SOC362H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Wasted Talent, Homosociality, Social Capital
Document Summary
Trends in women as senior managers and other managers. The two promotion models & how they affect women. The glass ceiling effect and its causes. Organizational causes of lower female promotion rates. Terms to know authority problem glass ceiling promotion ladder seniority merit within-occupation gender segregation homophily organization gender culture gender labelling organizational climate systemic discrimination. Note: # of males in upper management positions fluctuate a lot more than females, since 2004, males have been declining, slight decline since 2009 however, females not much have changed. Note: % of female managers is relatively going up : high 2002, low 2004, high 2010, low 2012. Note: doesn"t fluctuate at all, hover around 37, 2013: 36% higher compares to 2003. People get better jobs by promoting into jobs. Alternative that works is to get promoted by a different company (i. e. entertainment industries); the higher you go the more common it is. Career is picking a ladder that does up.
