Gender Roles in a Traditionally Female Occupation: A Study of Emergency, Operating, Intensive Care, and Psychiatric Nurses

Customers’ perspectives regarding e-banking in an emerging economy

“…Research on gender differences indicates that men tend to be highly task-oriented (Minton and Schneider, 1980) and, therefore, performance expectancies, which focus on task accomplishment, are likely to be especially salient to men. Gender schema theory suggests that such differences stem from gender roles and socialization processes reinforced from birth rather than biological gender per se (Bem, 1981;Bem and Allen, 1974;Kirchmeyer, 1997;Lubinski et al, 1983;Lynott and McCandless, 2000;Motowidlo, 1982). Similar to gender, age is theorized to play a moderating role.…”

Careers as tournaments: The impact of sex and gendered organizational culture preferences on MBAs' income attainment

“…For example, Kirchmeyer and Bullin (1997) found that masculine preferences were associated with higher salaries for both men and women. Fagenson (1990) reported that leaders who were higher in an organization were seen as more masculine, regardless of sex.…”

Gender and Job Role Congruence: A Field Study of Trust in Labor Mediators

“…This includes the masculine job roles of leaders and managers (e.g., Eagly and Karau 2002;Eagly et al 1992), physicians (Burgoon et al 1991), scientists and engineers (Dodson and Borders 2006;Jagacinski 1987), accountants (Johnson and Scandura 1994), negotiators (e.g., Stuhlmacher et al 2007) and police officers (Martell 1991(Martell , 1996, as well as in feminine job roles such as nurses (Kirchmeyer 1997) and elementary school counselors (Dodson and Borders 2006). Laboratory studies suggest that in masculine job roles men are preferred over women, while in feminine job roles women are preferred over men (Davidson and Burke 2000).…”