[Womeninmedicine] FW: Unpacking the Status-Leveling Burden for Women in Male-Dominated Occupations

[Weisz, Ora Anna]

Unpacking the Status-Leveling Burden for Women in Male-Dominated Occupations
 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00018392211038505?s=09<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjournals.sagepub.com%2Fdoi%2Ffull%2F10.1177%2F00018392211038505%3Fs%3D09&data=04%7C01%7Cweisz%40pitt.edu%7Cb9b96e6b13444a0f346408d9bf2c4172%7C9ef9f489e0a04eeb87cc3a526112fd0d%7C1%7C0%7C637751019057138786%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=4CS1YO5hSQLAI7mRQ7xObj%2FqzwSopQZSp34pPkD1GO4%3D&reserved=0>

Abstract
The challenges faced by women in male-dominated occupations are often
attributed to the men in, and masculine cultures of, these occupations-and
sometimes to senior women in these occupations who may fail to give a ''leg
up'' to the women coming up behind them. As such, prior research has largely
focused on challenges that women experience from those of higher or equal
status within the occupation and on the negative climate that surrounds
women in these positions. We introduce a novel challenge, the status-leveling
burden, which is the pressure put on women in male-dominated occupations
from women in occupations lower in the institutional hierarchy to be their
equal. Drawing on interviews with 45 surgeons, we present a model that
unpacks this status-leveling burden. Our research makes novel contributions to
the literatures on challenges to women in male-dominated occupations and on
shared demography in cross-occupational collaboration, and it suggests new
avenues for research at the intersection of gender and occupational status in
the workplace.
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