ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses how some men gain at work and how this is sometimes at the expense of some women. It analyzes the gendered nature of employment through an analysis of men’s overrepresentation in top of employment (TOP) and dangerous (DAD) jobs, their advantages in TOP and middle safe, lower-income, caring employment (SLICE) jobs, and their disadvantage of over employment in DAD jobs. The chapter argues that men at work face the same issues as men in other social institutions: men are the big winners and the big losers in work. The self-segregation of women away from hazard and into the relative safety of SLICE jobs is the other side of the gender inequality coin. Feminist sociologist, Catherine Hakim, argues that one reason for men’s overrepresentation in TOP jobs is that men prefer to sacrifice family for the sake of career in greater numbers than women prefer to sacrifice family for the sake of career.
