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Since you like playing "gotcha", you could have looked to the end of the links, which expanded on the conclusions of the statistical study. Maybe you to could have learnt something, like, "The case-studies show that, when recruiting for sex-typed jobs, employers attempt to match some features of the job with the alleged characteristics of one of the sex"..."If tasks fail to provide a basis for sex typing, the social relations within which they are performed may still provide such a rationale"..."The hours of works form a third basis for sex typing"..."Other job features such as pay, status and prospects may also serve this purposes"..."In other words, job features work as segregation devices because they allow employer to mobilize gender stereotypes"...

Bun then, that book is probably full of ideology and sloppy reasoning itself, I suppose.


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by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 08:21:29 PM EST
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Of course they can be used as segregation means. How can anyone deny this. They allow, but it doesnt mean all employers use them.
This is why I was proposing a sort of standardized CV where requirements be mentioned precisely.  

This is a bit like free speech you know, no matter how many laws you make, people will always find a way around them to pass the message they want (see the recent Christian Vanneste's trial decision).

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by ValentinD (walentijn arobase free spot frança) on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 09:03:05 PM EST
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