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Davis, Laura Marini; Geyfman, Victoria – Journal of Education for Business, 2015
The authors investigated women's underrepresentation in undergraduate business schools by analyzing a broad sample of Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)--accredited U.S. business programs between 2003 and 2011. They found that while there was an increase in the number of male students enrolled in the…
Descriptors: Gender Discrimination, Barriers, Females, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
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Exposito, Francisca; Herrera, M. Carmen; Moya, Miguel; Glick, Peter – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2010
We examined how Spanish women's benevolent sexism (a sex-role attitude) affects their perceptions of whether a hypothetical husband will feel threatened by a wife's success at work. In a social perception study, female participants (N = 210) read a vignette in which a husband and his wife argued over her job promotion. Women's benevolent sexism…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Females, Social Cognition, Gender Discrimination
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McTague, Tricia; Stainback, Kevin; Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald – Social Forces, 2009
This article examines the influence of resource dependence and institutional processes on post-Civil Rights Act changes in private sector workplace segregation. We use data collected by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from 1966 through 2000 to examine organizations embedded within their firm, industry, local labor market and…
Descriptors: Private Sector, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Civil Rights Legislation, Gender Discrimination