Penalizing Men Who Request a Family Leave: Is Flexibility Stigma a Femininity Stigma?

By Laurie A. Rudman, K. Mescher. 2013

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Cultural Schemas, Social Class, and the Flexibility Stigma (2013, background): “This finding is confirmed by the studies in this issue (Berdahl & Moon, 2013; Rudman & Mescher, 2013; Vandello et al., 2013).”
Barriers to equality: why British fathers do not use parental leave (2018, background): “Indeed, American men who request parental leave may experience poor work stigma and femininity stigma (Rudman & Mescher, 2013).”
Why Does Workplace Gender Diversity Matter? Justice, Organizational Benefits, and Policy (2019, background): “Potentially, this might be related to the gender policing and stigma men face for behaving counterstereotypically (Moss-Racusin et al., 2010; Rudman & Mescher, 2013), and/or to the lower salaries observed in female-dominated sectors.”
Gender, Flexibility Stigma and the Perceived Negative Consequences of Flexible Working in the UK (2018, methodology): “In the rest of this paper, when discussing flexibility stigma, based on previous work of others (e.g. Rudman and Mescher 2013), I distinguish between two types.”
When Equal Isn't Really Equal: The Masculine Dilemma of Seeking Work Flexibility (2013, background): “Rudman and Mescher (2013) investigated reactions to male targets who requested a family leave (e.g., to care for a sick child) and found that such men are penalized with both poor worker ratings and a femininity stigma.”
The Stigma Complex (2015, background): “…(Byrne & Carr 2005), voluntary childlessness (Park 2002), infertility (Donkor & Sandall 2007), abortion (Kumar et al. 2009), family leave (Rudman & Mescher 2013), sexual orientation (Herek 2004); the uptake of social benefits, e.g., Medicaid (Palmer et al. 2004), public housing (Stuber &…”
Pluralistic Ignorance and the Flexibility Bias: Understanding and Mitigating Flextime and Flexplace Bias at Work (2014, result): “In line with previous research (Rudman & Mescher, 2013), participants learned that a fictitious company (Hatin Corporation) has shared their human resources (HR) transcripts for research purposes.”
Consequences of Flexibility Stigma Among Academic Scientists and Engineers (2014, background): “Some scholars (Rudman & Mescher, 2013; Vandello, Hettinger, Bosson, & Siddiqi, 2013) attribute the negative reaction to men’s request for work–life accommodations to the stigmatization of men with care responsibilities as more feminine.”
Flexible Work, Flexible Penalties: The Effect of Gender, Childcare, and Type of Request on the Flexibility Bias (2016, methodology): “At first glance, this appears to contradict previous flexibility stigma literature (Berdahl and Moon 2013; Coltrane et al. 2013; Rudman and Mescher 2013; Vandello et al. 2013).”