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However, gender must have some significance with regard to class structure, made evident by the on-going sub-ordination of women in the workplace, in all sectors of work. As made known by Redclift and Sinclair (1991),  

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Gender and Class Gender can present problems when the employment aggregate approach is operational in the argument of class definition. Implementers of said approach such as Goldthorpe and Wright are often said to be relatively static in their approach to occupational/class structure. Goldthorpe offers the opinion that class cannot be successfully analysed to conclude any account of class structuring, particularly with regard to gender. However, gender must have some significance with regard to class structure, made evident by the on-going sub-ordination of women in the workplace, in all sectors of work. As made known by Redclift and Sinclair (1991), it is important to note that it is only since World War II that women's value as employees was fully recognized by industry due to the obvious lack of male workers. Despite this fact, women are still the victims of sexual discrimination with regard to employment and promotion within organizational environment. Noon and Blyton...

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