Gender and the MBA
Differences in Career Trajectories, Institutional Support, and Outcomes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2367972 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E Patterson (0000-0002-5040-7576, The Pennsylvania State University, USA, corresponding author), Sarah E Patterson, Damaske (0000-0002-2464-9299, The Pennsylvania State University, USA), Sarah Damaske, Christen Sheroff (The Pennsylvania State University, USA) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 310-332 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Gender & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-2432 • E-ISSN: 1552-3977 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0891243217703630 |
| PMID | 29706689 |
| OpenAlex | W2606542895 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 30 |
This study asks how men's and women's careers diverge following MBA graduation from an elite university, using qualitative interview data from 74 respondents. We discover men and women follow three career pathways post-graduation: lockstep (stable employment), transitory (3 or more employers), and exit (left workforce). While similar proportions of men and women followed the lockstep pathways and launched accelerated careers, sizable gender differences emerged on the transitory pathway; men's careers soared as women's faltered on this path-the modal category for both. On the transitory path, men fared much better than women when moving to new organizations, suggesting that gender may become more salient when people have a shorter work history with a company. Our findings suggest that clear building blocks to promotions reduce gender bias and ambiguity in the promotion process, but multiple external moves hamper women, putting them at a clear disadvantage to men whose forward progress is less likely to be stalled by such moves
Ambiguity · Career Pathways · Demographic economics · Disadvantage · Economics · Elite · Medical education · Political science · Salient · Sociology · Workforce · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges
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Gendered Queer Occupational Disparities in Male-Dominated Professions
Precarious Professionals
Work as overload or enhancement for family caregivers of older adults
Career capital and the MBA
Gendered labour process
Hegemonic masculinity or masculine domination
Labor Force Participation Over the Life Course
Family Duties and Job Flexibility
Politics as a transitory vocation
My Tears Have Dried from Crying, I Want to Laugh Now
The Package Deal
The cultural contradictions of motherhood
Do Babies Matter?
Climbing the corporate ladder
Years On
Opting Out
Dynamics of the Gender Gap for Young Professionals in the Financial and Corporate Sectors
The Persistence of Workplace Gender Segregation in the US
The Sociological Imagination
"Being the "Go-To Guy
Precarious Work, Insecure Workers
Work Environment and OPT-out Rates at Motherhood across High-Education Career Paths
Gender Differences in Providing Urgent Childcare among Dual-earner Parents
Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies
Preparing for Parenthood
Just One of the Guys
The Epistemology of the Gendered Organization
Gender Differences in Organizational Commitment
Male Scientists' Competing Devotions to Work and Family
Stalled Progress
High Hopes
The Determinants and Consequences of Workplace Sex and Race Composition
Sex Segregation in the Workplace
Work and Family Research in the First Decade of the 21st Century
Class Advantage and the Gender Divide
Getting a Job
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |