爲了增進瞭解台灣社會不平等的結構特性，這個硏究記要採用圖形和多元迴 歸分析等方法，以量化圖像呈現了台灣勞力市場社會經濟地位的差序層級，並進 而評估性別的影響力。這整個硏究的核心問題是圍繞著兩個測量社會經濟地位的 指標而發展的：其中一個測量是針對社會經濟地位取得的客觀變異而設計的：另 一個測量則著重於地位成就是相對而非絕對的觀點而設計。初步分析的結果顯示， 正如作者所預期的，採用那一種測量社會經濟地位的指標，會很明顯的影響到社 會經濟地位的分配和兩性的相對地位等議題的硏究結果。當採用傳統的社會經濟 地位指標時，和美國社會所分配的硏究結果一致：台灣社會的兩性社會經濟地位 的差異並不明顯。而且由於女性集中在中層的職業群的緣故，女性還顯得比男性 佔優勢。然而，當採取相對地位取得的觀點時，女性的劣勢地位就顯得特別突出， 強烈的支持早爲人所共同體會的生活經驗：相對於同資格的男性，女性在物質報 酬上屈居於劣勢的地位。

The purpose of this note is to increase our understanding of the structure of inequality in Taiwan by providing a quantitative portrait of the socioeconomic hierarchies in the labor market. Using both graphical method and multiple regression, this research note describes the hierarchies of socioeconomic status (SES) in Taiwan and evaluates the extent to which the hierarchies depend on gender. Central to the study are two new measures of SES designed (a) to capture objective variation in socioeconomic attainment and (b) to operationalize the structuralist emphasis that achievement is largely relative rather than absolute. As expected, the distribution of SES and the relative standings of men and women depend on the measure of SES used. Similar to previous findings for the U.S., there are little sex differences in SES according to a conventional socioeconomic index for occupations in Taiwan. If anything, women appear to have an advantage over men by virtue of a concentration in the middle range occupations. When relative achievement is taken into account, a notable female disadvantage emerges, reflecting womens well-known disadvantage in earnings relative to comparable men.