Abstract
Although theoretical analysis about the roles of females leads to the expectation that occupational mobility of females should be different from that of males, an analysis of female intergenerational occupational mobility patterns on a national basis indicates essentially no differences between female and male patterns of mobility in the American occupational structure. Specifically, findings for females are: (1) occupational inheritance is greater than that expected on the assumption of statistical independence, (2) nevertheless, a large amount of mobility is present, (3) upward mobility is more frequent on a relative basis than downward mobility, (4) short distance mobility is considerably more prevalent than long distance mobility, (5) white-collar occupational categories are more concentrated in supply than are blue-collar categories, and (6) two barriers to mobility are present: between white-collar and other occupations; between blue-collar and farm occupations.
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