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With increasingly freed labor markets, China's level of occupational gender segmentation is changing under the impacts of market mechanism and female human capital investment. Using China Health and Nutrition Survey data, this paper explores the trend of occupational gender segregation from 1989 to 2009 in China's labor market, and analyzes the causes of intensifying occupational gender segmentation by focusing on labors' preferences over occupations with gender significance. The study finds that various reasons drive the males and females into their own job-gender hurdles. For example, pursuing higher income, social status and working hours are main reasons leading male occupation. Meanwhile rising in female human capital investment does not show significant relief over China's occupational gender segmentation.
With China freed labor markets, China's level of occupational gender segmentation is changing under the impacts of market mechanism and female human capital investment. Using China Health and Nutrition Survey data, this paper explores the trend of occupational gender segregation from 1989 to 2009 in China's labor market, and analyzes the causes of intensifying occupational gender segmentation by focusing on labors' preferences over occupations with gender significance. The study finds that various reasons drive the males and females into their own job-gender hurdles. For example, pursuing higher income, social status and working hours are main reasons leading male occupation. rising rising in female human capital investment does not show significant relief over China's occupational gender segmentation.