Share Of Men Research Articles

The Gender Recomposition of the Maquiladora Workforce in Cuidad Juhrez

This paper investigates the dynamics of gender segregation by analyzing data on the increase in men's share of assembly jobs in the Ciudad Juérez maquila industry. Gender recomposition of maquila production was a result of changes in the Mexican economy; which produced a marked increase in the demand for labor and an increase in the “relative attractiveness” (but not necessarily the absolute attractiveness) of maquiladora jobs to men.

Man's Share in His Own Evolution

Culture and the Evolution of Man Edited by M. F. Ashley Montagu. (Galaxy Book, No. 88.) Pp. xiii + 376. (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1962.) 18s. 6d.; 2.95 dollars.