For many years, women have been urged to enter non-traditional areas of employment to improve their economic prospects. During the 1970s and 1980s, Canadian women did precisely that, parlaying higher levels of education and labour force participation into a growing presence in a diverse range of...

The impact of new technologies on clerical workers has been intensely debated. This paper assesses current research on the key issues of employment, skill, and quality of working life; drawing implications for Canadian clerical workers. The author argues that a reliance on deterministic research...

As more women have joined the work force over the last twenty years, they have been entering traditionally male occupations. And to a lesser degree, men have been choosing careers in female-dominated occupations. This study looks at the extent of these moves into non-traditional occupations

This paper examines how socio-demographic, educational, work attitude, and labour market characteristics contribute to gender differences in the earnings and promotion opportunities of 1985 university graduates employed full-time one year after graduating. Even after accounting for the effects...