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Men and Women of the Corporation

Mary Anne Devanna
- 01 Apr 1978 - 
- Vol. 14, Iss: 2, pp 247-250
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This article is published in The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science.The article was published on 1978-04-01. It has received 3053 citations till now.

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Everyday Experiences of Sexism in Male-dominated Professions: A Bourdieusian Perspective

TL;DR: Using a Bourdieusian lens, this paper examined the persistence of everyday sexism and gender inequality in male-dominated professions and found that women experience gendered treatment in everyday interactions with peers.
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Confronting Career Double Binds Implications for Women, Organizations, and Career Practitioners

TL;DR: The authors argue that women are rejecting the outdated career model based on stable employment and instead are enacting an updated "we are self-employed" model, and explore the shift in career paradigms, what organizations and women have done to date, and the implications in addressing the double bind going forward.
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FEMALE AND MALE MANAGERS' AND PROFESSIONALS' CRITICISM GIVING Differences in Language Use and Effects

TL;DR: This paper investigated differences in the language used by 86 female and male middle managers and career professionals during role plays of criticism that they had recently voiced to a colleague, revealing significant differences in language use, permitting 72% accurate gender reclassification.
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Leadership as Social Integrative Action. A Study of a Computer Consultancy Company

TL;DR: In this paper, it is suggested that leadership at least in some types of organiza tions can be conceptualized as social integrative action, and that such action is seen as a synthesis of institutional and human relations-oriented leadership.
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Stereotype Threat Among Women in Finance Negative Effects on Identity, Workplace Well-Being, and Recruiting

TL;DR: For example, the authors found that women in finance reported diminished well-being at work and were less likely to recommend their field to other women, and these outcomes were mediated by identity separation.
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Role congruity theory of prejudice toward female leaders.

TL;DR: Evidence from varied research paradigms substantiates that consequences of perceived incongruity between the female gender role and leadership roles are more difficult for women to become leaders and to achieve success in leadership roles.
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Economics and Identity

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider how identity, a person's sense of self, affects economic outcomes and incorporate the psychology and sociology of identity into an economic model of behavior, and construct a simple game-theoretic model showing how identity can affect individual interactions.
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Emotion Work, Feeling Rules, and Social Structure

TL;DR: In this article, an emotion-management perspective is proposed as a lens through which to inspect the self, interaction, and structure of emotion, arguing that emotion can be and ofter is subject to acts of management.
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What is agency

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conceptualize agency as a temporally embedded process of social engagement, informed by the past (in its "iterational" or habitual aspect) but also oriented toward the future (as a projective capacity to imagine alternative possibilities) and toward the present, as a practical-evaluative capacity to contextualize past habits and future projects within the contingencies of the moment.
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Social stigma and self-esteem: The self-protective properties of stigma.

TL;DR: In this article, it is proposed that members of stigmatized groups may attribute negative feedback to prejudice against their group, compare their outcomes with those of the ingroup, rather than with the relatively advantaged outgroup, and selectively devalue those dimensions on which their group fares poorly and value those dimensions that their group excels.