Previous research on occupational devaluation typically evaluates the potential wage declines associated with a significant inflow of women into an occupation; results have been mixed.
In occupations in which the female share increases, wages decline in particular for men, which contributes to a reduction in the gender wage gap if occupational sorting decreases
Norah Vincent became an instant media sensation with the publication of Self-Made Man, her take on just how hard it is to be a man, even in a man’s world
By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the
past 35 years, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women’s
happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men
Beginning with Aristotle, and then through much of the Enlightenment period, moral and political philosophers have regarded the relatively independent male as normative, with the female as secondary, dependent, and therefore, subordinate in value to the male. But when we give pride of place, as care ethicists do, to the dependent and vulnerable and those who care for them, then the gestating and nursing maternal body is ascendant.
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