Unpacking the Status-Leveling Burden for Women in Male-Dominated Occupations

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Cardador, M. Teresa; Hill, Patrick L.; Salles, Arghavan
• 署名单位: University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Washington University (WUSTL); Stanford University; Stanford Medicine
• 刊物名称: ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE QUARTERLY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-8392
• DOI: 10.1177/00018392211038505
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 237-284
• 关键词: SAME-SEX CONFLICT; gender stereotypes; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; ROLE CONGRUITY; health-care; work; collaboration; physicians; PREJUDICE; IDENTITY

摘要

The challenges faced by women in male-dominated occupations are often attributed to the men in, and masculine cultures of, these occupations-and sometimes to senior women in these occupations who may fail to give a leg up to the women coming up behind them. As such, prior research has largely focused on challenges that women experience from those of higher or equal status within the occupation and on the negative climate that surrounds women in these positions. We introduce a novel challenge, the status-leveling burden, which is the pressure put on women in male-dominated occupations from women in occupations lower in the institutional hierarchy to be their equal. Drawing on interviews with 45 surgeons, we present a model that unpacks this status-leveling burden. Our research makes novel contributions to the literatures on challenges to women in male-dominated occupations and on shared demography in cross-occupational collaboration, and it suggests new avenues for research at the intersection of gender and occupational status in the workplace.