A Vicious Oval
Why Women Seldom Reach the Top in American Harness Racing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2365191 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth A Larsen (University of Pittsburgh), Elizabeth Larsen (0000-0002-6257-6190, University of Pittsburgh, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 119-147 |
| Publication date | 2006-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-2416 • E-ISSN: 1552-5414 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0891241605280444 |
| OpenAlex | W1993904143 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 50 |
This article explores the gendered contradictions of visibility for self-employed women in male-dominated occupations. It provides a link between the extant literature on women's workplace issues with visibility and the recent, dramatic increase in self-employed women, especially those who work in male-dominated fields. The author uses a harness-horse racetrack as the site for exploring the social mechanisms behind the invisibility and negative visibility experienced by these women in their work. Through an ethnographic study of their daily work experiences, an insidious pattern of events surfaced in which every path leads to the same endpoint: the underutilization of self-employed women in a male-dominated field. This article also explores the social processes and pressures that lead these women to contribute to their own oppression in male-dominated fields
Ethnography · Extant taxon · Field (mathematics · Geography · Invisibility · Negotiation · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Visibility · Work (physics · Anthropology · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Engineering · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Managing like a man
Women's work, men's work
Women and Men at Work
Work–Family Linkages among Self-Employed Women and Men
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
Gender at Work
In the Way of Women
In the Way of Women
Pushed or Pulled? Women's Entry into Self‐Employment and Small Business Ownership
Family structure, job characteristics, rewards and strains as related to work‐role centrality of employed and self‐employed professional women with children
The experiences of Canadian women in trades and technology
How to Keep a Good Woman Down
Partners in Production? Women, Farm and Family in Ireland
Work in Market and Industrial Societies
Hard Hats
Women’s Participation in Self-Employment in Western Industrialized Nations
The practice of social research
Gaining Autonomy in Self-employment Processes. The Biographical Embeddedness of Women's and Migrants' Business
The Intersection between Gender, the Family and Self-employment
Resources and Relationships
Including Mechanisms in Our Models of Ascriptive Inequality
Taming the Lumberjack
Interviewing by comment
Royal Blue
Royal Blue
Binging
Male/Female Earnings Differences in Self-Employment
Flexible Working Hours, Family Responsibilities, and Female Self-Employment
Gender, Work-Family Linkages, and Economic Success among Small Business Owners
Hard Hats
Work in Market and Industrial Societies
Market Success or Female Autonomy
Ladies, Flirts, and Tomboys
Women Who Go to Sea
Respectability And Autonomy
A Bulwark in a Busy World
Baseball Wives
Women Physicians and the Gendered System of Professions
Women and Traditionally Male Blue-Collar Jobs
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2009 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |