Maintaining Masculinity: Men who do ‘Women's Work’
研究男性进入传统女性职业后如何应对性别身份挑战，通过重构职业认知或重新定义男性气质来协调身份冲突，对理解劳动力市场去隔离化有启示。
This paper examines the ways in which men manage their gender identity on entry into occupations traditionally undertaken by women. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with men in non‐traditional occupations the paper demonstrates how men who enter “female” occupations face a range of challenges to their sense of ‘masculinity’. It is argued that gender identity and occupational identity become misaligned during this transition. The paper shows how men attempt to realign these two identities, either by a reconstruction or rationalization of the nature of their occupations, or by renegotiation of their own conception of what it means to be a man. The article concludes that the first of these approaches has important implications for the nature of occupations and the way in which work is carried out, while the second may be one of the key processes at work in the desegregation of the labour market.