Confronting social dominance ideology: how professional women manage career stereotypes in male-dominated occupations

IF 2.7 3区 管理学 Q2 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR
Babatunde Akanji, Chima Mordi, Hakeem Adeniyi Ajonbadi
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Abstract

Purpose

Using social dominance theory as a conceptual lens, this study explores how female managers and professionals strive to defy the perceived career stereotypes in traditionally male-dominated occupations.

Design/methodology/approach

The dataset comprises 30 interviews with female bank managers and senior engineers in Nigeria – a non-Western location and work group – a sample that is considered under-researched.

Findings

The qualitative analysis identifies how the interviewed women adopted three strategies in managing gender and career stereotypes, with some expressing concerns of experiencing emotional dissonance as they contend with occupational segregation based on gender.

Research limitations/implications

The extent to which the findings can be generalised may be constrained by the study’s limited sample size. Nevertheless, the findings shed light on the underlying importance of disclosing how working women exert themselves in navigating the social dominance ideology in Nigeria that is notable for extreme gender role differentiation. This often results in an intensification of the efforts made by female professionals in confronting the endemic nature of male chauvinism in Nigerian organisations.

Originality/value

Research on gender and career constraints has, in the main, restricted our understanding of the barriers that Nigerian women face in their careers as a result of the masculine hegemony perpetuated by social dominance. The present study aims to challenge, however, proponents of social dominance by unveiling the mitigating strategies that women living in an inegalitarian society adopt to confront occupational male-group ascendency.

对抗社会主导意识形态:职业女性如何在男性主导的职业中应对职业定型观念
目的 本研究以社会主导理论为概念视角,探讨女性管理人员和专业人员如何在传统上以男性为主的职业中努力抵制所感知到的职业定型观念。研究数据集包括对尼日利亚(一个非西方国家和工作群体)的女性银行经理和高级工程师的 30 次访谈,该样本被认为研究不足。研究结果定性分析确定了受访女性在管理性别和职业陈规定型观念时采取的三种策略,其中一些女性表达了在应对基于性别的职业隔离时经历情感失调的担忧。尽管如此,研究结果还是揭示了揭示职业女性如何在尼日利亚的社会主导意识形态中发挥自身作用的重要性,尼日利亚的社会主导意识形态以极端的性别角色分化而著称。原创性/价值 关于性别和职业限制的研究,主要限制了我们对尼日利亚妇女在其职业生涯中所面临的 障碍的理解,这些障碍是由社会主导地位所延续的男性霸权造成的。然而,本研究旨在通过揭示生活在非平等社会中的妇女在面对男性群体的职业优势时所采取的缓解策略,来挑战社会主导地位的支持者。
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Employee Relations
Employee Relations Multiple-
CiteScore
6.50
自引率
8.80%
发文量
69
期刊介绍: ■Communication, participation and involvement ■Developments in collective bargaining ■Equal opportunities ■Health and safety ■HRM ■Industrial relations and employment protection law ■Industrial relations management and reform ■Organizational change and people ■Personnel and recruitment ■Quality of working life
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