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SSRI/DuPRI Seminar Series ~ "Gender, Sexual Orientation, and Backlash in the Labor Market"

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Thursday, October 23, 2014
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Marina Gorsuch, PhD Student (Duke University)
DuPRI Seminar Series

ABSTRACT: A broad literature in social psychology has established that respondents react negatively when women engage in traditionally masculine actions in the workplace (Heilman and Chen 2005; Heilman, Wallen, Fuchs, and Tamkins 2004; Rudman and Glick 1999; Rudman 1998; Rudman and Glick 2001; Bowles, Babcock, and Lai 2006; Amanatullah and Morris 2010). This negative reaction is described as a "backlash effect." In this study, I test two hypotheses. First, I examine if resumes that use masculine adjectives inspire backlash against female job applicants in a laboratory setting and if this backlash varies by the sexual orientation of the applicant. Second, I take the question of backlash outside of a laboratory environment to see if real employers have the same response as respondents in a laboratory to traditionally masculine actions. Seminar #4382

Type: LECTURE/TALK
Contact: Vickie Bowes