Occupational inequality and gender features in the labor market Cover Image

Професійна нерівність та гендерні особливості на ринку праці
Occupational inequality and gender features in the labor market

Author(s): Lesya Tirbakh, Galyna Chaban
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Human Resources in Economy, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Університет Григорія Сковороди в Переяславі
Keywords: employment; unemployment; economic activity of the population; gender inequality; gender policy;

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the research is the gender characteristics of the world and Ukrainian labor markets. The purpose of the work is to study gender problems in the labor market, describe the causes of women's unemployment and occupational inequality, take into account gender, conduct a structured assessment of the current state of the Ukrainian labor market, take into account the experience of women's segregation in the world. The methodological basis of the article was both general scientific and special methods of scientific knowledge. The article used scientific research methods: abstract-logical - to assess the world and Ukrainian labor market; system-structural analysis and synthesis - to identify the causes of gender inequality; analytical and computational; statistical and economic; settlement and constructive. Results of work. The article analyzes gender issues in the labor market. The causes of women's unemployment and occupational inequality are described. Taking into account gender features, the current state of the Ukrainian labor market was assessed, and the direction of solving the problem of gender inequality in Ukraine was determined. The field of application of results. The results of this study can be used in the regulation of unemployment in the labor market of Ukraine, the educational process in the teaching of the discipline "Labor Economics and socio-economic relations". Conclusions. Gender discrimination is a big problem all over the world. And this is one of the main causes of inequality in general. Nowhere in the world do women have equal opportunities in the labor market with men.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 49
  • Page Range: 120-126
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Ukrainian