Academic women: A study on the queen bee phenomenon

Q3 Social Sciences
M. B. Gomes Neto, R. Grangeiro, Catherine Esnard
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Abstract Purpose: In masculine and extremely competitive organizational contexts, women who succeed in their careers exhibit behaviors that hinder, rather than help, other women to develop professionally. This phenomenon is called queen bee. In this article, we aim to identify whether the queen bee phenomenon is present in higher education institutions (HEI) in Brazil. Originality/value: Although the queen bee phenomenon as a gender inequality metaphor is not a recent topic in scientific literature, its analysis in Brazilian HEI reveals the original character of the study. Design/methodology/approach: The quantitative study has a sample of 495 women who work in HEI. The MANOVAs test was used to verify the hypotheses. Findings: The results show that the knowledge domain impacts more on the queen bee phenomenon than the variables of the organizational context. In addition, women in leadership positions are more engaged at work, have more masculine traits, identify themselves with women at the top of the hierarchy, deny gender discrimination and tend to be more adept at meritocratic discourse than women who are not in leadership positions, confirming that women who hold leadership positions in Brazilian HEI present queen bee traits.
学术女性:蜂王现象的研究
目的:在男性化和极度竞争的组织环境中,在事业上取得成功的女性表现出阻碍而不是帮助其他女性职业发展的行为。这种现象被称为蜂王。在这篇文章中,我们的目的是确定是否蜂王现象存在于高等教育机构(HEI)在巴西。原创性/价值:虽然蜂王现象作为一种性别不平等的隐喻在科学文献中不是一个最近的话题,但对巴西高等教育的分析揭示了该研究的原创性。设计/方法/方法:定量研究的样本是在高等教育机构工作的495名妇女。使用方差分析检验来验证假设。研究发现:知识领域对蜂王现象的影响大于组织情境的影响。此外,处于领导地位的女性在工作中更投入,有更多的男性特征,认同自己是处于高层的女性,否认性别歧视,而且往往比非领导职位的女性更擅长精英话语,证实了巴西HEI中担任领导职位的女性呈现出蜂王特征。
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Revista de Administracao Mackenzie
Revista de Administracao Mackenzie Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science
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