Everyday challenges to women's presence and authority yield greater burnout and less persistence in a male-dominated profession.

ABSTRACT: While most people believe that women (vs. men) experience more discriminatory treatment at work, especially in male-dominated professions, relatively few women report experiencing such treatment themselves. These low levels of reporting may arise either because discriminatory treatment has declined, even while laypeople's assumptions of widespread discrimination persist, or because it is difficult for individuals to know when they are experiencing discriminatory treatment, leading to underreporting. In investigating this puzzle, we theorized four types of nonsexual workplace experiences that may target women and accumulate to harm well-being, yet may be difficult to recognize as discrimination. To test our predictions, we conducted a longitudinal, multisite experience-sampling study of sur

SUBMITTER: Williams MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12107091 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature