{"id":11139,"date":"2022-04-12T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/?p=11139"},"modified":"2022-04-12T00:17:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T00:17:30","slug":"women-experience-less-dignity-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/2022\/04\/12\/women-experience-less-dignity-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Experience Less Dignity at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='citation'>\n    <span class='authors'>Vincent Roscigno, Jill Yavorsky, and Natasha Quadlin, <\/span><span class='link'><a href=\"https:\/\/www.journals.uchicago.edu\/doi\/10.1086\/717448\">&ldquo;Gendered Dignity at Work,&rdquo; <em>American Journal of Sociology<\/em>,<\/a><\/span><span class='year'> 2022<\/span><\/div>\n\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_11115\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11115\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11115\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/files\/2022\/03\/woman-gd98d6d8b4_1920.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/files\/2022\/03\/woman-gd98d6d8b4_1920.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/files\/2022\/03\/woman-gd98d6d8b4_1920-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/files\/2022\/03\/woman-gd98d6d8b4_1920-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/files\/2022\/03\/woman-gd98d6d8b4_1920-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/files\/2022\/03\/woman-gd98d6d8b4_1920-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11115\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A white blond-haired woman sits in front of her laptop, her head resting on her fist, staring off into the distance. Image via pixabay, pixabay license.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gender and work researchers have long encountered a puzzle: despite persistent gender discrimination, pay gaps, sexual harassment, and segregation within workplaces, women report approximately the same levels of job satisfaction as men. A new <em>American Journal of Sociology<\/em> article shows how \u201cdignity\u201d at work, measured in terms of respect and recognition, helps resolve this paradox.&nbsp;<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To consider whether work experiences of respect and recognition are gendered, <a href=\"https:\/\/sociology.osu.edu\/people\/roscigno.1\">Roscigno<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jillyavorsky.com\">Yavorsky<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/soc.ucla.edu\/people\/natasha-quadlin\">Quadlin<\/a> use nationally-representative survey data from 2002 to 2018. Specifically, the authors examined self-reported measures of job satisfaction, respect at work, fair pay, and fair promotional procedures.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although men and women in this time span report roughly equivalent job satisfaction, women are approximately 20% less likely to say that their pay is fair, and about 27% less likely to perceive fairness in promotion and experience respect at work. In addition, women who had experienced sexual harassment or gender discrimination at work were less likely to report feeling respected at work.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><div class=\"pull-this-show\" id=\"pull-this-show-11139-ex1\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/div>Taken together, these findings indicate that women experience less dignity at work than men, despite reporting comparable levels of job satisfaction. Additionally, what the authors call power-laden, gendered interactions like sexual harassment play a strong part in undermining women\u2019s sense of dignity and respect in the workplace.<span class=\"pull-this-mark\" id=\"pull-this-mark-11139-ex1\" style=\"display:none;\">women experience less dignity at work than men, despite reporting comparable levels of job satisfaction<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vincent Roscigno, Jill Yavorsky, and Natasha Quadlin, &ldquo;Gendered Dignity at Work,&rdquo; American Journal of Sociology, 2022 Gender and work researchers have long encountered a puzzle: despite persistent gender discrimination, pay gaps, sexual harassment, and segregation within workplaces, women report approximately the same levels of job satisfaction as men. 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