Multiple Identities and Non-Prototypicality: Intersectionality at Work

Abstract

Everyone has multiple social identities that influence the way they are perceived and treated and, in turn, how they perceive and respond to their social worlds at work. To date, research has tended to focus only on one identity at a time. The papers in this symposium investigate how different combinations of multiple identities affect a variety of outcomes at work, from biases and beliefs to recruitment, fundraising, and perceptions of speech and discrimination. This symposium has three goals: (1) to shed light on emerging theory on intersecting social identities, (2) to present innovative scholarship about how multiple intersecting social identities affect how individuals negotiate their workplaces and what treatment they receive, and (3) to create space for complicating the conversation about diversity and inclusion in order to examine the complexities of intersectionality and non-prototypicality. Black Women’s Experiences of Mistreatment and Withdrawal Presenter: Kathrina Robotham; U. of Michigan Presenter: Veronica C. Rabelo; San Francisco State U. Presenter: Courtney Lynn McCluney; U. of Virginia Darden School of Business Presenter: Kelsie Thorne; U. of Michigan Invisible Discrimination: Divergent Implications for the Non-Prototypicality of Black Women Presenter: Rebecca Ponce de Leon; Fuqua School of Business, Duke U. “Geeky” Rules of the Game: The Effects of Nerd Masculinity on Entrepreneurial Funding Presenter: Soojin Oh; Pennsylvania State U. Presenter: Aparna Joshi; Penn State Smeal College of Business Do White Women Get Away with Racist Speech? The Effects of Identity on Perceptions of Speech Presenter: Barnini Bhattacharyya; Sauder School of Business, U. of British Columbia Presenter: Jennifer L. Berdahl; U. of British Columbia Re-Aligning Multiple Identities by Tweaking Job Advertisement Language Presenter: Joyce He; U. of Toronto Presenter: Sonia Kang; U. of Toronto