ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the issues of horizontal and vertical gender segregation and questions how integrated women are into all levels of the professions. It considers the importance of inequality regimes at the organisational level including their masculine practices such as in the legal profession in New Zealand. Many national migration programs are based on attracting skilled migrants and specifically focus on skilled professional workers. The chapter investigates the everyday experiences of women and men working in different professions in different countries and importantly considers issues of insecurity, masculine cultures and intersectionality. It discusses the experience of information technology (IT) workers in Sri Lanka, engineers in the UK and space engineers in Canada and finishes with a female-dominated occupation, nursing in Thailand. Linda Colley explores the gender pay gap (GPG) with respect to female-dominated public agencies and age. The chapter also presents some of the key concepts of this book.
