• Projects
    • Canadian Trends in Occupational Segregation since 1991
      • Trends by Gender
      • Trends by Race & Ethnicity
      • Trends by Migrant Status
    • Technical Reports
      • Measures of Occupational Segregation
      • Harmonizing Occupational Segregation Measures
  • Research Team
    • Monica Boyd, PhD
    • Lisa Kaida, PhD
  • Publications and Presentations
  • Research Updates

Occupational Segregation Trends in Canada

Publications and Presentations

Results have been presented in peer-reviewed publications and at several conferences, focusing on three main themes: gender, race & ethnicity, and migrant status

Publications

Lisa Kaida and Monica Boyd. 2022. Revisiting Gender Occupational Segregation Trends in Canada: 1991–2016. Canadian Sociological Review, 59 (S1): 4-25. http://doi.org/10.1111/cars.12392

Presentations

Lisa Kaida and Monica Boyd. 2021.Revisiting gender occupational segregation trends in Canada. Presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Population Society, on-line presentation. May 18-21.

Lisa Kaida and Monica Boyd 2022. Canadian Trends in the Occupational Segregation of Immigrants. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Sociological Association (on-line conference).

Lisa Kaida and Monica Boyd. 2023. “Same Results but Different Mechanisms? Occupational Segregation of Blacks and Whites in Canadian Cities” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, New Orleans, April 12-15.

Monica Boyd, Lisa Kaida, Lei Chai, and Diana Singh. 2024. “Gender Occupational Segregation Today: Essentialism and Nativity at Work” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, Columbus, OH, April 18-20.

Lisa Kaida, Monica Boyd, and Soli Dubash. 2024. “Black-White Occupational Segregation in Canada, 2021: What do we know.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Population Society, Montreal, QC, June 18-20.

Lisa Kaida, Monica Boyd, and Soli Dubash. 2024. “Occupational segregation of black and white immigrants in Canada: Results from the 2021 Canadian census” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, QC, August 9-13.

Invited Talks

Lisa Kaida. 2022. “Revisiting Gender Occupational Segregation Trends in Canada, 1991- 2016” Invited talk for the Sociology speaker series, Memorial University, online, February 16

Lisa Kaida. 2021. “Revisiting Gender Occupational Segregation Trends in Canada, 1991-2016” Invited talk for the Sociology seminar series, McGill University, online, Oct 22.

Earlier Background Material

Monica Boyd. 1992. Change or Stability? Sex Segregation in Canada’s Service Economy, 1971-1986.  Presented at a conference on The Transformation of Work and the Renewal of Sociology, University of Montreal, March 13-15, 1992. Published as  working paper 92-9, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Monica Boyd. 1983. Occupational Segregation: Research Issues and Data Requirements. Pp. 135-200 in Mary Kinnear and Greg Mason (eds.), Women and Work. Available from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, 255 Albert Street, P.O. Box 1610, Ottawa, Canada KlP 6G4. Alternative publisher:  Winnipeg: University of Winnipeg Institute for Social and Economic Research, 1983.

Monica Boyd. 1982. Occupational Segregation: A Review. Labour Canada (Women’s Bureau), Sexual Equality in the Workplace. Ottawa: Ministry of Supply and Services. Catalogue No. L38- 36/1982E

This webpage draws on research supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Occupational Segregation Trends in Canada is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.