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57The Glass Escalator, Revisited: Gender Inequality in Neoliberal Times, SWS Feminist LecturerGender and Society 27 (5): 609-629. 2013.When women work in male-dominated professions, they encounter a “glass ceiling” that prevents their ascension into the top jobs. Twenty years ago, I introduced the concept of the “glass escalator,” my term for the advantages that men receive in the so-called women’s professions, including the assumption that they are better suited than women for leadership positions. In this article, I revisit my original analysis and identify two major limitations of the concept: it fails to adequately address …Read more
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7Class Questions, Feminist Answers. By Joan Acker. Lanham, MA: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006, 219 pp., $24.94 (paper), $70.00 (review)Gender and Society 21 (2): 302-304. 2007.
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8Book Review: The Tolls of Uncertainty: How Privilege and the Guilt Gap Shape Unemployment in America by Sarah Damaske (review)Gender and Society 35 (6): 995-997. 2021.
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4Book Review: Inventing Equal Opportunity. By Frank Dobbin. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009, 310 pp., $35.00 (review)Gender and Society 24 (4): 546-548. 2010.
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3Book Review: Assembling Women: The Feminization of Global Manufacturing. By Teri L. Caraway. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007, 208 pp., $57.95 (cloth), $18.95 (paper). Transnational Tortillas: Race, Gender, and Shop-Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States. By Carolina Bank-Muñoz. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008, 202 pp., $49.95 (cloth), $18.95 (review)Gender and Society 23 (2): 285-288. 2009.
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26Gendered Organizations in the New EconomyGender and Society 26 (4): 549-573. 2012.Gender scholars draw on the “theory of gendered organizations” to explain persistent gender inequality in the workplace. This theory argues that gender inequality is built into work organizations in which jobs are characterized by long-term security, standardized career ladders and job descriptions, and management controlled evaluations. Over the past few decades, this basic organizational logic has been transformed. In the so-called new economy, work is increasingly characterized by job insecur…Read more
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Self, Social Structure, and Beliefs: Explorations in SociologyUniv of California Press. 2004.This is an exploration of the creative work done by leading sociologists who were inspired by the scholarship of Neil Smelser.
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13Sexual Harassment and SadomasochismHypatia 17 (2): 99-117. 2002.Although many women experience harmful behaviors that fit the legal definition of sexual harassment, very few ever label their experiences as such. I explore how psychological ambivalence expressed as sadomasochism may account for some of this gap. Following Lynn Chancer, I argue that certain structural circumstances characteristic of highly stratified bureaucratic organizations may promote these psychological responses. After discussing two illustrations of this dynamic, I draw out the implicat…Read more
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Winner Of The Gerrit And Edith Schipper Award For Outstanding Undergraduate Paper: "towards A Procedural Deontology"Florida Philosophical Review 3 (1): 45-58. 2003.
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143Sexual harassment and sadomasochismHypatia 17 (2): 99-117. 2002.: Although many women experience harmful behaviors that fit the legal definition of sexual harassment, very few ever label their experiences as such. I explore how psychological ambivalence expressed as sadomasochism may account for some of this gap. Following Lynn Chancer, I argue that certain structural circumstances characteristic of highly stratified bureaucratic organizations may promote these psychological responses. After discussing two illustrations of this dynamic, I draw out the implic…Read more
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