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FLIGHT PATHS AND REVOLVING DOORS: A CASE STUDY OF GENDER DESEGREGATION IN PHARMACY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1999

Julian Tanner ,
Rhonda Cockerill ,
Jan Barnsley  and
A. Paul Williams
Julian Tanner
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Scarborough, Canada
Rhonda Cockerill
Affiliation:
Department of Health Administration, 12 Queens Park Crescent West, 2nd Floor, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 1A8
Jan Barnsley
Affiliation:
Department of Health Administration, 12 Queens Park Crescent West, 2nd Floor, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 1A8
A. Paul Williams
Affiliation:
Department of Health Administration, 12 Queens Park Crescent West, 2nd Floor, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 1A8
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Abstract

This paper examines practitioner reactions to occupational de-segregation in pharmacy – the effects, for women and men, of a rapid female entry into the profession. The topic is documented in terms of processes of integration, ghettoisation, and re-segregation. With data collected from licensed pharmacists in Ontario, Canada, we find little evidence of either genuine gender integration in the profession or gender re-segregation precipitated by collective male discontent. While female practitioners are more positive in their evaluation of their jobs and their profession, there is no indication that current satisfaction and dissatisfaction is a harbinger of male – or female – flight from pharmacy. We discuss these findings in the light of arguments about a job and gender queue in the labour market.

Type
Research Article
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Work, Employment and Society , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , June 1999 , pp. 275 - 293
Copyright
1999 BSA Publications Ltd

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