Analysis of Organizational Structure and Gender Stratification

9310557 LEICHT过去20年来，工作场所最重要的发展之一是大量妇女进入专业工作。 这是在对官僚组织中男女专业机会差别日益不满的背景下发生的。 尽管公众认识到这一问题，但对男女专业人员的职业很少有系统的研究，对男女专业人员的职业何时以及如何出现分歧也不甚了解。 该项目将回答有关专业人员中性别分层的基本问题，例如导致男女专业人员更换工作的过程以及导致他们接受具有不同特点的公司职位的劳动力市场力量。 在扩大妇女在专业领域的机会的背景下，这一信息对于理解工作场所的歧视至关重要。 这项研究通过研究美国大公司法律的部门的职业发展，考察了职业男性和女性机会的增长和差异。 该项目将分两个阶段进行。 第一阶段将试图确定公司和法律的部门的哪些特点导致妇女高度集中在某些部门和职务上。 该项目的第二阶段将研究影响个别部门成员工作变动的因素，重点是早期职业活动对男女专业人员流动的影响。 本项目的数据将取自公司法律顾问的法律和商业指南（1980-1992年）的连续几期，并补充以其他出版来源提供的公司一级的信息。 ***

9310557 LEICHT One of the most important developments in the workplace over the past twenty years has been the movement of large numbers of women into professional work. This has occurred in a context of growing dissatisfaction with differences in professional opportunities available to men and women in bureaucratic organizations. In spite of the public recognition this problem has received, there has been little systematic study of careers among male and female professionals and little understanding of when and how the careers of male and female professionals diverge. This project will provide answers to fundamental questions regarding gender stratification among professionals, such as the processes that lead male and female professionals to change jobs and the labor market forces that lead them to accept positions in corporations with different characteristics. This information will be of vital importance for understanding workplace discrimination in a context of expanding opportunities for women in the professions. The study examines the growth and divergence of opportunities for professional men and women by studying career development within corporate legal departments in large U.S. corporations. The project will be conducted in two phases. The first phase will attempt to determine what characteristics of corporations and legal departments lead to high concentrations of women within certain departments and job titles. The second phase of the project will look at factors affecting job changes among individual department members, focusing on the effects of early career events on the movements of male and female professionals. The data for this project will be taken from successive waves of the Law and Business Directory of Corporate Counsel (1980-1992) and be supplemented with corporation level information provided by other published sources. ***