Parties, Unions, Policies and Occupational Sex Segregation in the United States

摘要: We utilize the 2000 Equal Employment Opportunity file of U.S. Census and various secondary resources to determine if party control, union density states' anti-discrimination family leave policy legacies affect levels occupational sex segregation across large counties. Our findings offer a puzzle political sociologists because two theories that are typically pitted against one another (Power Resource Theory vs. Liberal Economic Theory) predict result in comparable outcomes. Indeed, as suggested by Social Democratic Theory, sub-national United States have lower when Party unions strong, policies mechanism through which these states maintain low segregation. Yet, interestingly, is also both weak, suggesting unfettered market capitalism redresses socio-economic inequalities.