Numerous scholars have noted the disproportionately high number of gay and lesbian workers in certain occupations, but systematic explanations for this type of occupational segregation remain elusive. Drawing on the literatures on concealable stigma and stigma management, we develop a...

This study examines whether self-monitoring — a ubiquitous social psychological construct that captures the extent to which individuals regulate their self-presentation to match the expectation of others — varies across demographic and social contexts. Building on Erving Goffman’s classic...