When you think about having babies, what images come to mind? If you’re like most people, you’ll think about mothers. That’s certainly the tenor of the pronatalist discussions in the U.S. today. Fatherhood scholar Richard Petts asks us to think differently—to think about fathers, not just mothers. He asks us to work toward a future where all [Read More...]
Mary Blair-Loy studies workplace values in a unique way—by identifying shared cultural understandings that are typically used to measure individuals’ worth at work. As she states in this fascinating talk, there are important disconnects between these cultural values of merit and individuals’ actual achievements. For example, the lone genius is valued in academia, but research [Read More...]
The demands of home aren't going away. And they aren't going to be solved by men doing more and women doing less. Given these long-time realities, Leah Ruppanner calls for "significant and impactful solutions” in this talk. "We need more women taking more risks to make big, bold, innovative solutions that help us all,” she [Read More...]
It is fitting that we release this remarkable Big Ideas Talk just before International Women’s Day on March 8th. It's about South Africa—a country with one of the most progressive constitutions in the world in addressing racial and gender injustices from the past. Yet, as Ameeta Jaga makes clear, legal protections and policies meant to [Read More...]
This study explores how highly educated Indian women entrepreneurs prioritize and manage the work and family role boundaries. It also explores whether boundary management strategies vary based on motherhood and business stages. We explored these issues by interviewing twenty-five financially successful well-educated women entrepreneurs from five cities (Chennai, Bengaluru, Delhi, Hyderabad, and Cochin) in India. [Read More...]
How do key cultural aspects of individualism/collectivism and gender egalitarianism shape the decision making of female managers from developing regions when handling major work–family conflicts (WFC)? We address this question by drawing on a qualitative study of 50 female managers from developing countries in Asia, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa who work in one particular [Read More...]
Drawing on data from an ethnographic study of the introduction and implementation of a flexible work policy intended in part to improve gender equality at a STEM professional organization, I develop grounded theory on how managers’ gender shapes their implementation of such initiatives. I identify an <italic>equality policy paradox</italic> in which women managers, who openly [Read More...]
Cohabiting dual-earner couples are increasingly common. However, previous recovery research mainly focused on employees independently of others, thereby overlooking an essential part of their life. Therefore, we take a closer look at dual-earner couples' recovery processes and link this research to a circadian perspective. We assumed that unfinished tasks impede engagement in time with the [Read More...]
We examine the effects of the COVID‐19 pandemic on faculty using survey data. First, we uncover heterogeneity in the immediate effects on research productivity and burnout. Three groups emerged (Career Accelerated, Career Insulated, and Career Headwinds) with female faculty disproportionately represented in Career Headwinds, experiencing both high burnout and declines in research productivity. Second, we [Read More...]
In this paper, we provide a broad, integrative review of the degree to which gender inequities exist in organizational domains and practices covering areas such as performance evaluation, compensation, leadership, work-family conflict, and sexual harassment, spanning the employee lifecycle from selection to exiting the organization. Where the literature allows, we review intersectionality findings. We also [Read More...]