Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Hierarchy of Gender Discrimination in the Workplace

博士论文研究：职场性别歧视的层级摘要本项目关注职场中基于性别的歧视，特别是因为它受到与性别表达和固定有关的问题的影响。这项研究考察了代表性不足的性别群体如何体验工作场所，以及其他人如何回应他们的存在，因此，它提供了一个镜头，揭示了个人对性别及其二元和固定性质的文化理解。本研究将性别歧视的概念扩展到性别表达的分化和性别固定这两个经常被视为一个单位的概念中，以考察哪一个更倾向于偏见或歧视。研究同时涉及定量和定性研究，并使用受访者驱动抽样(RDS)来计算调查工作中人口估计的无偏计算，以便做出可靠的概括。它审查了不同时期工作场所经历的数据，以评估歧视的变化。通过对已经或正在考虑转变性别的个人以及与他们共事的个人的采访，可以评估促使他们行为的态度，并应对他们对性别的二元和固定观点的挑战。更广泛的影响这项研究有机会通过帮助提高人们对性别的社会建构性质的认识，导致积极的社会变革。它有可能促进减少工作场所的性别不平等和基于性别的歧视和虐待。

SES-1129123Paula EnglandAlison FogartyStanford UniversityDoctoral Dissertation Research: A Hierarchy of Gender Discrimination in the WorkplaceAbstractThis project focuses on gender based discrimination in the workplace particularly as it is influenced by issues related to gender expression and fixity. The research examines how underrepresented gender groups experience the workplace and how others respond to their presence, and thus, it provides a lens on individuals' cultural understandings of gender and its binary and fixed nature. This research expands the conceptualization of the dimensions of gender based discrimination in its differentiation of gender expression and gender fixity, two concepts frequently considered as a unit, to see if one or the other plays more into prejudice or discrimination.The research involves both quantitative and qualitative research and employs Respondent Drive Sampling (RDS) to compute unbiased calculations of population estimates for the survey work so that solid generalizations can be made. It examines data about workplace experiences at various time periods in order to assess changes in discrimination. Interviews of individuals who have or are contemplating transitioning genders and of individuals who work with them makes it possible to assess the attitudes that motivate behaviors and handle challenges to their binary and fixed view of gender. Broader ImpactThis research has the opportunity to result in positive social change by helping to increase awareness of the socially constructed nature of gender. It has the potential to facilitate reducing gender inequality and gender based discrimination and abuse in the workplace.