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2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
The impact of balanced gender proportions in the workplace: Contrasting theories of in-group bias against status construction theory using Roman-Catholic Monasticism
Authors : Katja Rost, David Seidl
Published in: Unternehmen und Klöster
Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
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Gender inequality in the workplace is a central issue in both management practice and management research (Bohnet, 2016; Bowles & McGinn, 2008; Dobbin, 2009: 61; Phillips, 2005; Ridgeway, 2014). Two central theoretical perspectives proffer different explanations for gender inequality: theories of in-group bias and status construction theory. According to the former (Srivastava & Sherman, 2015; van Knippenberg, De Dreu, & Homan, 2004; van Knippenberg & Schippers, 2007; Williams & O’ Reilly, 1998), gender inequality is a result of the demographic composition of the relevant social context, namely, the under-representation of women in the workplace, which disappears when gender proportions are balanced.