Considerable research suggests that predominantly female occupations pay less, even controlling for individual and workplace characteristics.

During this time, she tried to maintain a low profile in spite of working as a mechanic, an atypical female occupation then and now.

This education also accentuated the class divide in the German women's movement and further established social-work as a "female occupation".

They were engaged in female occupations, spinning and weaving, while one told stories to amuse the rest.

Understandably, there is also a concentration on traditional female occupations, especially domestic chores.

So it is normal to press men and women into stereotypical male or female occupations.

In some coastal areas basket making was a major female occupation.

This would make prostitution the fourth-largest female occupation.

She supposed Lucien went there, for the rigorous socializing seemed largely to be a female occupation.

In Britain the concentration of women workers in traditional female occupations has increased, not diminished, over the last ten years or so.