INTRODUCTION} Empirical studies on occupational segregation often note with surprise that while the labor force participation of women and men has become much more similar and in some countries wage differentials have become significantly smaller during the last decades, occupational segregation still lingers on. The fact that the increasing labor force participation of women has not led to a corresponding integration of men and women in occupation is considered something of a paradox.2 My own work for Sweden shows that while the labor force participation rates for women aged 20 to 64 increased from 54 percent in 1963 to 85 percent in 1990, occupational segregation as measured by a dissimilarity index3 for the three-digit level of the occupational distribution fell from 75 percent in 1960 to only 65 percent in 1990 Gonung 1993). Thus, increased labor force participation for women does seem to have been accompanied by increased occupational integration, but to a significantly lesser degree.