GEN 210: Annotated Bibliography on Gender Roles in the Workplace

This annotated bibliography explores the multifaceted impact of gender roles on the workplace, drawing on seven scholarly sources. The introduction establishes the significance of gender dynamics in contemporary business environments, highlighting how traditional gender stereotypes affect ...Read More

Rashmi Poddar
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Social/Gender
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How do ideas about gender roles affect gender in the workplace?
Annotated Bibliography
Introduction
There is a deep-rooted idea among few gender identities that they are mover and
shakers in contemporary business world. This may be correct fifty years ago, but nowadays
people see things in new and interesting manner that brings development trend. The idea
behind gender roles affecting gender in workplaces gradually affects gender participation,
including women roles thereby affecting overall workplace productivity. This annotated
bibliography has been prepared after gathering crucial information concerning above essay
question. The peer-reviewed articles used for the below annotated bibliography will help in
developing research essay as information cited in each source is highly relevant for the
proposed essay topic.
Article 1.
Arnania-Kepuladze, T. (2010). “Gender stereotypes and gender feature of job motivation:
differences or similarity?”. "Problems and Perspectives in Management, 08(02), 84-
93. Retrieved from
https://businessperspectives.org/images/pdf/applications/publishing/templates/
article/assets/3227/PPM_EN_2010_02_Kepuladze.pdf
The above article recognizes that aimful management within human resources deals
factors pertaining employee’s work motivation. Organizational performance is recognized by
the author as a way to increase economic efficiency and according to the changes seen in

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labour market, the whole world seems to prefer involvement of women due to their wide
engagement in workforce. Based upon contemporary survey made on literature review
concerning gender motivation factors and general theory of motivation, the author pinpoints
that the idea behind gender motivation has gain much significance today. This article will be
very helpful for outlining the proposed essay topic as it includes detailed investigation of
masculine characters like advancement opportunities, responsibility, high earning scope and
feminine characteristics like co-operation and personal life time.
Article 2.
Farrior, S. (2009). Human Rights Advocacy on Gender Issues: Challenges and Opportunities.
Journal of Human Rights Practice, 01(01), 83-100. Retrieved from
https://academic.oup.com/jhrp/article/1/1/83/2188706
This article notified about recent progress seen on the issues of human rights and
gender-based inequalities in standard setting and application of those standards in domestic
and international legislation along with institutional development and programming. Few
regional and international human rights bodies go beyond including women within the
criteria of ‘vulnerable’ groups and have incorporated women’s perspectives and experiences
for recommendations to make structural changes. Nevertheless, the authors also address
challenges seen in this progressive idea like violence against women that results in gender-
based discrimination persisting in education, health care, disaster relief and housing
workplaces. The article highlights upon various opportunities along with challenges to
advocate international human rights for minimizing the affects resulting due to gender-based
discrimination. The detailed study made on different gender-based perspectives will enrich
the essay with critical information along with applying legal and structured solutions.

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Article 3.
Khan, Y. A., Davis, A. L., & Taylor , J. A. (2017). Ladders and lifting: How gender affects
safety behaviors in the fire service. Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health, 32(03),
206-225. Retrieved from
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15555240.2017.1358642
The above research article explores the level in which gender affects outcomes and
behaviour in organizations with the help of fire service case study. The authors carry semi-
structured interviews and focuses on gender-based groups along with conducting research
according to findings from current literature on gender role in fire services. The article
recorded focus groups and eight interviews, transcribed them and coded using NVivo
software. The methodology undertaken by authors explored that female genders considerably
improved safety behaviour by focusing upon techniques and biomechanics, weighting risks
along with benefiting in dangerous situations, being motivated to report causalities and
illuminating more hostile environment. The analytical research shows that women have less
rigid attitude than males and felt that deviating attitude from modernists approach may have
positive attitude in workplace practices. This article will therefore assist further in the essay
while reflecting value and culture-based perspective for improving overall workplace safety
to strengthened efforts and relationships within workplace environment.
Article 4.
Ozturk, M. B., & Tatli, A. (2015). Gender identity inclusion in the workplace: broadening
diversity management research and practice through the case of transgender
employees in the UK. The International Journal of Human Resource Management,

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27(08), 781-802. Retrieved from
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09585192.2015.1042902
This article explores unique workplace experience based on in-depth interview carried
regarding transgender individuals in the UK workplace environment. The paper makes an
extensive research and identifies that the idea behind diversity act as a key blind spot within
diversity management research and HRM. The findings from the literature review made in
the article reveals workplace challenges faced by employees who belonged to diversified
genders, including transgender employees. The finding made identifies the necessity behind
logical approach not only for making thorough research on the idea behind idea diverse
genders, but also on devising diversity strategy in organisations. The recommendations made
for effective HRM policy and practice for developing more sophisticated approach to
eliminate gender inequality is highly relevant to the essay topic and therefore will be utilised
extensively.
Article 5.
Stamarski, C. S., & Hing, L. S. (2015). Gender inequalities in the workplace: the effects of
organizational structures, processes, practices, and decision makers’ sexism.
Frontiers in Psychology, 06(1400), 1-20. Retrieved from
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4584998/pdf/fpsyg-06-01400.pdf
This article reveals that workplace has turned more into an inhospitable place
especially for women because of gender inequality. This workplace discrimination impacts
women negatively by affecting their opportunities and earnings like wage gaps, dearth in
women leadership and longer time-period requirements for gaining top position. The authors
propose a model of gender discrimination within HR, emphasizing the reciprocal feature of

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workplace gender discrimination. The authors suggest that discrimination made in
organization’s decision making and operations carried stems from gender inequalities in
wider organizational concept, practice and processes. This essay will be used while focusing
upon reasons behind institutional discrimination idea in organizations as the article provides a
socializing context for decision making process in workplace.
Article 6.
Verniers , C., & Vala , J. (2018). Justifying gender discrimination in the workplace: The
mediating role of motherhood myths. PLOS ONE, 13(07). Retrieved from
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0190657
This article emphasizes upon issues related to gender equality in workplace
productivity that gives rise to various policies in developed countries, aiming at tackling
affects related to gender roles concerning more upon salary, promotion and recruitment. The
idea behind gender inequalities are persistent within workplace and therefore, the authors
proposes a research-based study to document psychological processes involved in gender
discrimination against women employees. To justify discrimination idea, the authors draws
upon current literature and hypothesis that myths under which women’s work risks family
and children life. The data collected since last few years for modelling confirms hypothesized
mediation and thus the findings of this article will be used further in the essay to justify how
gender structure in countries promotes gender equality.

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Article 7.
Wu, R., & Cheng, X. (2016). Gender equality in the workplac:e: The effect of gender
equality on productivity growth among the Chilean manufacturers. The Journal of
Developing Areas, 50(01), 257-274. Retrieved from
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/294576596_Gender_equality_in_the_workp
lace_The_effect_of_gender_equality_on_productivity_growth_among_the_Chilean_
manufacturers
This article emphasis on economic study related to gender equality and finds that
people believes that female equality under same business can create effective and harmonious
surroundings, provided every worker are encouraged to promote and contribute firm’s
growth. To examine, the paper makes empirical study to find correlation between the idea
behind gender equality, employment and productivity. The article undertakes Chilean
manufacturing case analysis from 2001 to 2007, concentrated majorly on four kind of
employees present in workplaces. The statistical analysis and literature review made reveals
that in Chile, the idea behind gender inequality exists nowadays even and thus showed less
productivity ratio as compared to the ones who followed more gender-equalised workforce.
This article will be utilised further for enabling its findings in the essay regarding
contemporary firm’s growth pattern along with reflecting upon negative effects of gender
roles affecting gender in workplaces.