segregation — Social processes which result in certain individuals or social groups being kept apart with little or no interaction between them. An almost universal type of segregation is achieved by separate public toilet facilities for men and women. The… … Dictionary of sociology
occupational segregation — The division of labour, in the context of paid employment , as a result of which men and women (or members of different ethnic or religious groupings) are channelled into different types of occupational roles and tasks, such that there are two… … Dictionary of sociology
Racial segregation in the United States — is the racial segregation of facilities, services, and opportunities such as housing, education, employment, and transportation along racial lines. The expression refers primarily to the legally or socially enforced separation of African… … Wikipedia
Occupational segregation — is the distribution of groups defined by ascribed characteristics, mostly gender, across occupations. More basically, it is the concentration of a similar group of people (be they males, females, whites, blacks, etc.) in a job. Occupational… … Wikipedia
Racial segregation — Segregationist redirects here. For the short story by Isaac Asimov, see Segregationist (short story). Part of a series of articles on Racial segregation … Wikipedia
Housing Segregation — is the practice of denying African American or other minority groups equal access to housing through the process of misinformation, denial of realty and financing services, and racial steering. Misinformation can take the form of realtors or… … Wikipedia
Residential Segregation — refers to the physical separation of two groups based on residence and housing Schaeffer, Richard T. Race and Ethnicity in the United States. 4th ed. Upper Saddle River: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007. page 28] , or a form of segregation that sorts… … Wikipedia
horizontal segregation — UK US noun [U] WORKPLACE ► the fact that there are more men than women doing one type of job and more women than men doing another type of job: »Horizontal segregation arises when men and women do different types of work: heavy manual labour is… … Financial and business terms
gender segregation (in employment) — This term refers to the unequal distribution of men and women in the occupational structure sometimes also (and more accurately) called ‘occupational segregation by sex’. There are two forms: ‘vertical segregation’ describes the clustering of men … Dictionary of sociology
gender segregation — This term refers to the unequal distribution of men and women in the occupational structure sometimes also (and more accurately) called ‘occupational segregation by sex’. There are two forms: ‘vertical segregation’ describes the clustering of men … Dictionary of sociology
Occupational inequality — is the unequal treatment of people based on gender or race in the workplace. When researchers study trends in occupational inequality they usually focus on distribution or allocation pattern of groups across occupations, for example, the… … Wikipedia
