  This paper aims to evaluate how changing patterns of sectoral gender
segregation play a role in accounting for women's employment contracts and
wages in the UK between 2005 and 2020. We then study wage differentials in
gender-specific dominated sectors. We found that the propensity of women to be
distributed differently across sectors is a major factor contributing to
explaining the differences in wages and contract opportunities. Hence, the
disproportion of women in female-dominated sectors implies contractual features
and lower wages typical of that sector, on average, for all workers. This
difference is primarily explained by "persistent discriminatory constraints",
while human capital-related characteristics play a minor role. However, wage
differentials would shrink if workers had the same potential and residual wages
as men in male-dominated sectors. Moreover, this does not happen at the top of
the wage distribution, where wage differentials among women working in
female-dominated sectors are always more pronounced than those of men.
