Explain why sociologists studying social mobility more commonly compare fathers and sons. What special problems arise when they study the social mobility of women?
What will be an ideal response?
Studying women’s mobility presents special set problems. For one, with whom do we want to compare the women workers--their mothers or their fathers? Many mothers in previous generations did not work or worked only part time or intermittently. They were not the economic mainstay or foundation of social status for their households. If the comparison is with fathers, we face the problem that women workers are distributed across occupations in a very different fashion than men, making father–daughter comparisons tricky. Women are, for example, more likely to be nurses, secretaries, sales clerks, and maids. If we see that many daughters of lower manual workers have moved “up” to white-collar work, are we looking at a difference between generations or between genders?
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