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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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Does Board Ethnic Diversity Impact Board Monitoring Outcomes

TL;DR: This paper investigated whether board ethnic diversity is associated with stronger board monitoring outcomes, and found no evidence to support this, even for those firms with higher agency problems, and they also found that there is no evidence that diversity improves overall firm performance.
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The Experience of Women in Chinese Immigrant Families: An Inquiry into Institutional and Organizational Processes:

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of macrostructural processes (institutional and organizational) on Chinese immigrant women are examined, as well as effects of Canadian immigration policies, past and present, on middle class Chinese women.
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‘We especially welcome applications from members of visible minority groups’: reflections on race, gender and life at three universities

TL;DR: In this paper, an auto-ethnographic account of university life as a racialised woman who has worked in both Canadian and American universities is presented, with a theoretical framework drawn from critical perspectives on race, black feminisms and narrative and auto-historical research methodologies.
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Men who become Primary School Teachers: an early portrait

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report the findings of a study which sought to provide improved understanding of what motivates young men to choose primary teaching as a career and their experiences of their university course.
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Reading difference: How race and ethnicity function as tools for critical appraisal

TL;DR: This article found that reviewers use racial and ethnic identifiers to establish the authenticity of the novels, classify works into ethnic genres, and nominally identify international literary talent, and also present data on what influence racial and ethnicity identification has for critics' overall assessment of the books under review.
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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.