Mothering or Auditing
The metaphor used to describe women taking on nurturing, supportive roles in firms.
What is mothering?
This concept, typically seen as supportive, is critically reinterpreted by the authors as potentially harmful.
What is work-life balance?
This global process is critiqued as a modern form of empire.
What is globalization?
This term describes the barrier preventing women from reaching senior management positions.
What is the glass ceiling?
This structural issue refers to unequal career outcomes despite equal formal opportunities.
What is gender inequality?
This term describes a psychological manipulation where individuals are led to question their own perceptions.
What is gaslighting?
This organization identified women’s advancement as a key issue in 1984.
What is the AICPA?
This variable represents hierarchical rank from partner to accounting senior.
What is management level?
This type of labor performed by women is essential but often invisible and unrewarded.
What is emotional labor?
This term refers to the ideal employee who prioritizes work and has minimal outside obligations.
What is the ideal worker?
This term describes the process of exporting U.S. economic and gender norms globally.
What is neo-colonialism?
This level had zero representation of mothers in the sample.
What is a partner?
This phenomenon describes how individuals internalize and reproduce gendered expectations within organizations.
What is the internalization of gender norms?
This mechanism leads women to blame themselves for failing to achieve balance rather than questioning the system.
What is internalized responsibility (or self-blame)?
This ideology justifies focusing solely on shareholder value while ignoring social consequences.
What is legalism?
This term describes the male-dominated social and professional networks influencing promotion.
What is boys-club?