When best practices fall short : gender equality initiatives in organizations
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Despite the vast amount of resources organizations have devoted to achieving gender equality, inequality persists. In this dissertation, I explore the barriers to successful gender equality initiatives. More specifically, I examine how individuals within organizations conceptualize inequality and change, and I analyze how these ideologies impact successful implementation of gender equality initiatives. Existing research has revealed that an organizational commitment to diversity is a crucial component of successful initiatives, yet we lack a clear understanding of what fosters an individualistic vs. organizational orientation toward diversity efforts. I find that employees in elite, high-status industries tend to maintain an individualistic approach to organizational change, in contrast with the structural approach common among sociologists of gender. Ultimately, the potency of the individualistic mindset causes larger structural barriers to diversity to remain entrenched. On a practical level, this dissertation offers insight into ways of fostering an organizational approach to change and improving the effectiveness of diversity initiatives.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2017 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Wynn, Alison Tracy |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Sociology. |
| Primary advisor | Correll, Shelley Joyce |
| Thesis advisor | Correll, Shelley Joyce |
| Thesis advisor | Grusky, David B |
| Thesis advisor | Powell, Walter W |
| Advisor | Grusky, David B |
| Advisor | Powell, Walter W |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Alison Tracy Wynn. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Sociology. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2017. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2017 by Alison Tracy Wynn
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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