PSY302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Homosociality, Where We Are, Homophily
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Culture also effects, but when think of culture we see 1)belief, 2) cultural tightness has a lot in common with conformity. Tight cultures: less likely to promote women as leaders, unless those norms suppoer opportunity for both genders. Tigher cultures make ppl more resistant to chaging traditionally held practices, such as always promoting men. ex. in neuzeland, there was a higher female leadership compared to tight cultures as pakistand. Norways also emphasized cultural equality, tightness thus helps to promote women. Explains why a calling company has more success of hiring and promoting women than in germany, which has cultural tightness. Trends in women as senior managers and other managers. The two promotion models & how they affect women. Terms to know authority problem glass ceiling promotion ladder seniority merit within-occupation gender segregation homophily organization gender culture gender labelling organizational climate systemic discrimination.