Abstract
mrev management revue , Seite 437 - 457
Highlights
Drawing on ideas by Pierre Bourdieu, this paper analyzes the effects of gender and gender role type (GRT) for objective career success over time
Gender and GRT, both perceived as career capital, progressively affect objective career success over time, with feminine GRT hampering objective career success for both sexes
It draws on ideas of Pierre Bourdieu and allows to prescind from “men” and “women” as points of departure to “relations” as “realisations of historical acting” (Bourdieu/Wacquant 1996: 160) which explicitly includes the social context within which practices take place (Engler 2004: 223)
Summary
The analyses use a panel study consisting of two cohorts of business school graduates (1990 and 2000) of a large Central European university, allowing a longitudinal analysis of income as a measure of objective career success and its changes in the course of the first twelve and seven years, respectively. It draws on ideas of Pierre Bourdieu and allows to prescind from “men” and “women” as points of departure to “relations” as “realisations of historical acting” (Bourdieu/Wacquant 1996: 160) which explicitly includes the social context within which practices take place (Engler 2004: 223). Even if female employees had – or did – "all the right stuff" (Stroh et al 1992), i.e. proving their career mobility adequately, and being as well educated as their male colleagues, women lag behind in terms of objective career success
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