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Occupational sex segregation is a major structural barrier to occupational mobility for women. This study examines the influence of individual women's education, work attachment, and labour-market location on the likelihood of moving out of female-dominated occupations in the Swiss context. The study employs Cox's proportional hazards model with time-varying covariates, focusing on Swiss women, from the 1949–51 and 1959–61 cohorts in the German-speaking region of Switzerland, who entered the labour market through a female-dominated occupation. The results show that both basic and further education have an important impact on mobility across occupational sex types. Participation in advanced further training aimed at obtaining higher credentials significantly increases the chances of moving out of female-dominated occupations, whereas frequent participation in occupational updating reinforces the incumbency in such an occupation. Basic education has a strong curvilinear effect on the propensity to move out, with the apprenticeship group being the least likely to exit from a female occupation among all educational groups. The results are strongly consistent with Switzerland's specific socioeconomic and cultural environment, including its highly differentiated and vocation-oriented educational system, a tight link between education and occupational allocation, and a conservative cultural climate pertaining to gender roles.
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