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Men and Women of the Corporation
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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.
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The female combat soldier
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the ways in which Western military culture may have both impeded and facilitated female accession to combat roles once reserved exclusively for men in the military, and how female soldiers are often subjected to an institutionalized cultural code that defines them as "sluts" or "bitches".
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New Voices in the Workplace: Research Directions in Multicultural Communication.
TL;DR: Although the U.S. workforce is becoming increasingly multicultural, research and theory in business communication continues to be based on the assumption of cultural similarity as discussed by the authors, which is not the case.
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Sensemaking and Identity The Interconnection of Storytelling and Networking in a Women's Group of a Large Corporation
TL;DR: This article explored the power of narratives as a sensemaking device for members of a women's resource network in a large corporation during a time of significant organizational change, and the influence of storytelling on the networking practices of its members.
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Bargaining Behind the Scenes: Spousal Negotiation, Labor, and Work–Family Burnout
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the negotiation process that partners in a couple engage in behind the scenes to negotiate whose career will take precedence in the household and the resulting effort and burnout that individuals experience at work and at home.
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The Influence of Gender Composition in Powerful Positions on Public Relations Practitioners' Gender-Related Perceptions
Youjin Choi,Linda Childers Hon +1 more
TL;DR: This paper examined how women's proportional representation in powerful positions affects practitioners' perceptions of gender differences and evaluation relative to success and found that female and male respondents in male-dominated organizations were more likely to evaluate men favorably relative to their success than practitioners in gender-integrated organizations.