“…The white-collar affinity effect AF1 is stronger for men than for women and the general inheritance effect IN1 is also stronger for men, although to a smaller extent (with p = 0:060). As regards the first of these differences, what should be noted is that women, even if from white- collar backgrounds, tend to be concentrated in their own employment in the lowest white-collar status groups, mainly those of routine office and sales workers (Chan and Goldthorpe (2004), pages 388-389) and are more likely than men to remain at this level within the white-collar world during their working lives rather than achieving upward mobility-as, say, from class 3 to class 1 or 2 positions (Bukodi et al, 2016a). As regards the second difference, a general tendency exists-and is found in our own data (the results are available on request)-for greater class immobility to occur among men than among women because of a stronger propensity for men to follow their fathers in specific occupations than for women to follow either their fathers or their mothers; or, we could say, men tend to be more favoured by, or responsive to, family occupational traditions (Jonsson et al, 2009;Erikson et al, 2012).…”