Gender, Age and Inequality in the Professions: Exploring the Disordering, Disruptive and Chaotic Properties of Communication

ISBN-13: 9780367786762 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 286 str.

Marta Choroszewicz; Tracey L. Adams

Opis

Gender, Age and Inequality in the Professions explores men’s and women’s experiences of professional work and careers through an intersectional lens by focusing on the intersection of gender and age.

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION

1 Introduction: Themes, Objectives and Theoretical Perspectives

Marta Choroszewicz and Tracey L. Adams

SECTION 1: HEALTH PROFESSIONS

2 Early-Career Doctors and In/Justice in Work: The Invisibility of Gender in a ‘Male’ Profession

Antero Olakivi and Sirpa Wrede

3 ‘Not that many female med students want to pursue surgery’: Gender, Ethnicity and the Life Course in Medical Students’ Specialty Choices

Tracey L. Adams and Eugena Kwon

4 Intergenerational Dynamics among Women and Men in Nursing

Marci D. Cottingham and Janette S. Dill

5 ‘Male’ficence or ‘Miss’understandings? Exploring the Relationship Between Gender, Young Healthcare Professionals, Social Media, and Professionalism.

Patricia Neville

SECTION 2: THE LEGAL PROFESSIONS

6 Launching Careers in Law: Entry to First Jobs after Law School

Fiona Kay

7 Do Gender Regimes Matter?: Converging and Diverging Career Prospects among Young French and Swiss Lawyers

Isabel Boni-Le Goff, Nicky Le Feuvre, Grégoire Mallard, Eléonore Lépinard & Sandrine Morel

8 A Life Course Approach to Workplace Discrimination and Employment: Evidence from a U.S. National Sample of Women and Men Lawyers

Gabriele Plickert

9 Fathers in Private Law Practice in Finland: Reconciling Work and Family Life for Male Lawyers from Different Generations

Marta Choroszewicz

SECTION 3: FURTHER PROFESSIONS

10 40 Years of Gender Inequality among Men and Women in High-Prestige occupations–Does the Story Differ among the Young?

Charlotta Magnusson and Magnus Nermo

11 Age-Gender Relations in the Academic Profession: Putting the Challenges of Early Career　Academics into Context

Jeff Hearn and Liisa Husu

12 A Young Man’s Game: Age and Gender in Technology Jobs

Christianne Marie Corbett

13 Women in Engineering: Experiences of Discrimination across Age Cohort

Tracey L. Adams

CONCLUSIONS

14 Conclusion: Findings, Future Research and Policy Recommendations

Tracey L. Adams and Marta Choroszewicz

O autorze

Marta Choroszewicz, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher in sociology at the University of Eastern Finland. She completed her PhD on career experiences of women in the legal profession in Finland and Poland. She is currently involved in two projects. The first project explores the links between mobile technologies, intersection of gender and age, work-family reconciliation and career progress in the legal profession. The second project, Data-Driven Society in the Making, focuses on the use of digital data and learning algorithms in healthcare and social welfare services in Finland.

Tracey L Adams is a sociologist at the University of Western Ontario, Canada who specializes in the sociology of work, occupations and professions.　Within this broad area, she has two primary areas of research. The first explores work and social inequality, with a focus on gender, in intersection with class, race, and age.　 The second research area is professional work in Canada. This research pays particular attention to professional regulation, profession creation, professional change, and inter-professional relations.