Intersectionality at Work: Broadening Understanding of Gender, Race, and Social Penalties and Boosts

Abstract

This symposium brings together work at the cutting edge of intersectionality research to answer questions at the heart of the modern organization – how factors such as gender and race simultaneously impact individuals' experiences and outcomes. As the U.S. workforce rapidly diversifies, comprehensive theory of how gender and race jointly impact individuals’ experiences and outcomes grows more and more crucial in scholarly efforts to understand the interpersonal and intergroup dynamics central to today's diverse organizational climate. Four presentations examine how bringing an intersectional lens to management research can deepen our understanding of identity, hierarchy, and diversity in organizations, with far-reaching implications. We demonstrate that gendered forces often do not operate uniformly across different racial groups, and we offer broad, potentially unifying theoretical frameworks for explaining when, why, and how gendered forces function within versus across racial lines. Asian Women and the Motherhood Penalty: An Intersectional Perspective Presenter: Christy Koval; - Presenter: Sol Jee Susie Lee; Hong Kong U. of Science and Technology The Upside of Intersectional Identities: Conceptual Replications in Support of the MOSAIC Hypothesis Presenter: Erika V. Hall; Emory U., Gozuieta Bus Sch Presenter: Alison V. Hall; U. of Texas At Arlington Gender-Norm Violation and Backlash: The Moderating Role of Shared Racial Group Membership Presenter: Vivian Xiao; Stanford U. Presenter: Brian Lowery; Stanford U. Presenter: Amelia Stillwell; Stanford GSB Gendered Norms for Interracial Contact: Social Penalties for Women in Interracial Relationships Presenter: Amelia Stillwell; Stanford GSB Presenter: Brian Lowery; Stanford U.