Men’s Work, Women’s Work? Occupational Sex Ratios and Health

In this chapter we review the growing literature from organizational theorists that considers the interrelationships between gender, sexuality, and power in the workplace (and specifically that which focuses on vertical and horizontal segregation by gender). This body of literature has remained largely separate from the literature on gender and health to date. We wish to argue that the interrelationship between gender, sexuality, and power may provide useful insights to mechanisms that link men’s and women’s differential experiences of paid work as at least part of the explanation for gendered patterns of health, including heart disease.