Women's Mobility in the Corporation: A Critique of the Politics of Optimism

Blum, Linda M.; Smith, Vicki

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“…The number of women in executive, administrative, and managerial occupations has increased considerably since 1970, but the proportion of women employed as top level managers is still small (Billing and Alvesson, 1989;Blum and Smith, 1988;Morrison, White and van Velsor, 1992). Yet women compose nearly half the workforce (Morrison et al, 1992), and demographic estimates in the U.S. indicate that in the next decade, more than 60% of all net additions to the workforce will be women (Cox and Harquail, 1991).…”

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“…Some researchers have focused on differences between women and men, suggesting that women have less education, seniority, training, and experience (Cox and Harquail, 1991;Morrison and von Glinow, 1990). Others have focused on sex-role socialization which may lead to feminine personality traits that are at odds with corporate values and accepted management styles (Blum and Smith, 1988;Childress, 1986). There is some evidence to suggest that women tend to explore and enter a restricted range of occupations (Brooks, 1988;Cassidy and Warren, 1991), and that they tend to acquire higher education or accept positions in areas which seldom lead to top managerial positions (Billing and Alvesson, 1989;Cox and Harquail, 1991).…”

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Work experiences and career and job satisfaction among professional and managerial women in Norway

Richardsen

Mikkelsen

Burke

1997

Scandinavian Journal of Management

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--Research suggests that women may be underrepresented in top management positions because of organizational policies and practices that subtly influence their career paths. This survey of 191 professional and managerial women in Norway investigated the relationships among organizational supports (e.g. support and encouragement, training and development), work pressures (e.g. hours worked, work-family conflict), and work outcomes such as career and job satisfaction. Results indicated that work pressures were significantly related to satisfaction, but not to perceived opportunities for career progress. The organizational supports were positively correlated with all the work outcomes, indicating that women were more satisfied with both career and job when organizational supports were present. When combined with individual characteristics and work pressures in regression analyses, organizational supports still made positive contributions to satisfaction at work. The findings were generally consistent with results of a Canadian study of managerial women. © 1997

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Work experiences and career and job satisfaction among professional and managerial women in Norway

Richardsen

Mikkelsen

Burke

1997

Scandinavian Journal of Management

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“…Recent trends in IT towards globalization have also hampered women's chances of getting hired for positions that require travel. This is so because women are percieved to be family-oriented and unwilling to travel (Mum and Smith, 1988). Lack of role models and mentors, the levels of experience that women bring to academia and the marketplace are additional structural factors, We argue here that the industry barriers specific to IT, such as male orientation of the software, can be subsumed by structural factors.…”

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“…This paper suggests that there are a combination of structural and social factors which may have a cumulative effect on the path that women take in Information Technology, Factors such as male-oriented software, hacker-culture, social conditioning, the absence of role models and mentoring in the field, and current trends in organizational and institutional change are considered as possible contributors to an observable vertical and horizontal segregation (Blum and Smith, 1988). As a cautionary note, it is not the goal of this paper to imply that IT field is more discriminatory than any other field but merely to propose a testable model of barriers which may exist in the field.…”

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Information technology and the gender factor

Ahuja

1995

Proceedings of the 1995 ACM SIGCPR Conference on Supporting Teams, Groups, and Learning Inside and Outside the IS Function Rein

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It is posited that computer systems will be more effective if women are represented equally in the design teams, project steering committees, and at the upper echelons of IS management. A model of barriers faced by women in the field of 'Information Technology is presented. Three distinct life-stages of early education, career-choices and career advancement are analyzed. At each stage, effects of social and structural factors, which may act as barriers are identified and discussed. Interaction of social and structural factors at each stage is discussed. Implications for management are outlined.

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“…Moreover, Martin and Halverson (1981) consider gender stereotype as one type of "subjective perception of what a man or woman should be or how people should behave" (p. 29). Blum and Smith's (1988) study holds that women are more likely to be labeled as stereotypes because they are known to be "family focused" and "unwilling to travel", so they are not eager to accept an opportunity for more promotions (p. 6). For instance, Eagly and Carau (2002) assert that women are perceived less favorably with respect to their conspicuous capabilities and achievements.…”

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Evaluating Gender-Bias in the Iranian Pre-University English Textbooks

Roohani

Zarei

2013

Indonesian J. Appl. Linguist

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Textbooks can affect learners' attitudes, viewpoints, and their choice of language in second/foreign language (L2) communication. The various ways in which the people are displayed in communication may affect students' viewpoints. This study was an attempt to examine several potential areas of gender-bias in the representation of women and men in the pre-university English textbook, an English language teaching (ELT) textbook with two volumes taught in the high schools of Iran. To evaluate this textbook, content analysis was done in terms of gender-bias, gender-neutral, male-generics, and the firstness in the reading texts, instructions, exercises and illustrations. The frequency and percentages of names, nouns, pronouns and pictures attributed to each gender (i.e., males and females) were obtained and chi-square tests were carried out. In general, names, nouns and pictures pertinent to males outnumbered those attributed to females. Besides, there was a statistically significant difference between males and females in the two volumes of the pre-university textbook in terms of the above features. Also, male-oriented terms came first more frequently. However, there was not a statistically significant difference between male and female pronouns between the two volumes, though the percentage of male pronouns was higher. Moreover, the textbook included many gender-neutral nouns and pronouns not having any gender orientations. Findings indicated that the Iranian pre-university English textbook was somehow male-oriented and gender-biased as regards names, nouns, firstness and pictures associated with them though great efforts were made to avoid specific gender orientations.Keywords: Evaluation, gender-bias, pre-university, textbooks MENGEVALUASI BIAS GENDER DALAM BUKU TEKS PRA-UNIVERSITAS DI IRANAbstrak: Buku pelajaran bisa mempengaruhi perilaku, sudut pandang, dan pilihan bahasa para pelajar dalam komunikasi bahasa asing atau bahasa kedua mereka. Pajanan atas beragam cara orang-orang berkomunikasi bisa mempengaruhi sudut pandang para siswa. Kajian ini merupakan upaya untuk mencermati beberapa bidang yang berpotensi mengandung bias gender dalam representasi perempuan dan laki-laki pada buku pelajaran Bahasa Inggris pra-universitas, sebuah buku pengajaran bahasa Inggris yang terdiri atas dua volume yang diajarkan di sekolah-sekolah menengah di Iran. Untuk mengevaluasi buku pelajaran ini, analisa isi dilakukan untuk hal-hal yang berkaitan dengan bias gender, kenetralan gender, keumuman pria, dan kepertamaan dalam teks bacaan, perintah, latihan, dan ilustrasi. Frekuensi dan persentase

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Women's Mobility in the Corporation: A Critique of the Politics of Optimism

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Work experiences and career and job satisfaction among professional and managerial women in Norway

Work experiences and career and job satisfaction among professional and managerial women in Norway

Information technology and the gender factor

Evaluating Gender-Bias in the Iranian Pre-University English Textbooks

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