Working in a context of hostility toward women: implications for employees' well-being.
This study examined how working in an organizational context perceived as hostile toward women affects employees' well-being, even in the absence of personal hostility experiences. Participants were 289 public-sector employees who denied any personal history of being targeted with general or gender-based hostility at work. They completed measures of personal demographics, occupational and physical well-being, and perceptions of the organizational context for women. Results showed that 2 contextual indices of hostility toward women related to declines in well-being for male and female employees. The gender ratio of the workgroup moderated this relationship, with employees in male-skewed units reporting the most negative effects. These findings suggest that all employees in the workplace can suffer from working in a context of perceived misogyny.
Miner-Rubino
Kathi
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Department of Psychology, Women's Studies Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1109, USA. kminer@umich.edu
Cortina
Lilia M
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006791:Hostility; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health; D008875:Middle Aged; D016272:Occupational Health; D015279:Organizational Culture; D017150:Public Sector; D012044:Regression Analysis; D017406:Sexual Harassment / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D016387:Women's Health; D014931:Women, Working / Q000523:psychology*; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology*