“Occupational segregation trends in Canada” (2020-2024) & “Firm segregation of women, racialized people, and immigrants” (2025-present)
Monica Boyd (University of Toronto), Feng Hou (Statistics Canada) and I are tracking occupational and firm-level segregation trends by gender, race, and migrant status in Canada. Using Census and administrative data and various measures of segregation, we revisited the topic of gender occupational segregation, which has stalled in the 2000s in Canada. We also provide new insights into contemporary occupational/firm segregation patterns by gender, race, and migrant status in three emerging sources of inequality: motherhood, part-time/full-time work status, and migrant entry class.
This project has received a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grant ($176,800). Previously, this research project was funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant ($67,900).
To date, we have published and presented our preliminary results in:
Publication:
Kaida, L. and M. Boyd. (2022) “Revisiting Gender Occupational Segregation Trends in Canada: 1991-2016” Canadian Review of Sociology 59(S1): 4-25.
Presentations:
Kaida, L., M. Boyd, and S. Dubash. “Occupational segregation of black and white immigrants in Canada: Results from the 2021 Canadian census” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, QC, August 9-13, 2024.
Kaida, L., M. Boyd, and S. Dubash. “Black-White Occupational Segregation in Canada, 2021: What do we know.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Population Society, Montreal, QC, June 18-20, 2024.
Boyd, M., L. Kaida, L. Chai, and D. Singh. “Gender Occupational Segregation Today: Essentialism and Nativity at Work” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, Columbus, OH, April 18-20, 2024.
Kaida, L. and M. Boyd “Same results but different mechanisms? Occupational segregation of blacks and whites in Canadian cities” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, New Orleans, April 12-15, 2023.
Kaida, L. and M. Boyd “Canadian trends in the occupational segregation of immigrants” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Sociological Association, online, May 16-20, 2022.
Kaida, L. 2022. “Revisiting gender occupational segregation trends in Canada, 1991-2016” Invited talk for the Sociology speaker series, Memorial University of Newfoundland online, February 16, 2022.
Kaida, L. 2021. “Revisiting gender occupational segregation trends in Canada, 1991-2016” Invited talk for the Sociology seminar series, McGill University, online, October 22, 2021.
Kaida, L. and M. Boyd 2021. “Revisiting Gender Occupational Trends in Canada” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Population Society, online, May 18-21, 2021.
For more details on this project, please visit our project website: Occupational Segregation Trends in Canada.