Swinging Between Perceptions: Gender Awareness and Gender Blindness in Women-to-Women Working Relationships
(2024) BUSN49 20241Department of Business Administration
- Abstract
- This study aims to contribute to the understanding of how junior women and senior women supervisors experience women-to-women working relationships and its impact on junior women’s careers, thus adding insights into improving women’s career development and representation in organizational leadership. Gender ideologies or strategies for approaching gender differences serve as frameworks, whether towards embracing (gender awareness) or downplaying them (gender blindness).
Junior and senior women apply both gender awareness and gender blindness, thereby performing pendulum-swinging between gender ideologies depending on the relationship context. This pendulum-swinging was found in how women build mentoring relations outside supervision–a... (More) - This study aims to contribute to the understanding of how junior women and senior women supervisors experience women-to-women working relationships and its impact on junior women’s careers, thus adding insights into improving women’s career development and representation in organizational leadership. Gender ideologies or strategies for approaching gender differences serve as frameworks, whether towards embracing (gender awareness) or downplaying them (gender blindness).
Junior and senior women apply both gender awareness and gender blindness, thereby performing pendulum-swinging between gender ideologies depending on the relationship context. This pendulum-swinging was found in how women build mentoring relations outside supervision–a significant capability that enables junior women’s confidence in pursuing career development. Analyzing how women approach gender differences also uncovers a more nuanced understanding of the working relationship beyond the contrast of positive and negative women-to-women behaviors. (Less)
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- author
- Tria, Angeline Cleofe LU and Astari, Nanda LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- BUSN49 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- Gender, gender awareness, gender blindness, women, careers, career development, gender equality
- language
- English
- id
- 9155141
- date added to LUP
- 2024-06-10 14:36:51
- date last changed
- 2024-06-10 14:36:51
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