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Gender sorting and the glass ceiling in high tech
Fernandez, Roberto M.; Campero, Santiago - 2012
Past studies of gender and hierarchy document that the proportion of women declines as one looks up levels of the organizational hierarchy. With few exceptions, studies have conceived of the glass ceiling as reflecting disparities in internal promotion. Recent research has questioned this...
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From metaphors to mechanisms: gender sorting in(to) an organizational hierarchy
Fernandez, Roberto M.; Abraham, Mabel Botelho - 2010
Numerous studies have examined patterns of gender inequality in organizational advancement, with some showing results indicative of “glass ceilings,” where gender disparities are strong at the upper reaches of the organization, while others suggest “sticky floors,” where the gender...
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Importing equality? : the impact of globalization on gender discrimination
Black, Sandra E.; Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2002
While researchers have long held that discrimination cannot endure in an increasingly competitive environment, there … competition resulting from globalization in the 1980s forced employers to reduce costly discrimination against women. The … gap: because concentrated industries face little competitive pressure to reduce discrimination, an increase in competition …
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Awareness reduces racial bias
Pope, Devin G.; Price, Joseph; Wolfers, Justin - 2014
Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following the release of an academic study. Using new data, we...
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Convergence over time or not? : U.S. wages by sexual orientation, 2001-2018
Jepsen, Christopher; Jepsen, Lisa K. - 2020
of anti-discrimination policies and rising overall tolerance by Americans is concerning. …
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Pride and Prejudice : Employment Discrimination Against Openly Gay Men in the United States
Tilcsik, András - 2021
This article presents the first large-scale audit study of discrimination against openly gay men in the United States … findings have emerged. First, in some but not all states, there was significant discrimination against the fictitious … applicants who appeared to be gay. This geographic variation in the level of discrimination appears to reflect regional …
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Labor, civil rights, and the Hughes Tool Company
Botson, Michael R. - 2005 - 1. ed.
Houston's working class and the origins of organized labor in the Bayou City -- How it all began : Houston, labor, oil, and working at Mr. Hughes's place -- Labor at Hughes Tool, 1929-1934 : hard times, Jim Crow, unions, and Uncle Sam -- Industrial democracy comes to the monarchy of Hughes...
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Late 19th and early 20th century native and immigrant body mass index values
Carson, Scott Alan - 2017
When traditional measures for health and economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, height and the body mass index (BMI) are now well-accepted measures that reflect net nutrition during economic development. To date, there is no study that compares 19th century BMIs of immigrants and US natives....
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Leadership behavior as a health-promoting resource for workers in low-skilled jobs and the moderating role of power distance orientation
Winkler, Eva; Busch, Christine; Clasen, Julia; … - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung : ZfP 28 (2014) 1/2, pp. 96-116
In this study, the authors analyze leadership behaviors as potential health-promoting resources for low-skilled workers in a highly culturally diverse work setting. The authors hypothesize that subordinates' and supervisors' individual power distance orientations will moderate the effect of...
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Women's work after war
Kleykamp, Meredith A. - 2010
Experiments ; Veterans ; Discrimination ; Hiring ; Employment …
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