Attitudes towards women's career advancement in Latin America: The moderating impact of perceived company international proactiveness

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Hermans, Michel; Newburry, William; Alvarado-Vargas, Marcelo J.; Baldo, Carlos M.; Borda, Armando; Duran-Zurita, Edwin G.; Geleilate, Jose Mauricio Galli; Guerra, Massiel; Lasio Morello, Maria Virginia; Madero-Gomez, Sergio M.; Olivas-Lujan, Miguel R.; Marie Zwerg-Villegas, Anne
• 署名单位: Austral University; State University System of Florida; Florida International University; University System of Ohio; University of Toledo; Universidad ESAN; University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Lowell; Universidad del Desarrollo; Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral; Tecnologico de Monterrey; Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE); Clarion University of Pennsylvania; Universidad de La Sabana
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2506
• DOI: 10.1057/s41267-016-0039-7
• 发表日期: 2017
• 页码: 90-112
• 关键词: gender; CAREER ADVANCEMENT; INTERNATIONALIZATION; Latin America; emerging economies

摘要

While companies operating in Latin America have witnessed increased female leadership participation, the region remains characterized by traditional gender role attitudes. This juxtaposition of traditional machismo attitudes towards women along with progress in women's leadership participation make this setting ideal for examining a topic of continued worldwide debate: women's career advancement. This study examines attitudes towards the career advancement of women-a historically marginalized group in Latin America. Building on the extant literature, we test the negative association between traditional gender role orientations and attitudes towards women's career advancement, both directly and via a mediated relationship through acceptance of women in the workplace. We then theoretically and empirically extend this literature by examining an important context-related moderator-a company's international proactiveness-which we contend serves as a mechanism for keeping traditional machismo attitudes from manifesting. We examine these relationships within a sample of 973 respondents within the Latin American countries of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela. Our findings support our hypotheses and provide practical insight into the important, yet generally not considered effects of a company's internationalization efforts on attitudes towards the career advancement of women.