Creativity gaps and gender gaps: women, men and place in the United States

This article situates Florida's (2002) work on creative regions in the United States in the context of a critical discussion of place and gender and investigates the gender-class structure of his most and least creative regions. It analyzes the distribution of creative class, working class and...

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Published in:Gender, place and culture : a journal of feminist geography place and culture : a journal of feminist geography, 2009-10, Vol.16 (5), p.517-533
Main Authors: Negrey, Cynthia, Rausch, Stephen D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
clase creativa
Comparative analysis
creative class
creative economy
creative regions
Creativity
Demographics
Economics of culture
economía creativa
Employment Opportunities
Gender
Gender differences
Gender differentiation
Geographic Distribution
Labor Market Segmentation
lugar y género
occupational gender segregation
Occupational Status
Occupations
Place
place and gender
Regional Differences
regiones creativas
Regions
segregación ocupacional por género
Segregation
Social classes
U.S.A
United States of America
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Summary:This article situates Florida's (2002) work on creative regions in the United States in the context of a critical discussion of place and gender and investigates the gender-class structure of his most and least creative regions. It analyzes the distribution of creative class, working class and service class occupations by gender within those 21 regions as well as earnings, household income, poverty and educational attainment using data from the US Census 2000. Women and men are compared within and across the two categories of most and least creative regions. The major finding is that the gender gap in earnings within categories of regions is larger than the creativity gap, i.e. the earnings gap within genders across regions. As new technology industries have been layered over old industries, altering spatial divisions of labor, gendered labor remains integrated in largely traditional ways.
ISSN:0966-369X
1360-0524
DOI:10.1080/09663690903148408