SOC362H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Homosociality, Wasted Talent, Escalator
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Joan rivers did not let chores get in the way of creating a career in show business. 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. Answer: no, men and women"s promotion rates are equal, they just don"t get promoted to authority positions. Graph shows the number of male and females in senior manager. 1. number of males in upper management fluctuates more. 2. since 2004 the number for men has been going down. 3. for women in 2009 just a very slight decline. Note: % of all managers that are females: low in 2004, peak in 2010, peak in 2010, overall more women in management positions.
