This thesis analyzes discrimination against women on labor market and stresses the influence of social values on the allocation of labor. This influence can be observed in job segregation itself and in special working conditions associated with typically female jobs. This influence is part of a mechanism of job rationing. / All social institutions (churches, family, political parties...) share a common history characterized by a strict vision of sex-role segregation. The roles of men and women in the labour market, an important social institution, will reflect this sex-role segregation. / Job segregation has long been viewed by many economists as an exogenous phenomenon... a matter of "tastes". But in this thesis, it is suggested that job segregation, as well as other aspects of the treatment of women on the labor market, is a rationale response by society to job scarcity. / Working conditions associated with typically female jobs, for example, are not technologically determined but are part of a mechanism of job rationing: in maintaining women's instability on labor market, low wages and short job ladders induce women to leave the labor market when they are no longer wanted. The evolution of women's participation rates shows the relationship between social values dealing with paid work for women and the needs of female labor force. / This vision of the labor market is corroborated by an analysis of working conditions in Montreal office jobs. Detailed data for eight Montreal firms were used in this research. The results indicate that to understand the treatment of women office workers, it is important to distinguish between two groups of firms: those where most office workers are males and those where most are females. In the male dominated firms female workers enjoy much better wages and other working conditions. And, as a result, female labor turnover is apparently not different from male labor turnover in these firms.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.76730 |
| Date | January 1983 |
| Creators | Dussault, Ginette. |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | French |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Economics.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 000193842, proquestno: AAINK66576, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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