Gender, Race, and Affirmative Action

Steinbugler, Amy C.; Press, Julie E.; Dias, Janice Johnson

doi:10.1177/0891243206293299

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“…In this way, an intersectionality analysis captures several levels of difference. In particular, it reveals how intersecting forms of discrimination and oppression create opportunities and social and material benefits for those "who enjoy normative or non-marginalized statuses such as Whiteness, maleness, heterosexuality, or upper class status"[34] (p. 808).…”

Section: Intersectionalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the promises of intersectionality for advancing women's health research

Hankivsky

Reid

Cormier

et al. 2010

Int J Equity Health

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Women's health research strives to make change. It seeks to produce knowledge that promotes action on the variety of factors that affect women's lives and their health. As part of this general movement, important strides have been made to raise awareness of the health effects of sex and gender. The resultant base of knowledge has been used to inform health research, policy, and practice. Increasingly, however, the need to pay better attention to the inequities among women that are caused by racism, colonialism, ethnocentrism, heterosexism, and able-bodism, is confronting feminist health researchers and activists. Researchers are seeking new conceptual frameworks that can transform the design of research to produce knowledge that captures how systems of discrimination or subordination overlap and "articulate" with one another. An emerging paradigm for women's health research is intersectionality. Intersectionality places an explicit focus on differences among groups and seeks to illuminate various interacting social factors that affect human lives, including social locations, health status, and quality of life. This paper will draw on recently emerging intersectionality research in the Canadian women's health context in order to explore the promises and practical challenges of the processes involved in applying an intersectionality paradigm. We begin with a brief overview of why the need for an intersectionality approach has emerged within the context of women's health research and introduce current thinking about how intersectionality can inform and transform health research more broadly. We then highlight novel Canadian research that is grappling with the challenges in addressing issues of difference and diversity. In the analysis of these examples, we focus on a largely uninvestigated aspect of intersectionality research - the challenges involved in the process of initiating and developing such projects and, in particular, the meaning and significance of social locations for researchers and participants who utilize an intersectionality approach. The examples highlighted in the paper represent important shifts in the health field, demonstrating the potential of intersectionality for examining the social context of women's lives, as well as developing methods which elucidate power, create new knowledge, and have the potential to inform appropriate action to bring about positive social change.

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Section: Intersectionalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the promises of intersectionality for advancing women's health research

Hankivsky

Reid

Cormier

et al. 2010

Int J Equity Health

273

235

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“…Thus, the value of intersectional research is the ability to examine how intersecting identities create both privilege and disadvantage, yielding benefits and hindrances (or both) depending on the particular identity groups that comprise the individual as well as the social context in which certain identity groups are made salient (Collins, 1990). Across the social sciences, the intersection of identities has been shown to influence sexual harassment perceptions (Welsh, Carr, MacQuarrie, & Huntley, 2006), gender and racial stereotypes (Sesko & Biernat, 2010;Steinbugler, Press, & Dias, 2006), learning and work experiences (Kvasny, Trauth, & Morgan, 2009), as well as disparities in mental health status (Rosenfield, 2012). Across the social sciences, the intersection of identities has been shown to influence sexual harassment perceptions (Welsh, Carr, MacQuarrie, & Huntley, 2006), gender and racial stereotypes (Sesko & Biernat, 2010;Steinbugler, Press, & Dias, 2006), learning and work experiences (Kvasny, Trauth, & Morgan, 2009), as well as disparities in mental health status (Rosenfield, 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The broader psychology domain has only recently acknowledged the utility of intersectional research despite its prevalence in other related research domains. Across the social sciences, the intersection of identities has been shown to influence sexual harassment perceptions (Welsh, Carr, MacQuarrie, & Huntley, 2006), gender and racial stereotypes (Sesko & Biernat, 2010; Steinbugler, Press, & Dias, 2006), learning and work experiences (Kvasny, Trauth, & Morgan, 2009), as well as disparities in mental health status (Rosenfield, 2012). Despite these findings, the existing I-O psychology literature has largely overlooked how intersecting identities critically affect employees’ workplace experiences.…”

Section: Intersectionality Definedmentioning

confidence: 99%

I-O at a Crossroad: The Value of an Intersectional Research Approach

Weaver

Crayne

Jones

2016

Ind. Organ. Psychol.

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The focal article written by Bergman and Jean (2016) draws attention to a critical void in the industrial and organizational (I-O) psychology domain: the study of low- and medium-skill workers. Although segmenting employees based on their job status may provide new conceptualizations of employee work experiences, this approach may not provide the nuanced view necessary to fully comprehend the many ways in which employees differentially experience the workplace. Within this category of workers, experiences may vary based on employees’ race, gender, socioeconomic status (SES), or other identity-defining characteristics, and these person-specific identities may interact with one another. An intersectional research approach provides a foundation on which researchers can more fully understand how individuals’ multiple social identities interact to affect their workplace experiences. In the commentary that follows, we provide an overview of intersectional research and describe how such a perspective would lead to meaningful developments within I-O psychology.

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“…Specific locations in this matrix of intersecting social hierarchies create a unique set of experiences that involve more than the sum of their parts and reflect the multiplicative nature of intersecting oppressions (Collins, 2000 andKing, 1989). Because hierarchies of power are cross cutting, it is likely that a person will be simultaneously advantaged by certain identities and disadvantaged by others (Steinbugler, Press, Dias, 2006). For example, a Black man may experience privilege vis-à-vis his maleness but be marginalized for his race (Steinbugler, Press, and Dias, 2006).…”

Section: Intersectionality: Race and Gendermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Because hierarchies of power are cross cutting, it is likely that a person will be simultaneously advantaged by certain identities and disadvantaged by others (Steinbugler, Press, Dias, 2006). For example, a Black man may experience privilege vis-à-vis his maleness but be marginalized for his race (Steinbugler, Press, and Dias, 2006). As a result, race and gender can sometimes combine to create effects that are unique to specific gender-race-party groups that may be invisible if these interactions are viewed separately.…”

Section: Intersectionality: Race and Gendermentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender, Policies, and Politics

Barrick¹

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The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the role of gender in shaping policies and politics. In the first empirical chapter, I explore support for women candidates for elected office and positions of public authority. The chapter investigates how membership in groups defined by race and gender shapes attitudes towards women holding political office. Next, I map how the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) made it to the legislative agenda and seek to answer the question of how gender entered the discussion of violence. Using the literature on issue framing and entrepreneurship, I explore how attention to the issue of domestic violence resulted in the passage of the VAWA. The final empirical chapter examines how state supreme courts deal with women who are victims of domestic violence.

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Gender, Race, and Affirmative Action

Cited by 64 publications

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Exploring the promises of intersectionality for advancing women's health research

Exploring the promises of intersectionality for advancing women's health research

I-O at a Crossroad: The Value of an Intersectional Research Approach

Gender, Policies, and Politics

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