%0 Journal Article
%T Occupational Prestige and Gender
%A Guillermo Garc¨ªa-Mart¨ªn
%A Inmaculada Garc¨ªa-Mainar
%A V¨ªctor M Montuenga
%J Work, Employment and Society
%@ 1469-8722
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0950017017730528
%X The purpose of this article is to determine whether there is a relationship between the proportion of women working in an occupation and the prestige assigned to that occupation. Based on a representative sample of Spanish employees from the Spanish Quality of Working Life Survey, pooled-sample data (2007¨C2010) are used to show that occupations with larger shares of women present lower prestige, controlling for a set of objective individual and work-related variables, and self-assessed indicators of working conditions. However, the results obtained do not support the devaluation theory since an inverted-U relationship between female share and occupational prestige is observed. This conclusion holds even after passing a battery of robustness checks
%K gender differences
%K gender-occupational segregation
%K occupational prestige
%K Spain
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0950017017730528