Feminist

• Pamela Abott argues that there is a need to study women’s social mobility as women’s experiences of work are different from men. This led to researchers developing the Surrey scheme
• Surrey scheme:

  1.Higher professionals

  2.Employers and managers

  3.Lower professional

  4.Secretarial & clerical

  5.Supervisors & self employed manual

  6a. Sales and personal services

  6b. Skilled manual

  7. Unskilled
• In the Surrey scale, women are classified on the basis of their own occupations, whereas, in other scales, married women are often classified by their husbands occupations. The Surrey scale reflects the gendered nature of work in society today. For example, 6a is female dominated and 6b is male dominated.