Sex segregation of work in Finland and the quality of women's work
基于1984年芬兰4502名工资劳动者的数据，研究性别隔离对女性工作质量（如自主性、非例行化、强制节奏、社交技能要求及月薪）的影响，发现女性从事与男性相同的工作时工作质量更高，但蓝领与白领女性存在差异。
Abstract The Finnish labor market is sharply segregated by sex. This is a statistically well‐documented fact and holds true for all Western European market economies. The aim of this article was to find out whether women profit (regarding the quality of their work) from performing the same sort of work as men. The qualitative aspects of work were the following: autonomy at work; lack of routinization of work; the compulsory rhythm of work; and the demands for social skills. We also analyzed monthly pay and its variation according to functional segregation of work. The empirical data came from the Finnish Study on Working Conditions (1984) which is a representative sample of the Finnish wage‐earning population with 4502 persons of whom 48 per cent were women and 52 per cent men. Our results indicate that women often profit from the fact that they perform the same sort of work as men. This profit was more apparent for white‐collar than for blue‐collar women. For men the effects of segregation on job characteristics were the opposite. They often profit from sex segregated work. Social status played a major role regarding the qualitative aspects of work.