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Paula England is an American sociologist whose research focuses on gender inequality, labor markets, families, sexuality, and care work. She has examined the gender pay gap, occupational segregation, and the lower compensation often attached to jobs performed predominantly by women. Her scholarship connects economic and sociological analysis and is particularly relevant to researchers studying how employment structures, cultural expectations, and family arrangements reproduce inequality.
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What is Paula England's devaluation theory?
England's research argues that work associated with women is often paid less partly because female-coded labor is culturally undervalued. This helps explain low wages in care occupations even when the work requires substantial skill and responsibility.
What did Paula England find about occupational gender segregation?
Her work shows that women and men remain concentrated in different jobs and that movement into male-dominated occupations has been uneven. She has also examined how an occupation's pay and status can change as its gender composition shifts.
How does Paula England study the gender pay gap?
England examines occupational sorting, family responsibilities, discrimination, and the lower rewards attached to care work. Her approach treats the pay gap as a product of institutions and labor markets, not merely different individual choices.
What is the "stalled gender revolution" in Paula England's work?
The phrase describes how women's movement into paid employment and traditionally male roles advanced faster than men's movement into unpaid care and traditionally female roles. England used this imbalance to explain why progress toward gender equality slowed.
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