Perceived Gender Discrimination and Women's Subjective Career Success: The Moderating Role of Career Anchors

Olivier Herrbach () and Karim Mignonac ()
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Olivier Herrbach: CRECCI-IRGO - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) - Bordeaux
Karim Mignonac: CRM - Centre de Recherche en Management - UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole - UT - Université de Toulouse - IAE - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Toulouse - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Subjective career success has beneficial consequences on several individual and organizational outcomes. It is closely related to what people value as important at work, but may be more difficult to achieve when they experience workplace discrimination. Using a sample of 300 women employees working in a large French company, we thus investigated the relationship between perceived gender discrimination, subjective career success and career anchors. We found that perceived gender discrimination was negatively related to subjective career success overall. However, the relationship between the two variables was moderated by career anchors. Someanchors (i.e. managerial, technical and lifestyle) enhanced the impact of perceived gender discrimination, while other anchors (i.e. security and autonomy) lessened it. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these findings

Keywords: perceived gender discrimination; subjective career success; career anchors; perceived gender discrimination"; "subjective career success"; " career anchors" (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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Published in Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012, 67 (1), pp.25-50. ⟨10.7202/1008194ar⟩

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DOI: 10.7202/1008194ar

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