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Men and Women of the Corporation
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Critical Mass Theory Revisited: The Behavior and Success of Token Women in State Legislatures
TL;DR: This paper found that women are generally as successful as men in passing the legislation that they sponsor, and that in very homogeneous settings, they are sometimes more successful than men Moreover, little evidence exists that they are less likely to be appointed to leadership positions and that increasing gender diversity within a legislature is accompanied by a greater overall focus on women's issues.
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Normative Discrimination and the Motherhood Penalty
TL;DR: The authors examined whether mothers face discrimination in labor-market-type evaluations even when they provide indisputable evidence that they are competent and committed to paid work and found that evaluators discriminate against highly successful mothers by viewing them as less warm, less likable, and more interpersonally hostile than otherwise similar workers who are not mothers.
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Women directors' contribution to board decision‐making and strategic involvement: The role of equality perception
Sabina Nielsen,Morten Huse +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the contribution of women directors to board decision-making and strategic involvement and found that women directors influence board strategic involvement through their contribution to board decisions, which in turn depends on women directors' professional experiences and the different values they bring along.
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Ingroup Experts and Peers as Social Vaccines Who Inoculate the Self-Concept: The Stereotype Inoculation Model
TL;DR: This paper used a new theoretical lens, the stereotype inoculation model, to reveal how ingroup members (experts and peers in high-achievement settings) function as "professionals" who gravitate toward achievement domains that feel like a comfortable fit because they are in sync with ingroup stereotypes.
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Doing, Undoing, or Redoing Gender? Learning from the Workplace Experiences of Transpeople
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that trans people face unique challenges in making interactional sense of their sex, gender, and sex category and simultaneously engage in doing, undoing, and redoing gender in the process of managing these challenges.
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Role congruity theory of prejudice toward female leaders.
Alice H. Eagly,Steven J. Karau +1 more
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
Mustafa Emirbayer,Ann Mische +1 more
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.
Jennifer Crocker,Brenda Major +1 more
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.