Topic > Importance of Gender Tokenism in the Workplace
Additionally, Roth also found that women in her study found it disproportionately difficult to network with their colleagues and experienced high levels of harassment, further impeding them from advancing in the workplace their career (2000). In this scenario and many others, the employee's gender is given more attention than actual performance ability (Jackson et al., 1995). Token successful women in high-profile jobs, such as Hillary Clinton and Sandra Day O'Connor, are used to hide this discrimination, encouraging women to look beyond numerical underrepresentation as a sign of discrimination (Ryan et al., 2012) and to instead see women who aren't as successful
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