Migrant women in male‐dominated sectors of the labour market: a research agenda

Abstract

AbstractThere is a growing literature on female labour migration, but much of this focuses on women who move to work in labour‐market sectors where a large proportion of workers are women. This paper argues that there has been much less study of women who migrate to work in male‐dominated sectors of the labour market, and explores the nature of this lacuna within research on female migration. It then highlights the increasing presence of women migrants in the ICT sector as one example of an area that has received little study. Finally, the paper explores some reasons why a study of female migrant's experiences in male‐dominated sectors of the labour market is important, and what it can add to existing research on female migration more generally. In particular, it urges us to view gender as it intersects and overlaps with other social divisions to produce complex landscapes of female mobility. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.