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This paper investigates why female employees are overrepresented in the private nonprofit sector. Using the 1977 Quality of Employment Survey, the author determines the importance of occupational locus and compensation structure as explanations for the large number of women in the sector. While occupational locus does contribute to the large number of women in the sector, the structure of nonprofit compensation is also an important factor in drawing women to the sector. Controlling for differences in compensation patterns of for-profit and nonprofit firms, women are not more likely than men to work in the nonprofit sector. Copyright 1990 by MIT Press.
Anne Preston (Thu,) studied this question.