Employment and gender: analysis of employers’ preferences as determinants of access to employment. The particular case of Cordoba city, Argentina
Abstract
As women began to increase their participation in the labor market, the economic
literature began to devote more attention to the differential treatment they receive.
In that sense, the discrimination by employers has been identified as one of the possible causes that might explain the differential treatment between genders
in the labor market. The purpose of the present paper is to analyze whether there
are gender preferences on the part of employers when it comes to filling a certain
position. Hence, labor demand was analyzed according to four key variables:
categories of the positions demanded, skills needed, academic level achieved, and
maximum age required. The obtained results suggest marked preferences of employers towards the male gender for covering managerial positions, gender segregation of skills and university studies requested, and more inequality for women in their access to employment according to the maximum age required.
