Cultural Schemas, Social Class, and the Flexibility Stigma

By Joan C. Williams, M. Blair‐Loy, Jennifer L. Berdahl. 2013

641 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Gender Studies, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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In Gender Studies

1. Christin L. Munsch
2. Erin A. Cech
3. Sylvia Fuller
4. C. Hirsh
5. Erin Reid
6. Cecilia L. Ridgeway
7. M. Blair‐Loy
8. Joan C. Williams

In General Health Professions

1. Sylvia Fuller
2. C. Hirsh
3. Erin Reid
4. Christin L. Munsch
5. M. Blair‐Loy
6. Erin A. Cech
7. Heejung Chung

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Christin L. Munsch
2. Sylvia Fuller
3. C. Hirsh
4. M. Blair‐Loy
5. Erin Reid
6. Cecilia L. Ridgeway
7. Erin A. Cech
8. Joan C. Williams

Citations in the corpus

• “Family-Friendly” Jobs and Motherhood Pay Penalties: The Impact of Flexible Work Arrangements Across the Educational Spectrum (2019, background): “In sum, our work takes up the call by Williams et al. (2013) to unravel the contours of the flexibility stigma or boost across social positioning, class, and workplace context.”
• Pluralistic Ignorance and the Flexibility Bias: Understanding and Mitigating Flextime and Flexplace Bias at Work (2014, background): “Despite these well-documented benefits, employees who seek flexible work endure a flexibility stigma or bias (Blair-Loy & Wharton, 2004; Cohen & Single, 2001; Glass, 2004; Rogier & Padgett, 2004; Wharton et al., 2008; Williams, 2010; Williams et al., 2013).”
• Consequences of Flexibility Stigma Among Academic Scientists and Engineers (2014, background): “First, as noted earlier, theoretical scholarship has argued that workers who utilize work–life accommodations are stigmatized because this usage is seen as violating moral expectations of work devotion and commitment (Williams et al., 2013).”
• Embracing, Passing, Revealing, and the Ideal Worker Image: How People Navigate Expected and Experienced Professional Identities (2015, background): “Many organizations expect professionals to assume an identity that centers on the ideal worker image, such that they are fully committed to and totally available for their work, with no external commitments that limit this devotion (Acker 1990, Bailyn 2006, Williams et al. 2013).”