thefactthat there are more men than women doing onetypeofjoband more women than men doing anothertypeofjob:Horizontalsegregationariseswhen men and women do differenttypesofwork:heavymanuallabouris usually done by men, forexample.Comparevertical segregation(Definition ofhorizontal segregationfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofhorizontal segregation
horizontal segregationOccupational gender segregation can be understood to contain two components or dimensions;horizontalsegregationand vertical segregation.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Horizontalsegregationis more resistant to change than vertical segregation because it plays to our basic understandings of gender roles.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Horizontalsegregationoccurs when certain occupations are more female intensive.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Horizontalsegregation, however, is more resistant to change from simply modern egalitarian pressures.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The principles of vertical andhorizontalsegregationthat operated were always mediated by speci?c factors in a particular workplace .From theCambridge English CorpusThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/horizontal-segregation##
