Amy Wharton
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 353685 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Amy Wharton |
| NOMBRES | Amy |
| APELLIDO | Wharton |
| FIRMA | WHARTON A |
| AFILIACIONES | Washington State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9763-1655 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 837 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1986 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
Goldin, C. (2021). Career & Family
Working in America
Mothers at Work
Worklife Balance
PSA Presidential Address (Un)Changing Institutions
Change is never linear, all-encompassing, or necessarily forward moving. In this essay, I explore the pace, prospects, and pathways for change in work, family, and gender at the societal and organizational levels. After a lengthy period of sustained progress, movement toward greater gender equality has slowed. This slowing has been accompanied by new cultural narratives about gender and gender inequality. These narratives have also penetrated org…
The Past, Present, and Future of a Regional Sociological Association
Emotional Labor
Work and Family in the 21st Century
During the last half of the 20th century, married women with children moved into the labor force in large numbers. This change, which occurred throughout the industrialized world, dramatically altered work, family, and gender roles. Working parents today juggle demanding jobs and busy family lives and find it increasingly difficult to balance these activities. Work‐family conflict has become a pressing social issue. This article examines four are…
Raising the Global Floor
The Sociology of Arlie Hochschild
Arlie Hochschild is one of the most influential sociologists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Her many contributions include her research on emotion and emotion work, the gender division of labor in the household, work-family relations, and the global dimensions of carework. A less visible aspect of Hochschild's career involves her efforts to nurture, encourage, and engage those inspired by her work. This essay examines Hochschild's influence as r…
The Sociology of Emotional Labor
Emotional labor refers to the process by which workers are expected to manage their feelings in accordance with organizationally defined rules and guidelines. Hochschild's (1983) The Managed Heart introduced this concept and inspired an outpouring of research on this topic. This article reviews theory and research on emotional labor with a particular focus on its contributions to sociological understandings of workers and jobs. The sociological l…
Use of Formal and Informal Work-Family Policies on the Digital Assembly Line
This study compares work-family policy use among low wage, predominately female call center workers and their more highly paid managers. Both formal policies and the informal work-family arrangements that employees negotiate with their supervisors were examined. Consistent with the work devotion perspective, it was found that formal work-family policies are more widely used among hourly workers than managers, and those with better performance eva…
Long Work Hours and Family Life
Work-family conflict is a pressing research and policy issue. The authors extend previous scholarship on this issue by studying elite employees'worries about the effects of longwork hours on those in their personal life. This issue is researched cross-nationally in a sample of managers and professionals based in the United States, London, and Hong Kong, all of whom work for one division of a high-commitment, global, financial services firm. Hong …
Mothers in Finance
This article explores two dimensions of well-being among five hundred finance managers and professionals in a large firm: higher income, which we regard as a proxy for career success, and work-family balance. These dimensions are partially incompatible: longer work hours are associated with higher earnings and with intensified conflict. Mothers are more likely than fathers to experience work-family conflict. Work that is overwhelming and unpredic…
Organizational Commitment and Constraints on Work-Family Policy Use
Academics, policy makers, and human resource professionals advocate flexibility policies as a way to help employees balance work and family and to promote a more committed workforce for employers. This mutually beneficial scenario assumes that employees are interested in work-family policies and perceive themselves as being able to use them. We examine these issues among managers and professionals in a global, high-commitment firm. Our analysis o…
Living across Institutions
Occupational sex segregation is well documented. Research on voluntary associations shows that these also are segregated by sex. However, little is known about the connections between these institutions. In this research, we explore the effects of occupational sex composition on the sex composition of respondents' voluntary memberships. We find a positive relationship between the sex composition of men's occupations and the sex composition of the…
Employees' Use of Work-Family Policies and the Workplace Social Context
This article analyzes the effects of workplace social context on managers' and professionals' use of work-family policies in a financial services corporation. These official policies are ambiguous and contested and, as institutional theory implies, may fail to become fully implemented. We use a multilevel model to determine the individual-level and work group-level factors that affect respondents' policy use. In addition to individual-level facto…
The 'Overtime Culture' in a Global Corporation
This article uses a multilevel model to study financial professionals' expressed interest in working part-time. The sample includes 260 financial professionals in the United States, Hong Kong, and Great Britain who do similar work for one division of one multinational company headquartered in the United States. The authors find that the hours worked are similarly long across countries. Critical constituents, that is, employees with family respons…
On the Front Line
Job-Level Sex Composition and the Sex Pay Gap in a Large Japanese Firm
Feminism at Work
This article examines the contributions of feminist scholarship to the study of work, occupations, and organizations. Three themes in the literature are explored: (1) characteristics of housework and so-called women's work more generally; (2) economic inequality between men and women; and (3) structural and institutional bases of gender in the workplace. Feminist activists have shaped the direction of feminist scholarship on these themes, and thi…
The Psychosocial Consequences of Emotional Labor
Understanding the psychological consequences of emotional labor for workers has been an ongoing project among students of emotional labor. Drawing on Hochschild's pathbreaking work in this area, five major streams of qualitative and quantitative research have emerged, including (1) the experiences of workers who perform emotional labor; (2) comparisons between performers and nonperformers of emotional labor; (3) the conditions under which emotion…
Doing for Others on the Job
Doing for Others on the Job: The Affective Requirements of Service Work, Gender, and Emotional Well-Being Get access Ferguson Heather Bulan, Ferguson Heather Bulan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Rebecca J. Erickson, Rebecca J. Erickson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Amy S. Wharton Amy S. Wharton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academ…
When Mothers Matter
Previous studies suggest that social class, class background, and social mobility have important consequences for family life. Exploring hypotheses derived from these studies, as well as the literature on intergenerational relations, the authors focus on one key aspect of family relations: adult daughters' ties to their mothers. Analyzing data from the National Survey of Families and Households, the authors explore how employed women's relations …
Inauthenticity and Depression
Interactive service jobs are an increasingly important feature of the occupational landscape. Despite over a decade of rising employment within this segment of the economy, researchers are only beginning to specify the occupational conditions of service sector jobs and the mechanisms through which such conditions may affect mental health. Here we examine the experience of inauthenticity on the job as useful not only for understanding workers' res…
The Sociology of Emotional Labor
Emotional labor refers to the process by which workers are expected to manage their feelings in accordance with organizationally defined rules and guidelines. Hochschild's (1983) The Managed Heart introduced this concept and inspired an outpouring of research on this topic. This article reviews theory and research on emotional labor with a particular focus on its contributions to sociological understandings of workers and jobs. The sociological l…
Employees' Use of Work-Family Policies and the Workplace Social Context
This article analyzes the effects of workplace social context on managers' and professionals' use of work-family policies in a financial services corporation. These official policies are ambiguous and contested and, as institutional theory implies, may fail to become fully implemented. We use a multilevel model to determine the individual-level and work group-level factors that affect respondents' policy use. In addition to individual-level facto…
The Affective Consequences of Service Work
Understanding the social-psychology effects of frontline service work requires attention to the emotional labor performed by incumbents of these positions. Using Hochschild's 1983 classification of jobs requiring emotional labor, this study examines the effects of emotional labor on workers employed in the banking and hospital industries. The results suggest that performance of emotional labor does not have uniformly negative consequences for wor…
So Happy Together? The Impact of Gender Segregation on Men at Work
How does gender segregation at work affects men's well-being, as expressed in their psychological orientations toward work? Analyzing a sample of employed males in the 1973 Quality of Employment Survey, we find that men in mixed work settings report significantly lower job-related satisfaction and self-esteem and more job-related depression than men in either maleor female-dominated work settings, even after controlling for individual, job, organ…
The Psychosocial Consequences of Emotional Labor
Understanding the psychological consequences of emotional labor for workers has been an ongoing project among students of emotional labor. Drawing on Hochschild's pathbreaking work in this area, five major streams of qualitative and quantitative research have emerged, including (1) the experiences of workers who perform emotional labor; (2) comparisons between performers and nonperformers of emotional labor; (3) the conditions under which emotion…
Use of Formal and Informal Work-Family Policies on the Digital Assembly Line
This study compares work-family policy use among low wage, predominately female call center workers and their more highly paid managers. Both formal policies and the informal work-family arrangements that employees negotiate with their supervisors were examined. Consistent with the work devotion perspective, it was found that formal work-family policies are more widely used among hourly workers than managers, and those with better performance eva…
The 'Overtime Culture' in a Global Corporation
This article uses a multilevel model to study financial professionals' expressed interest in working part-time. The sample includes 260 financial professionals in the United States, Hong Kong, and Great Britain who do similar work for one division of one multinational company headquartered in the United States. The authors find that the hours worked are similarly long across countries. Critical constituents, that is, employees with family respons…
Long Work Hours and Family Life
Work-family conflict is a pressing research and policy issue. The authors extend previous scholarship on this issue by studying elite employees'worries about the effects of longwork hours on those in their personal life. This issue is researched cross-nationally in a sample of managers and professionals based in the United States, London, and Hong Kong, all of whom work for one division of a high-commitment, global, financial services firm. Hong …
Doing for Others on the Job
Doing for Others on the Job: The Affective Requirements of Service Work, Gender, and Emotional Well-Being Get access Ferguson Heather Bulan, Ferguson Heather Bulan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Rebecca J. Erickson, Rebecca J. Erickson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Amy S. Wharton Amy S. Wharton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academ…
Inauthenticity and Depression
Interactive service jobs are an increasingly important feature of the occupational landscape. Despite over a decade of rising employment within this segment of the economy, researchers are only beginning to specify the occupational conditions of service sector jobs and the mechanisms through which such conditions may affect mental health. Here we examine the experience of inauthenticity on the job as useful not only for understanding workers' res…
Organizational Commitment and Constraints on Work-Family Policy Use
Academics, policy makers, and human resource professionals advocate flexibility policies as a way to help employees balance work and family and to promote a more committed workforce for employers. This mutually beneficial scenario assumes that employees are interested in work-family policies and perceive themselves as being able to use them. We examine these issues among managers and professionals in a global, high-commitment firm. Our analysis o…
The Consequences of Caring
Sociologists of emotion have examined the ways that workers are required to manage their emotions on the job, while studies of family emotion work reveal the effort involved in providing emotional support at home. Analyzing data collected from married or cohabiting women hospital workers, we examine the relations between women's job and family emotion work and the effects of both on women's job-related well-being. Consistent with "scarcity" views…
Satisfaction
This study analyzes 1973 Quality of Employment Survey data to examine how work-place gender composition affects women's work-related psychological well-being. With individual, job, and organizational characteristics controlled, women in predominantly-male work settings are the most satisfied with their jobs. This supports theories that women's intergroup relations improve as their relative numbers decline and previous accounts of women's social c…
Mothers in Finance
This article explores two dimensions of well-being among five hundred finance managers and professionals in a large firm: higher income, which we regard as a proxy for career success, and work-family balance. These dimensions are partially incompatible: longer work hours are associated with higher earnings and with intensified conflict. Mothers are more likely than fathers to experience work-family conflict. Work that is overwhelming and unpredic…
Structure and Agency in Socialist-Feminist Theory
A long-standing debate in social theory concerns the relative merits of structural approaches versus those that highlight the social actor. This article examines how various feminist approaches to gender inequality have incorporated assumptions about structure and agency, and suggests that existing perspectives could be improved by linking gender as a structural property of social organization and as a property of actors. Suggestions for an alter…
Work and Family in the 21st Century
During the last half of the 20th century, married women with children moved into the labor force in large numbers. This change, which occurred throughout the industrialized world, dramatically altered work, family, and gender roles. Working parents today juggle demanding jobs and busy family lives and find it increasingly difficult to balance these activities. Work‐family conflict has become a pressing social issue. This article examines four are…
Raising the Global Floor
Feminism at Work
This article examines the contributions of feminist scholarship to the study of work, occupations, and organizations. Three themes in the literature are explored: (1) characteristics of housework and so-called women's work more generally; (2) economic inequality between men and women; and (3) structural and institutional bases of gender in the workplace. Feminist activists have shaped the direction of feminist scholarship on these themes, and thi…
PSA Presidential Address (Un)Changing Institutions
Change is never linear, all-encompassing, or necessarily forward moving. In this essay, I explore the pace, prospects, and pathways for change in work, family, and gender at the societal and organizational levels. After a lengthy period of sustained progress, movement toward greater gender equality has slowed. This slowing has been accompanied by new cultural narratives about gender and gender inequality. These narratives have also penetrated org…
When Mothers Matter
Previous studies suggest that social class, class background, and social mobility have important consequences for family life. Exploring hypotheses derived from these studies, as well as the literature on intergenerational relations, the authors focus on one key aspect of family relations: adult daughters' ties to their mothers. Analyzing data from the National Survey of Families and Households, the authors explore how employed women's relations …
The Sociology of Arlie Hochschild
Arlie Hochschild is one of the most influential sociologists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Her many contributions include her research on emotion and emotion work, the gender division of labor in the household, work-family relations, and the global dimensions of carework. A less visible aspect of Hochschild's career involves her efforts to nurture, encourage, and engage those inspired by her work. This essay examines Hochschild's influence as r…
Living across Institutions
Occupational sex segregation is well documented. Research on voluntary associations shows that these also are segregated by sex. However, little is known about the connections between these institutions. In this research, we explore the effects of occupational sex composition on the sex composition of respondents' voluntary memberships. We find a positive relationship between the sex composition of men's occupations and the sex composition of the…
The Past, Present, and Future of a Regional Sociological Association
Job-Level Sex Composition and the Sex Pay Gap in a Large Japanese Firm
Life Spaces
Introduction, Caroline Andrew and Beth Moore Milroy building women, building cities - toward gender sensitive theory in the environmental disciplines, Suzanne Mackenzie women workers and the inner city - some implications of labour force restructuring in Montreal 1971-81, Damaris Rose and Paul Villeneuve, with Fiona Colgan practical idealism - women in urban reform, Julia Drummond and the Montreal Parks and Playgrounds Association, Jeanne M. Wolf…
Gender Segregation and the Dual Economy
Gender divisions are embedded in and essential to the structure of capitalist production. While most men and women in the United States both now work for wages, they rarely work together. Gender segregation has been identified as one of the major issues of the earnings gap between men and women. An explanation of the forces responsible for this has been difficult to achieve. Most theories fail to consider the contribution of demand‐side factors t…
Industry Structure and Gender Segregation in Blue-Collar Occupations
Journal Article Industry Structure and Gender Segregation in Blue-Collar Occupations Get access Amy S. Wharton Amy S. Wharton Stanford University Address correspondence to the author, Department of Sociology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 64, Issue 4, June 1986, Pages 1025–1031, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/64.4.1025 Published: 01 June 1986
So Happy Together? The Impact of Gender Segregation on Men at Work
How does gender segregation at work affects men's well-being, as expressed in their psychological orientations toward work? Analyzing a sample of employed males in the 1973 Quality of Employment Survey, we find that men in mixed work settings report significantly lower job-related satisfaction and self-esteem and more job-related depression than men in either maleor female-dominated work settings, even after controlling for individual, job, organ…
Does Gender Have a Place in Stratification Theory
Men, Women, and Work
Pockets of Hate
Class and Ethnicity in the Pale
Structure and Agency in Socialist-Feminist Theory
A long-standing debate in social theory concerns the relative merits of structural approaches versus those that highlight the social actor. This article examines how various feminist approaches to gender inequality have incorporated assumptions about structure and agency, and suggests that existing perspectives could be improved by linking gender as a structural property of social organization and as a property of actors. Suggestions for an alter…
Satisfaction
This study analyzes 1973 Quality of Employment Survey data to examine how work-place gender composition affects women's work-related psychological well-being. With individual, job, and organizational characteristics controlled, women in predominantly-male work settings are the most satisfied with their jobs. This supports theories that women's intergroup relations improve as their relative numbers decline and previous accounts of women's social c…
Life Spaces
Introduction, Caroline Andrew and Beth Moore Milroy building women, building cities - toward gender sensitive theory in the environmental disciplines, Suzanne Mackenzie women workers and the inner city - some implications of labour force restructuring in Montreal 1971-81, Damaris Rose and Paul Villeneuve, with Fiona Colgan practical idealism - women in urban reform, Julia Drummond and the Montreal Parks and Playgrounds Association, Jeanne M. Wolf…
The Affective Consequences of Service Work
Understanding the social-psychology effects of frontline service work requires attention to the emotional labor performed by incumbents of these positions. Using Hochschild's 1983 classification of jobs requiring emotional labor, this study examines the effects of emotional labor on workers employed in the banking and hospital industries. The results suggest that performance of emotional labor does not have uniformly negative consequences for wor…
We're Worth It! Women and the Insurance Workplace . Cynthia B. Costello Sweaters
The Consequences of Caring
Sociologists of emotion have examined the ways that workers are required to manage their emotions on the job, while studies of family emotion work reveal the effort involved in providing emotional support at home. Analyzing data collected from married or cohabiting women hospital workers, we examine the relations between women's job and family emotion work and the effects of both on women's job-related well-being. Consistent with "scarcity" views…
Staying on the Line
Gender Trials
Doing for Others on the Job
Doing for Others on the Job: The Affective Requirements of Service Work, Gender, and Emotional Well-Being Get access Ferguson Heather Bulan, Ferguson Heather Bulan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Rebecca J. Erickson, Rebecca J. Erickson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Amy S. Wharton Amy S. Wharton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academ…
When Mothers Matter
Previous studies suggest that social class, class background, and social mobility have important consequences for family life. Exploring hypotheses derived from these studies, as well as the literature on intergenerational relations, the authors focus on one key aspect of family relations: adult daughters' ties to their mothers. Analyzing data from the National Survey of Families and Households, the authors explore how employed women's relations …
Inauthenticity and Depression
Interactive service jobs are an increasingly important feature of the occupational landscape. Despite over a decade of rising employment within this segment of the economy, researchers are only beginning to specify the occupational conditions of service sector jobs and the mechanisms through which such conditions may affect mental health. Here we examine the experience of inauthenticity on the job as useful not only for understanding workers' res…
The Psychosocial Consequences of Emotional Labor
Understanding the psychological consequences of emotional labor for workers has been an ongoing project among students of emotional labor. Drawing on Hochschild's pathbreaking work in this area, five major streams of qualitative and quantitative research have emerged, including (1) the experiences of workers who perform emotional labor; (2) comparisons between performers and nonperformers of emotional labor; (3) the conditions under which emotion…
Feminism at Work
This article examines the contributions of feminist scholarship to the study of work, occupations, and organizations. Three themes in the literature are explored: (1) characteristics of housework and so-called women's work more generally; (2) economic inequality between men and women; and (3) structural and institutional bases of gender in the workplace. Feminist activists have shaped the direction of feminist scholarship on these themes, and thi…
On the Front Line
Job-Level Sex Composition and the Sex Pay Gap in a Large Japanese Firm
Employees' Use of Work-Family Policies and the Workplace Social Context
This article analyzes the effects of workplace social context on managers' and professionals' use of work-family policies in a financial services corporation. These official policies are ambiguous and contested and, as institutional theory implies, may fail to become fully implemented. We use a multilevel model to determine the individual-level and work group-level factors that affect respondents' policy use. In addition to individual-level facto…
The 'Overtime Culture' in a Global Corporation
This article uses a multilevel model to study financial professionals' expressed interest in working part-time. The sample includes 260 financial professionals in the United States, Hong Kong, and Great Britain who do similar work for one division of one multinational company headquartered in the United States. The authors find that the hours worked are similarly long across countries. Critical constituents, that is, employees with family respons…
Living across Institutions
Occupational sex segregation is well documented. Research on voluntary associations shows that these also are segregated by sex. However, little is known about the connections between these institutions. In this research, we explore the effects of occupational sex composition on the sex composition of respondents' voluntary memberships. We find a positive relationship between the sex composition of men's occupations and the sex composition of the…
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