Gender and the Glass Ceiling at Work

Purcell, David; MacArthur, Kelly Rhea; Samblanet, Sarah

doi:10.1111/j.1751-9020.2010.00304.x

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“…More senior women reported obstacles to formal promotion. These results corroborate research on women's workplace leadership experiences in STEM and other professions in the United States, and are indicative of widespread sociocultural constructions of gender roles whereby women are often perceived as unfit for or incompatible with leadership, and treated accordingly (Eagly & Carli, ; Purcell, MacArthur, & Samblanet, ).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 79%

Challenges and supports for women conservation leaders

Jones

Solomon

2019

Conservat Sci and Prac

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Leadership and inclusivity are increasingly recognized as fundamental to conservation success, yet women's leadership within the conservation profession is understudied. This study identifies gender‐related challenges women conservation leaders experienced in their careers, and supports helping them advance. Using an intersectionality framing to identify intersections between gender, race/ethnicity, age, and leadership position, we conducted and analyzed semi‐structured interviews with 56 women leaders in conservation organizations across the United States. All interviewees reported experiencing or witnessing a gender‐related workplace challenge in at least one of six categories, and the vast majority reported encountering four or more of these challenges: salary inequality and difficulty negotiating, formal exclusion, informal exclusion, harassment and inadequate organizational response, assumptions of inadequacy, and assumptions of wrongness. Participants also experienced two categories of supports: structural supports and supportive relationships. Women's experiences varied based on age, race and ethnicity, and leadership position. Our results indicate more effort is needed to identify effective strategies for making conservation a more inclusive, empowering, and appealing profession in which to work.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 79%

Challenges and supports for women conservation leaders

Jones

Solomon

2019

Conservat Sci and Prac

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“…Women also face systematic disadvantages in terms of vertical mobility, authority and low-income, lower-status jobs (Purcell et al, 2010). Similarly, gender stereotypes exist as to what is considered "women's work" (Carrillo et al, 2014).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Further, Bonjour and Gerfin (2001) reveal that the gender wage gap is not constant throughout the wage distribution but it is larger at the bottom, even after controlling for gender differences in labour market characteristics for Switzerland. Harlan and Berheide (1994) identify systemic barriers to job advancement for women in a variety of occupations outside of white-collar occupations (Purcell et al, 2010). For instance, sticky floors are present in the manufacturing sector, where women are increasingly less likely to be represented within each level of the hierarchy.…”

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confidence: 99%

Glass ceiling and sticky floors: hurdles for Mauritian working women

Tandrayen‐Ragoobur

Pydayya

2015

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to analyse the gender wage differential at different points of the wage distribution. It investigates the existence of glass ceilings and sticky floors in the Mauritian labour market. There is no previous empirical work studying gender inequality in the labour market for the small island economy of Mauritius. Design/methodology/approach -To investigate whether wage differentials are higher at the top or bottom ends of the wage distribution, the authors examine the wage disparities across different quantiles of the wage distribution. The gender wage disparities are assessed using quantile regression and decomposition techniques at the 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th quantiles. Survey data from the Continuous Multi-Purpose Household Survey from 2006 to 2013 is used. Findings -The results reveal that sticky floors are more pronounced than glass ceilings over the years. Further, for the years 2008, 2010 and 2012, it is noted that at the 75th quantiles, the gender wage differentials started to rise showing glass ceiling effects. The combination of both sticky floors and glass ceilings are characterised by the unexplained factors providing evidence for gender discrimination in the Mauritian labour market. Originality/value -This is the first study analysing the glass ceilings or sticky floors in the Mauritian labour market. Though the research is limited to Mauritius, the latter being a small island economy can serve as a case study for other island economies and also for the African continent.

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“…The proportion of each component is the weight which also presented in the table 2(b). The formula for all the components used in calculating the final 'chief factors fraction' (F) is as shown in the equation (1). With the results from PCA, the value F in this study can be written as in equation (2).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This hypothesis hardly exists in reality. As Purcell et al [1] suggested, the constituted family reshapes an individual's social class through household integration and redistribution. Additionally, household exchange also impacts on the overall social resource distribution and social structure.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Social Class Index: A New Measurement for Gender Social Stratification

Tang¹

2017

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This research studied the Chinese gender social stratification by creating the Direct and Indirect 'Social Class Index' (SCI) for each observation. Adopting the Principal Component Analysis, both indices combined many social aspects, such as occupation, ownership, industry, job stability, year of school and hourly earnings etc. In addition, with a changed variable set, which included the occupation concerning information in labour market, and also the household redistribution and exchange impact, a new 'SCI' was formed. This new 'SCI' reconstructed the original social structure and changed the individual's social rank. After comparing the two indices, it was found that the impact of the household in China helped diminish social disparities between couples, genders and social groups. Marital status had a positive effect on the lower social strata and on women.

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Gender and the Glass Ceiling at Work

Cited by 61 publications

References 71 publications

Challenges and supports for women conservation leaders

Challenges and supports for women conservation leaders

Glass ceiling and sticky floors: hurdles for Mauritian working women

Social Class Index: A New Measurement for Gender Social Stratification

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