Work Uncertainty and the Promotion of Professional Women: The Case of Law Firm Partnership

By Elizabeth H. Gorman. 2006

151 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Gender Studies

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1. Tristan L. Botelho
2. Mabel Abraham
3. Sarah Thébaud

Citations in the corpus

• Pursuing Quality: How Search Costs and Uncertainty Magnify Gender-based Double Standards in a Multistage Evaluation Process (2017, background): “…into the evaluation process when search costs and uncertainty are heightened, because under such conditions it becomes more difficult to discern quality (Podolny, 1993; Stuart, Hoang, and Hybels, 1999; Gorman, 2006; Simcoe and Waguespack, 2011; Azoulay, Stuart, and Wang, 2014; Kim and King, 2014).”
• Status Beliefs and the Spirit of Capitalism: Accounting for Gender Biases in Entrepreneurship and Innovation (2015, background): “Research has shown that people are especially likely to rely on stereotypes in situations characterized by uncertainty and a lack of information (Gorman 2006; Ridgeway 2011).”