Crushing the glass ceiling [Elektronische Ressource] : relative group prototypicality and female strategies in disriminating organizational settings / von Ilga Vossen

Crushing the glass ceiling: Relative group Prototypicality and Female Strategies in Discriminating Organizational Settings Dissertation zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades doctor philosophiae (Dr. phil.) vorgelegt dem Rat der Fakultät für Sozial- und Verhaltenswissenschaften der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena von Dipl.-Psych. Ilga Vossen geboren am 30.06.1974 in Aachen Gutachter 1. ________________________________ 2. Tag des Kolloquiums: _____________________ When you get to the top, stay there and make sure other women join you. Maureen Reagan Acknowledgements When I worked outside the university context, I was rather surprised by the fact how strongly preconceptions about ‘how men and women at work are and ought to be’ influence daily interactions between male and female colleagues. Even though disadvantages and discrimination were perceived to be driven by gender stereotypes, women would not necessarily feel solidary with female colleagues and sometimes would even speak against gender support initiatives (e.g., networking, mentoring). This non-scientific observation entailed the question how and when women would want to collectively challenge discrimination, which became the leading research question of my dissertation.