This project is the brainchild of Professor Lisa Kaida (PI) and Professor Monica Boyd (Co-PI).
Two research objectives are: 1. To track temporal trends in occupational segregation with respect to gender, race, and migrant status since the early 1990s and to examine variations in the trends for public and private sectors of employment; 2. To provide new insights into contemporary occupational segregation patterns by gender, race, and migrant status in three emerging sources of inequality: motherhood, part-time/ full-time work status, and migrant entry class.
The project adopts an intercategorical approach to study intersections of disadvantages associated with gender, race, and migrant status. Data are taken from the 1991-2016 Census of Canada. The project also will assess the impact of COVID19 when 2021 data become available.
Bridging the University of Toronto (Monica Boyd, Department of Sociology) and McMaster University (Lisa Kaida, Department of Sociology), this project received SSHRC funding in summer 2020.
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