abstract: 'Why should students and scholars who are interested in gender difference

  and inequality study organizations? In recent years, as research on

  organizations has migrated to business schools and become less connected

  to other subfields of the discipline, the value of organizational

  sociology has become less evident to many. Yet characteristics of

  organizations contribute in important ways to producing different

  experiences and outcomes for women and men, by constraining certain

  individual actions and enabling or bringing about others. In this essay,

  we trace the consequences of four categories of organizational

  characteristics-the formal structure of work, employment practices,

  informal structure and culture, and organizational networks and

  fields-for gender inequality in three areas: workplace experiences,

  work-family conflict, and career outcomes. We close with some brief

  reflections on future directions for research linking organizations and

  gender.'
affiliation: 'Gorman, EH (Corresponding Author), Univ Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
  22904 USA.

  Gorman, Elizabeth H., Univ Virginia, Sociol, Charlottesville, VA USA.

  Mosseri, Sarah, Univ Virginia, Dept Sociol, Charlottesville, VA USA.'
article-number: e12660
author: Gorman, Elizabeth H. and Mosseri, Sarah
author-email: eg5n@virginia.edu
author_list:
- family: Gorman
  given: Elizabeth H.
- family: Mosseri
  given: Sarah
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1111/soc4.12660
files: []
issn: 1751-9020
journal: SOCIOLOGY COMPASS
keywords-plus: 'WOMENS EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES; WELFARE-STATE PARADOX; FAMILY POLICY

  USE; SEXUAL-HARASSMENT; GLASS ESCALATOR; FLEXIBLE WORK; FLEXIBILITY

  POLICIES; EMOTIONAL LABOR; SOCIAL-CLASS; RACE'
language: English
month: MAR
number: '3'
number-of-cited-references: '166'
orcid-numbers: Mosseri, Sarah/0000-0002-9548-6984
papis_id: b827c88ea45abcbdfcd74ab2140c189c
ref: Gorman2019howorganizational
researcherid-numbers: Mosseri, Sarah/X-5638-2019
times-cited: '14'
title: How organizational characteristics shape gender difference and inequality at
  work
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000460184600007
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '48'
volume: '13'
web-of-science-categories: Sociology
year: '2019'