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April 10, 2013 - May 29, 2026

Available Issues

April 10, 2013 - May 29, 2026

Virtual Special Issue:
Gender and Organization Science

Gender and Organization Science: Introduction to a Virtual Special Issue

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Organization Science

    Abstract
    Gendered processes and outcomes are pervasive in organizational life. They shape how individuals perceive their career prospects, which types of opportunities they pursue, how they get work done within organizations, and how they balance this work with ...
Deconstructing Organizational Taboos: The Suppression of Gender Conflict in Organizations

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Organization Science

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    This paper begins with a story told by a corporation president to illustrate what his organization was doing to “help” women employees balance the demands of work and home. The paper deconstructs and reconstructs this story text from a feminist ...
Managing Multiple Roles: Work-Family Policies and Individuals’ Desires for Segmentation

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Organization Science

    Abstract
    As workers strive to manage multiple roles such as work and family, research has begun to focus on how people manage the boundary between work and nonwork roles. This paper contributes to emerging work on boundary theory by examining the extent to which ...
Women's and Men's Career Referents: How Gender Composition and Comparison Level Shape Career Expectations

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Organization Science

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    This study examines how women's and men's career referents—the people they see as having similar careers—affect career expectations. We raise two questions. First, what is the relative effect of the gender composition and comparison level of career ...
Engendering Inequity? How Social Accounts Create vs. Merely Explain Unfavorable Pay Outcomes for Women

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Organization Science

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    Two studies examined how managers' pay decisions for male and female employees are affected by the opportunity to provide social accounts and how managers think about the value of accounts for men versus women. I theorized that managers would treat social ...
Looking Up and Looking Out: Career Mobility Effects of Demographic Similarity Among Professionals

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Organization Science

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    We investigate the role of workgroup gender and race composition on the career mobility of professionals in “up-or-out” organizations. We develop a nuanced perspective on the potential career mobility effects of workgroup demography by integrating the ...
The Impact of Categorical Status, Numeric Representation, and Work Group Prestige on Preference for Demographically Similar Others: A Value Threat Approach

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Organization Science

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    It is a popular assumption that women and racial minorities who are numeric minorities in high-prestige work groups will advocate for a demographically similar other as a potential work group peer. However, these individuals may face special challenges in ...
Do Women Choose Different Jobs from Men? Mechanisms of Application Segregation in the Market for Managerial Workers

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Organization Science

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    This paper examines differences in the jobs for which men and women apply in order to better understand gender segregation in managerial jobs. We develop and test an integrative theory of why women might apply to different jobs than men. We note that ...
Is It Me or Her? How Gender Composition Evokes Interpersonally Sensitive Behavior on Collaborative Cross-Boundary Projects

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Organization Science

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    This paper investigates how professional workers’ willingness to act with interpersonal sensitivity is influenced by the gender and power of their interaction partners. We call into question the idea that mixed-gender interactions involve more ...
Embracing, Passing, Revealing, and the Ideal Worker Image: How People Navigate Expected and Experienced Professional Identities

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Organization Science

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    This paper examines how people navigate organizational pressures to embrace a professional identity that—like the ideal worker image—centers on devotion to work. My field study of a consulting firm demonstrated that although some people easily embrace ...
Accounting for the Gap: A Firm Study Manipulating Organizational Accountability and Transparency in Pay Decisions

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Organization Science

    Abstract
    Great progress has been made in documenting how employer practices may shape workplace inequality. Less research attention, however, has been given to investigating which organizational strategies are effective at addressing gender and racial inequality ...
The Leader-in-Social-Network Schema: Perceptions of Network Structure Affect Gendered Attributions of Charisma

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Organization Science

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    Charisma is crucially important for a range of leadership outcomes. Charisma is also in the eye of the beholder—an attribute perceived by followers. Traditional leadership theory has tended to assume charismatic attributions flow to men rather than women. ...
Tipping Points: The Gender Segregating and Desegregating Effects of Network Recruitment

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Organization Science

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    Current scholarship commonly posits that network recruitment contributes to job sex segregation and that the segregated nature of personal contact networks explains this effect. A variety of empirical findings inconsistent with this explanation ...
When She Brings Home the Job Status: Wives’ Job Status, Status Leakage, and Marital Instability

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Organization Science

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    Women are increasingly represented in high status organizational positions. While the advancement of women into high status roles offers them many organizational benefits, the spillover and crossover effects of these high status positions on their marital ...
Promoted Up But Also Out? The Unintended Consequences of Increasing Women’s Representation in Managerial Roles in Engineering

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Organization Science

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    Engineering remains one of the most highly and persistently sex segregated occupations in the United States. Though extant literature submits that women’s increased access to managerial positions in male-dominated occupations should represent an important ...