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The security industry has seen an influx of women in recent decades. Althou
gh some have been resegregated into relatively poorly rewarded jobs seen as
suitable for women, some have found better jobs or jobs usually seen as "m
en's work." We trace these variable outcomes to the flexibility of ideas ab
out jobs and gender, the greater power of ideas about gender relationships,
the tension between gender homophily and gender status expectations, relat
ionships to clients and targets (people dealt with for the client), and cli
ent and target gender. Gender ideas, inequality, and segregation are both r
eproduced and revised in the security industry.