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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#555555;font-weight:normal">Unpacking the Status-Leveling Burden for Women in Male-Dominated Occupations<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book""> <a href="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">https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00018392211038505?s=09</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"AdvPSA35F",sans-serif">Abstract<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"AdvPSA35B",sans-serif">The challenges faced by women in male-dominated occupations are often<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"AdvPSA35B",sans-serif">attributed to the men in, and masculine cultures of, these occupations—and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"AdvPSA35B",sans-serif">sometimes to senior women in these occupations who may fail to give a ‘‘leg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"AdvPSA35B",sans-serif">up’’ to the women coming up behind them. As such, prior research has largely<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"AdvPSA35B",sans-serif">focused on challenges that women experience from those of higher or equal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"AdvPSA35B",sans-serif">status within the occupation and on the negative climate that surrounds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"AdvPSA35B",sans-serif">women in these positions. We introduce a novel challenge, the status-leveling<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"AdvPSA35B",sans-serif">burden, which is the pressure put on women in male-dominated occupations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"AdvPSA35B",sans-serif">from women in occupations lower in the institutional hierarchy to be their<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"AdvPSA35B",sans-serif">equal. Drawing on interviews with 45 surgeons, we present a model that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"AdvPSA35B",sans-serif">unpacks this status-leveling burden. Our research makes novel contributions to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"AdvPSA35B",sans-serif">the literatures on challenges to women in male-dominated occupations and on<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"AdvPSA35B",sans-serif">shared demography in cross-occupational collaboration, and it suggests new<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"AdvPSA35B",sans-serif">avenues for research at the intersection of gender and occupational status in<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"AdvPSA35B",sans-serif">the workplace.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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