Gender Differences at Work

Women and Men in Non-traditional Occupations

By: Christine L. Williams

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Paperback | 8 May 1991 | Edition Number 1

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Nurses and marines epitomize accepted definitions of femininity and masculinity. Using ethnographic research and provocative in-depth interviews, Christine Williams argues that our popular stereotypes of individuals in nontraditional occupations - male nurses and female marines for example - are entirely unfounded. This new perspective helps to account for the stubborn resilience of occupational stratification in the face of affirmative action and other anti-discrimination policies.

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"Williams [has] done us a service by urging us to look more closely at the complex forms of identity that emerge on both sides of the sexual divide and at the interplay between them."--Alice Kessler-Harris, "The Women's Review of Books

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