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

SES-1129123 Paula EnglandAlison FogartyStanford UniversityDoctoral Dissertation Research：A Hierarchy of Gender Discrimination in the WorkplaceAbstract这个项目关注工作场所中基于性别的歧视，特别是因为它受到性别表达和固定性相关问题的影响。 这项研究审查了代表性不足的性别群体如何体验工作场所，以及其他人如何对他们的存在作出反应，因此，它提供了一个透镜，了解个人对性别及其二元和固定性质的文化理解。 这项研究扩大了基于性别的歧视在性别表达和性别固定方面的差异的概念化，这两个概念经常被视为一个单位，本研究采用了定量和定性研究相结合的方法，并采用了被调查者驱动抽样（RDS）的方法，为普查工作计算无偏的人口估计数，以便作出可靠的概括。它审查了不同时期工作场所经验的数据，以评估歧视方面的变化。 对已经或正在考虑转变性别的个人以及与他们一起工作的个人进行访谈，可以评估激励行为的态度，并处理对他们二元和固定性别观的挑战。更广泛的影响这项研究有机会通过帮助提高对性别的社会建构性质的认识来促成积极的社会变革。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.