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DESCRIPTION:Sarah Kaplan\n\nUniversity of Toronto- Rotman School of Managem
 ent\n\nOccupational Gender Composition and Task Segregation in Professiona
 l Work\n\nDate: Friday\, April 10\, 2026\n	Time:10:30 AM -12:00 PM\n	Locatio
 n: Virtual (ZOOM)\n\nAll are cordially invited to attend.\n\nAttend on ZOO
 M\n\n\nAbstract:\n\nTasks are a central arena through which inequality is 
 enacted in organizations. Even when men and women hold the same occupation
 al titles\, they often perform systematically different kinds of work—a fo
 rm of intra-occupational task segregation that shapes both material and sy
 mbolic outcomes. We theorize that the extent of task segregation depends o
 n an occupation’s degree of gender integration. In historically male-domin
 ated occupations\, the presence of women can heighten rather than diminish
  the symbolic boundaries around who performs which kinds of work. Using ad
 ministrative billing records from over 20\,000 physicians in 16 more or le
 ss gender-integrated specialties (occupations) in Ontario\, Canada’s unive
 rsal healthcare system\, we analyze more than 700 medical procedures (task
 s) over 11 years. Confirming previous research\, we find that men dispropo
 rtionately perform technically complex tasks\, while women are concentrate
 d in communicative and relational work. Yet\, surprisingly\, these divisio
 ns are most pronounced in specialties with greater female representation w
 here symbolic boundary activation may reassert distinctions between mascul
 ine and feminine forms of expertise. Our findings position tasks as a cent
 ral mechanism through which demographic composition and symbolic hierarchi
 es interact to reproduce inequality\, revealing how gender integration can
  intensify rather than erode divisions of labor within professional work.
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SUMMARY:Organizational Behavior Area Virtual Research Seminar Series: Sarah
  Kaplan
URL:/desautels/channels/event/organizational-behavior-
 area-virtual-research-seminar-series-sarah-kaplan-372223
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