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dc.contributor.authorNadin, Sara J.*
dc.contributor.authorDick, P.*
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-02T13:39:26Z
dc.date.available2009-06-02T13:39:26Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.identifier.citationNadin, S. and Dick, P. (2006). Reproducing gender inequalities? A critique of `realist' assumptions related to organizational attraction and adjustment. Journal of Occupational and Organisational Psychology. 79(3): 481-498.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10454/2740
dc.descriptionNoen
dc.description.abstractOccupational discrimination and segregation along gendered lines continue to be seen as problematic throughout the UK and the USA. Women continue to be attracted to occupations that are considered to be women's work, such as clerical, secretarial and personal service work, and inequalities persist even when women enter traditional male domains such as management Work psychology's chief, though indirect, contribution to this field has been through personnel selection research, where methods aimed at helping organizations to make more fair and unbiased selection decisions have been carefully examined. Our aim in this paper is to argue that, on their own, such methods can make very little difference to the position of women (and other minorities) in work organizations. The processes that are fundamental to organizational attraction and adjustment cannot, we contend, be understood adequately through reductionist approaches that treat organizational and individual characteristics as context independent realities. Drawing on critical management research and using the specific example of police work, we argue that work roles and work identities can be more fruitfully understood as social constructions that, when deconstructed, illuminate more powerfully how processes that lead to the relative subordination of women (and other groups) are both reproduced and challenged.en
dc.language.isoenen
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dc.subjectSocial groupen
dc.subjectWomenen
dc.subjectSocial environmenten
dc.subjectFemininity masculinityen
dc.subjectCultural environmenten
dc.subjectSexismen
dc.subjectOccupational selectionen
dc.subjectCritical studyen
dc.subjectPersonnel selectionen
dc.titleReproducing gender inequalities? A critique of `realist' assumptions related to organizational attraction and adjustmenten
dc.status.refereedYesen
dc.typeArticleen
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