The Failure of Human Capital Theory to Explain Occupational Sex Segregation
检验了Polachek关于职业性别隔离的理论预测，发现数据不支持：女性选择女性主导职业并不会因中断工作而受到更少惩罚，持续就业的女性也不更可能进入男性主导职业，因此人力资本理论无法解释职业性别隔离。
Predictions from Polachek's theory explaining occupational sex segregation are tested and found to be false. The NLS data do not show that women are penalized less for time spent out of the labor force if they choose predominantly female occupations than if they choose occupations more typical for males. Thus, there is no evidence that plans for intermittent employment make women's choice of traditionally female occupations economically rational. It is not surprising, then, that NLS women with more continuous employment histories are no more apt to be in predominantly male occupations than women who have been employed less continuously. I conclude that human capital theory has not generated an explanation of occupational sex segregation that fits the evidence.