Gender on a jagged edge - The security industry, its clients, and the reproduction and revision of gender

Citation
Bh. Erickson et al., Gender on a jagged edge - The security industry, its clients, and the reproduction and revision of gender, WORK OCCUP, 27(3), 2000, pp. 294-318
Citations number
28
Categorie Soggetti
Sociology & Antropology
Journal title
WORK AND OCCUPATIONS
ISSN journal
07308884 → ACNP
Volume
27
Issue
3
Year of publication
2000
Pages
294 - 318
Database
ISI
SICI code
0730-8884(200008)27:3<294:GOAJE->2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
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.