PSY 3121 Lecture Notes - Pension, Quid Pro Quo, Dermatology
5 Jun 2018
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PSY3121A Dr. Mary-Theresa Howard
Career Psychology 04.06.18
Career Psychology involves profession/career (higher level than just a job); two factors:
• Sociopsychological perspective – do’t at too uh suess / do’t at to out pla parter
o Causal attributions for success and failure i.e given position to match the female quota
• Organizational perspective – where is the job located, where is the career headed
o Women performance evaluation found to be lower than men due to the biased criteria for males
o Woe ofte do’t hae role odels, teahers, etors that are i high aageet role to aid
women to work up the ranks
▪ Queen bee syndrome – oa ith higher aageet leel do’t at other oe
to obtain the success they have
▪ Escalator syndrome – women rise easily but stop at a certain level in a career
o Sexual harassment
Traditional careers – stereotypical
• Women in medicine are more likely to go into dermatology, family medicine; not many who are
orthopedics, neurosurgeons – can but choose not to b/c not their interest or not flexible schedule
• Women are guided towards more female jobs throughout high school education
Nontraditional careers
• Tokenism – quota states that a certain amount of workers need to be women
o Criteria for women firefighters used to be less than men, now its more or less equal
• males are needed elsewhere and women take up the jobs that men used to do
Failitators of Woe’s Deelopet
• maternal employment – daughters learned directly from mothers, sons learned androgyny and what is
the job of a female and what is the job of a man
• supportie fathers pla a ig part i a oe’s hoie i areer
discrimination
• hiring practices and gatekeepers are normally controlled by men (decide who is hired)
• financial inequities – men make more than women even today
o avg women makes 16% less than men for the same work; even less in private companies
o in canada women make 27.5% less then men
Sexual Harassment
• quid pro quo – gives a condition on the demand of needing sex
o i.e if you want to be hired, if you want a promotion, if you don't want to lose your job then you
must have sex with me
• hostile environment – sexual touching, sexual comments and jokes, degrading comments regarding ability
or behavior as a group (not limited to sexual), displays of sexual material
o ofte oe do’t realize it is seual harasset or do’t ko ho to deal ith it
employment and family – women as mothers do not get paid
• double shift – women work a full time job and do house work at home
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