“I Am in Room 523”

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 215-220
Author(s):  
Kathleen Burke ◽  
Shafik Bhalloo ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Professional Association ◽  
Annual Convention ◽  
Workplace Culture ◽  
Women In Stem ◽  
Women In Engineering ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Competing Interests ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
Investigation Report

Initiatives to encourage more women in STEM-related industries have had mixed results. Adding more women to longstanding male-dominated STEM occupations has highlighted issues in workplace culture that are hostile to women. In this case, the CEO of an engineers' professional association, NSE, is accused of making a sexually suggestive remark to two female engineers at the annual convention. One of the women, Claire, lodged a complaint with the board. After reviewing the investigation report, the board voted to ask the CEO to quietly apologize to both women. Claire, in the meantime, posted a negative review of the NSE's handling of her complaint which is getting considerable media attention. The purpose of this case is for students to examine the competing interests NSE faces in promoting the safety of female members, protecting its reputation for advancing the profession and women in engineering and supporting an otherwise “brilliant CEO”.

Navigating the Gendered Math Path

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-174
Author(s):  
Christina D. Weber ◽  
Angie Hodge
Keyword(s):  
Gender Norms ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Doing Gender ◽  
Women In Stem ◽  
Stem Fields ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Good Science ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
Mathematics Coursework

Using dialogues with our informants, as well as with each other, we explore how the men and women in our research make it through their mathematics coursework and, in turn, pursue their intended majors. Our research focuses on how students navigate what we call the gendered math path and how that path conforms to and diverges from traditional gender norms. Common themes of women's lower than men's self-perception of their ability to do mathematics, along with the divergent processes of doing gender that emerged in men's and women's discussions of their application of mathematics, reminded us of the continued struggles that women have to succeed in male-dominated academic disciplines. Although self-perception helps us understand why there are fewer women in STEM fields, it is important to understand how different forms of application of ideas might add to the diversity of what it means to do good science.

scholarly journals A Research Informed Suggestion for a Gender Diversity Policy at Uber Technologies

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ammar Almustafa
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Business Case ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Gender And Work ◽  
Diversity Policy ◽  
Identity Threats ◽  
Male Dominated

<p>This policy is advanced in a transformative proactive manner to address the needs of Uber Technologies to manage diversity in a male-dominated tech sector. The policy is proposed after a series of internal struggles and unflattering media attention to help delineate the procedure as well as the rationale for the achieving gender diversity. Social identity and Social identity threats are discussed in relation to gender and work as well as the business case for diversity in a tech company. Recommendations and advice are made to advance diversity and manage resistance on an individual level, an organizational culture level and a procedure level.</p>

scholarly journals Diversity Policy Uber - Preprint.docx

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ammar Almustafa
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Business Case ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Gender And Work ◽  
Diversity Policy ◽  
Identity Threats ◽  
Male Dominated

<p>This policy is advanced in a transformative proactive manner to address the needs of Uber Technologies to manage diversity in a male-dominated tech sector. The policy is proposed after a series of internal struggles and unflattering media attention to help delineate the procedure as well as the rationale for the achieving gender diversity. Social identity and Social identity threats are discussed in relation to gender and work as well as the business case for diversity in a tech company. Recommendations and advice are made to advance diversity and manage resistance on an individual level, an organizational culture level and a procedure level.</p>

A Research Informed Suggestion for a Gender Diversity Policy at Uber Technologies

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ammar Almustafa
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Business Case ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Gender And Work ◽  
Diversity Policy ◽  
Identity Threats ◽  
Male Dominated

<p>This policy is advanced in a transformative proactive manner to address the needs of Uber Technologies to manage diversity in a male-dominated tech sector. The policy is proposed after a series of internal struggles and unflattering media attention to help delineate the procedure as well as the rationale for the achieving gender diversity. Social identity and Social identity threats are discussed in relation to gender and work as well as the business case for diversity in a tech company. Recommendations and advice are made to advance diversity and manage resistance on an individual level, an organizational culture level and a procedure level.</p>

ASHA Convention 2013

ASHA Leader ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 46-48
Keyword(s):  
Ice Cream ◽  
Annual Convention ◽  
The City ◽  
Rich History

This year's Annual Convention features some sweet new twists like ice cream and free wi-fi. But it also draws on a rich history as it returns to Chicago, the city where the association's seeds were planted way back in 1930. Read on through our special convention section for a full flavor of can't-miss events, helpful tips, and speakers who remind why you do what you do.

Instrumentality and Expressiveness at Work

2014 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 111-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonja Sobiraj ◽  
Sabine Korek ◽  
Thomas Rigotti
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Work Roles ◽  
Professional Work ◽  
Gender Typicality ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
Role Demands

Men’s professional work roles require different attributes according to the gender-typicality of their occupation (female- versus male-dominated). We predicted that levels of men’s strain and job satisfaction would be predicted by levels of self-ascribed instrumental and expressive attributes. Therefore, we tested for positive effects of instrumentality for men in general, and instrumentality in interaction with expressiveness for men in female-dominated occupations in particular. Data were based on a survey of 213 men working in female-dominated occupations and 99 men working in male-dominated occupations. We found instrumentality to be negatively related to men’s strain and positively related to their job satisfaction. We also found expressiveness of men in female-dominated occupations to be related to reduced strain when instrumentality was low. This suggests it is important for men to be able to identify highly with either instrumentality or expressiveness when regulating role demands in female-dominated occupations.

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