CAS WS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Lawrence Summers, Glass Ceiling, Tokenism

• School: Boston University
• Department: Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
• Course: CAS WS 101
• Professor: Karen Warkentin

Document Summary

Occupational segregation (sorting people on the basis of gender across and within jobs): These preferences come from family constraints/responsibilities and culture: gender-typed work influences choices for jobs. (psychology and sociology): cultural expectations shape how others see our competence. expectations of competence are at the core of unequal status relations. Ex: we enter most social contexts that men are more generally competent. Sex categorization automatically activates gender stereotypes-- affects. Evidence for gender bias in evaluations of competence: than women judgements. Discourses of evaluation and gendered language in assessment. Field experiments: resume audit + blind ratings experiments. Ex: students rate male professors significantly higher than female professors regardless of instructor"s actual gender; Natural experiments (schilt"s study of female-to-male transsexuals0. Social structures that benefit men and inhibit women without directly meaning to i. e. institutionalized sexism in workplace structures. Christine williams: women"s work in semi-professions (nursing, librarians). men in these fields ride the . Glass escalator occupations were often fast-tracked to higher positions.