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 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.
Keywords: creative class; creative economy; creative regions; occupational gender segregation; place and gender
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: 1: Department of Sociology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA 2: School of Business, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN, USA
Publication date: 01 October 2009
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