Filed under “sexism”

…it was sexist when I got here

I find the concept of feminization—how the presence or predominance of women in certain roles or occupations affect those roles and occupations, their legitimacy, compensation, etc.—to be fascinating and directly affect areas I work in (nonprofits, service, social media). Below is the abstract from a paper presented to the American Sociological Association by Paula England, [...]

Social media is women’s work

Some new commentary on the evolving nature of women’s work, as a follow-up to comments on gender-driven compensation in social work: .…as the social media world becomes more and more female-driven (after all, social media power  users tend to be female) will it become “demoted” in the tech industry, seen as a “soft” profession with lower [...]