Pushing Back Against Power: Using a Multilevel Power Lens to Understand Intersectionality in the Workplace

Null effects of age and gender on worker well-being, work-family conflict and performance while working remotely during the Covid-19 pandemic

“…Indeed, although intersectionality has been studied extensively by scholars in fields such as social psychology and critical management, there is a dearth of empirical studies in work psychology. Illustratively, a theoretical review of qualitative studies in management on intersectionality found 153 published articles on the topic (Thatcher et al, 2023), but a metaanalysis of workplace prejudice found only three published studies on intersectionality, with none on age (Jones et al, 2017). Given very different stereotypes that older and younger men and women are subject to (Marcus and Fritzsche, 2015), and given that older women report lower well-being and more discrimination at work than other age/gender groups (Marcus et al, 2019a;Reeves et al, 2021), this is an important issue to address.…”