Promoted Up But Also Out? The Unintended Consequences of Increasing Women's Representation in Managerial Roles in Engineering
Promoted Up But Also Out? The Unintended Consequences of Increasing Women's Representation in Managerial Roles in Engineering
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10.1287/orsc.2017.1132
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发表时间：
2017-07-01
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4.1
通讯作者：
Cardador, M. Teresa
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作者：
Cardador, M. Teresa
在美国，工程仍然是性别隔离最严重、最持久的职业之一。尽管现有文献表明，女性在男性主导的职业中获得管理职位的机会增加，应该是解决性别隔离问题的重要策略，但我对61位行业工程师的采访分析表明，在工程领域，女性在管理角色中的比例不成比例的增加，可能会促进性别隔离，而性别隔离正是试图缓解的。该分析强调了组织如何加强女性工程师进入管理角色，并培养一种职业内性别隔离的形式，这对女性造成了意想不到的后果。这些后果包括培养对工程的混合认同，强化关于女性适合技术工作的刻板印象，以及增加工作与生活平衡的紧张关系。研究结果进一步表明，工程领域颠倒的角色等级可以解释这些性别化的职业模式及其意想不到的后果。我所说的颠倒角色等级是指技术角色高于管理角色的价值。本文讨论了职业性别隔离、女性在管理角色中的代表性以及女性在男性主导职业中的经验对文献的启示。
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 strategy for addressing sex segregation, my analysis of 61 interviews with industry engineers suggests that increasing women's disproportionate representation in managerial roles in engineering may promote the very sex segregation it is attempting to mitigate. The analysis highlights how organizations reinforce female engineers' movement into managerial roles and foster a form of intraoccupational sex segregation with unintended consequences for women. These consequences include fostering mixed identification with engineering, reinforcing stereotypes about women's suitability for technical work, and increasing work-life balance tensions. The findings further suggest that an inverted role hierarchy in engineering may explain these gendered career patterns and their unintended consequences. By inverted role hierarchy I mean the valuing of technical over managerial roles. Implications for the literatures on occupational sex segregation, women's representation in managerial roles, and the experience of women in male-dominated occupations are discussed.