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Gender & Society, Vol. 2, No. 1,
58-81 (1988)
DOI: 10.1177/089124388002001005
© 1988 Sociologists for Women in Society
BRINGING THE MEN BACK IN:
Sex Differentiation and the Devaluation of Women's Work
BARBARA F. RESKIN
University of Illinois, Urbana
To reduce sex differences in employment outcomes, we must examine them in the context of the sex-gender hierarchy. The conventional explanation for wage gap—job segregation—is incorrect because it ignores men's incentive to preserve their advantages and their ability to do so by establishing the rules that distribute rewards. The primary method through which all dominant groups maintain their hegemony is by differentiating the subordinate group and defining it as inferior and hence meriting inferior treatment. My argument implies that neither sex-integrating jobs nor implementing comparable worth will markedly improve women's employment status because men can subvert these mechanisms or even change the rules by which rewards are allocated. As evidence, I show that occupational integration has failed to advance women appreciably, and I argue that comparable worth is not likely to be much more effective. Instead, we must seek political analyses and political solutions.
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