“Pay and Working Conditions: When Being a Man or a Woman is Less Important than the Sex of Your Co-workers”
A talk by Dr. Brendan Burchell, University of Cambridge
Wednesday November 12 at 1 pm in Welch Hall 207
Description:
This presentation uses data visualisation to pick apart the effects of an employee’s own sex, social class and the gendering of the occupation to get a detailed understanding of their impact on pay, hours of work and working conditions. In many cases being female has less impact on job quality than working in a feminized environment. Hidden and complex patterns in the data are discovered through careful graphing of the data.
Biography:
Dr Brendan Burchell is a Reader in the Social Sciences in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Magdalene College. His research interests include gender differences in working conditions, and aspects of labour markets that impinge upon individual wellbeing such as job insecurity and work intensity, zero hours contracts and unemployment.
This talk is sponsored by the Centre for Labour Studies at Brock University.
