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Gender Discrimination in Management. Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences

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Title Gender Discrimination in Management. Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives
 
Creator MACARIE, Felicia Cornelia; Associate Professor, Public Administration Department, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, “Babeş-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
MOLDOVAN, Octavian; M.A. student, Management of Public Services, Public
Administration Department, Faculty of Political, Administrative
and Communication Sciences, “Babeş-Bolyai” University,
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
 
Subject gender discrimination in management; women in decision making positions; psychological mechanisms of discrimination; the glass ceiling; the glass cliff; the glass elevator.
 
Description This paper reviews the permanently expanding literature on gender discrimination in management, focusing on women in decision making positions from both the public and private sphere. Different psychological mechanisms (such as stereotyping, attribution or equity), that are not necessarily mutually exclusive but rather complementary, determine individual manifestations in the form of discrimination (ranging from formal to informal, covert to overt and so on) against females. As a result, women are either underrepresented in top management (under normal conditions) or overrepresented in risky managerial positions (in periods of organizational crisis or downturn). Furthermore, even in the limited number of sectors where women represent more than half of the labor force (such as nursing, primary education or social services) men have better odds of being promoted, due to formal or informal assistance received from mentors of the same gender. Albeit rather incremental shifts toward a better representation of women in decision making positions can be observed in the last decades, both statistical and experimental data show that there is still a long way until their representation in managerial positions will reflect their involvement in the workforce.
 
Publisher Babes Bolyai University
 
Contributor This paper is part of a larger project no. 2254/PNII/IDEI/2008, “The Impact of Gender on Organizational Culture of Public Organizations. Study of the Presence of Women in Top Public Organization’s Management”, financed by the Romanian National Council for
 
Date 2012-02-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/51
 
Source Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences; 2012: Issue No. 35 E/February; 153-172
1842-2845
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/51/47
 
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