Abstract
From Interests to Outcomes: Exploring Gendered Pathways in Careers
Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, Vol.2025(1)
07/2025
DOI: 10.5465/AMPROC.2025.11769symposium
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Despite decades of research and organizational efforts to address gender inequities, disparities in career outcomes between women and men remain one of society’s grand challenges. Women continue to encounter barriers to advancement, as they still earn less than men, are underrepresented in upper-level management roles, and are overrepresented in lower-status occupations. The persistence of these gaps, even with the increased societal focus on gender equity, suggests the need to further explore why and how women are still systematically disadvantaged in work and careers. This symposium brings together four papers that examine gender differences in early career interests, subsequent career trajectories, and ultimately career outcomes to provide a comprehensive understanding of how gender influences work and careers. Drawing from diverse theoretical perspectives and empirical settings, these papers address pressing questions about the challenges that women face and the mechanisms that perpetuate gender disparities in careers. The final paper, however, examines a potential context when women may actually be advantaged relative to comparable men—despite women’s systemically worse outcomes —providing a nuanced perspective on gender dynamics. Together, the four papers consider foundational early career interests that shape trajectories, labor market behaviors, professional setbacks, and senior management outcomes. By drawing on large, unique datasets across multiple contexts—spanning early career preferences, freelancing platforms, Hollywood film production, and corporate promotions—the studies highlight how individual, organizational, and societal factors interact, leading to gender differences in career outcomes.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- From Interests to Outcomes: Exploring Gendered Pathways in Careers
- Creators
- Shoshana Schwartz - Christopher Newport UniversityTristan L. Botelho - Yale UniversityTiantian Yang - University of PennsylvaniaRong Su - University of IowaIsabelle Solal - École Supérieure des Sciences Économiques et CommercialesSimon (Seongbin) Yoon - University of California, IrvineMing De Leung - University of California, IrvineKaisa E. SnellmanKamil StronskiEric Luis UhlmannGeraldo PadillaNicholas Lowery - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Abstract
- Publication Details
- Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, Vol.2025(1)
- DOI
- 10.5465/AMPROC.2025.11769symposium
- eISSN
- 2151-6561
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/2025
- Academic Unit
- Management and Entrepreneurship
- Record Identifier
- 9985027359702771
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