Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of boxes
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction to applied social psychology
- 2 The USE of theory in applied social psychology
- 3 Applications of social psychology to increase the impact of behaviour-focused intervention
- 4 Research designs in applied social psychology
- 5 Social psychology and economic behaviour: heuristics and biases in decision making and judgement
- 6 Social psychology and immigration: relations between immigrants and host societies
- 7 Applying social psychology to the classroom
- 8 Social psychology and environmental problems
- 9 Gender issues in work and organizations
- 10 Social psychology of health and illness
- 11 Social psychology and mental health
- 12 Social psychology and modern organizations: balancing between innovativeness and comfort
- 13 Social psychology and the study of politics
- Index
- References
9 - Gender issues in work and organizations
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of boxes
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction to applied social psychology
- 2 The USE of theory in applied social psychology
- 3 Applications of social psychology to increase the impact of behaviour-focused intervention
- 4 Research designs in applied social psychology
- 5 Social psychology and economic behaviour: heuristics and biases in decision making and judgement
- 6 Social psychology and immigration: relations between immigrants and host societies
- 7 Applying social psychology to the classroom
- 8 Social psychology and environmental problems
- 9 Gender issues in work and organizations
- 10 Social psychology of health and illness
- 11 Social psychology and mental health
- 12 Social psychology and modern organizations: balancing between innovativeness and comfort
- 13 Social psychology and the study of politics
- Index
- References
Summary
Introduction
Gender stands for the expectations of an individual and others about what it means to be a man or a woman. Gender has been extensively studied in all fields of social psychology, for instance, in the psychology of health and mental health, education, criminality and political behaviour, to name just a few topics included in this book. The present chapter is about gender in work and organizational psychology. We first describe the societal context that gave rise to theories and research on gender and work. There are many differences between working men and women that often are disadvantageous for women. On average, women earn less than men for the same work, and have a lower probability of reaching top positions in organizations. We then focus on career-related decision making: women's own decisions and the decisions of others involved in selection and assessment. We pay special attention to women in management and leadership positions. After discussing the influence of the organizational context we finish by briefly discussing interventions that have been applied to change the relative position of men and women in organizations.
Women and men at work
Gender differences in the workplace concern both the amount of work and payment (quantitative differences) and the type of work (qualitative differences) that men and women perform.
Quantitative differences
Four quantitative differences characterize the working life of men and women. First, more men than women hold a paid job or earn an income.
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- Applied Social PsychologyUnderstanding and Managing Social Problems, pp. 206 - 225Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008
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