STEP INSTCTNS FOR SHOOTG YOUR SHOT WH GAY GUYS
• HOW TO GET A MAN (FOR GAY MEN)

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.

GAY MEN

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.

Table 1 lists occupatns wh the hight jot proportn of gay and lbian workers.

WHAT ARE THE BT JOBS FOR GAY PROFSNALS?

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.

WHAT OCCUPATNS HAVE THE HIGHT PROPORTN OF GAYS? REDDORS SAY…

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. Here is a look at some of the bt jobs that relate to or directly support lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer issu. 8% of gay, lbian, or bisexual youth report havg nsired suici the prev year, pared to 13.

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