The Maternal Wall
By F. Crosby, Joan C. Williams, M. Biernat. 2004
157 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/450fdf89581625f1ac3aa4184e2de72d99e84f0e
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In Gender Studies
- Jeffrey H. Greenhaus
- Gary N. Powell
- Peter Caputi
- Paul Smith
- Nadia Crittenden
- Mindy J. Erchull
- Holly Schiffrin
- E. King
In Sociology and Political Science
- Jeffrey H. Greenhaus
- Gary N. Powell
- Peter Caputi
- Paul Smith
- Nadia Crittenden
- Mindy J. Erchull
- Holly Schiffrin
- E. King
Citations in the corpus
- A maze of metaphors around glass ceilings (2012, background): “Another frequently used metaphor, the “maternal wall”, gives a clear image of how women’s careers are negatively affected by the breaks in employment necessary for motherhood (Crosby et al., 2004; Williams, 2004).”
- The effect of bias on the advancement of working mothers: Disentangling legitimate concerns from inaccurate stereotypes as predictors of advancement in academe (2008, result): “These results suggest that mothers in academe may encounter a ‘maternal wall’ (e.g. Crosby et al., 2004) similar to that experienced by mothers in other fields.”
- Are motherhood penalties and fatherhood bonuses warranted? Comparing pro-work behaviors and conditions of mothers, fathers, and non-parents (2011, background): “Indeed, a growing body of evidence suggests that employers reward men for being fathers and penalize women for being mothers (Williams, 2001; Crittenden, 2001; Crosby et al., 2004; Correll et al., 2007; Budig and Hodges, 2010).”
- Development and Validation of a Quantitative Measure of Intensive Parenting Attitudes (2012, background): “…who have suggested that one way to encourage greater egalitarianism in the home is to challenge the perception that women are inherently better at parenting than men, a central component of intensive mothering ideologies (Bjarnason and Hjalmsdottir 2008; Crosby et al. 2004; Deutsch et al. 2007).”
- Sex, Gender, and Decisions at the Family → Work Interface (2010, background): “That is, what decisionmaking mechanisms are used to take family-domain (work-domain) factors into account in making decisions in the work (family) domain? Finally, sex and gender differences in decisions and actions need to be studied in the larger context of cultural norms, assumptions, and constra”