ABSTRACT
Sex segregation in the workplace refers to women's and men's concentration in different occupations, industries, jobs, and levels in workplace hierarchies. More broadly, sex segregation constitutes a sexual division of paid labor in which men and women do different tasks, or the same tasks under different names or at different times and places. People's race and sometimes their ethnicity and age are also bases for differentiation at work, so workplaces are segregated by sex, race, and ethnicity, as well as other characteristics. The assignment of jobs based on workers' sex, race, and ethnicity is one of the most enduring features of work in industrialized societies and a mainstay in preserving larger systems of inequality.
