TY - JOUR
T1 - Gender and teachers' attrition
T2 - The occupational destination of former teachers
AU - Addi-Raccah, Audrey
PY - 2005/11
Y1 - 2005/11
N2 - Based on the resources-rewards model and on the sex segregation perspective, the study was designed to examine gender differences in teachers' attrition by comparing three groups: teachers who remained in the educational system, teachers who left the labor market, and teachers who left teaching and entered other occupations. The study also addressed the type of occupations into which former teachers moved. The sample was 2,108 teachers who participated in the censuses of 1983 and 1995 and are represented in the inter-generation dataset of the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics. The findings indicated that one-third of the teachers did not continue teaching. Most of them moved to other occupations. Gender was found to be related to teachers' attrition and to their occupational destination. The data support the sex segregation perspective and suggest that working in a female-dominated occupation has different implications for women's and men's attrition and patterns of changing occupations, which contribute to maintaining the sex segregation structure in the labor market.
AB - Based on the resources-rewards model and on the sex segregation perspective, the study was designed to examine gender differences in teachers' attrition by comparing three groups: teachers who remained in the educational system, teachers who left the labor market, and teachers who left teaching and entered other occupations. The study also addressed the type of occupations into which former teachers moved. The sample was 2,108 teachers who participated in the censuses of 1983 and 1995 and are represented in the inter-generation dataset of the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics. The findings indicated that one-third of the teachers did not continue teaching. Most of them moved to other occupations. Gender was found to be related to teachers' attrition and to their occupational destination. The data support the sex segregation perspective and suggest that working in a female-dominated occupation has different implications for women's and men's attrition and patterns of changing occupations, which contribute to maintaining the sex segregation structure in the labor market.
KW - Gender
KW - Sex segregation
KW - Teachers' attrition
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=29644436582&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11199-005-7738-z
DO - 10.1007/s11199-005-7738-z
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AN - SCOPUS:29644436582
SN - 0360-0025
VL - 53
SP - 739
EP - 752
JO - Sex Roles
JF - Sex Roles
IS - 9-10
ER -