OCCUPATIONAL GENDER SEGREGATION IN THE BRAZILIAN PUBLIC SECTOR BETWEEN 1995 AND 2008

Authors

  • Daniela Verzola Vaz
  • Rodolfo Hoffmann

Abstract

Female presence in the Brazilian public service is concentrated in the state and municipal governaments and in activities in the social areas — such as education, health and social security — considered as “feminine”.This paper has the objective of showing that such distribution pattern presented by women among occupationsresults in a high level of occupational segregation in public organizations. It is also shown that the degree ofsegregation varies substantially across the three branches of government, as a consequence of the specializationof each of them in different tasks. Finally, the computation of the dissimilarity and the Gini indices between1995 and 2008 suggests that segregation has been increasing among the state governament workforce, but decreasing in the central and municipal public sectors.

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Vaz, D. V., & Hoffmann, R. (2013). OCCUPATIONAL GENDER SEGREGATION IN THE BRAZILIAN PUBLIC SECTOR BETWEEN 1995 AND 2008. Revista Da ABET, 10(1). Retrieved from https://periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/abet/article/view/15546