Virtual Special Issue - Inequality in professional work

The persistence of income inequality despite inclusion efforts is a paradox that remains central to academic and policy inquiry alike.

Using the case of elite Indian professionals, this article offers a contrast to the robust literature suggesting collinearity between gender essentialism and inequality in organizational settings.

This paper draws on oral history interviews with members of a feminized profession, dietetics, and feminist actor-network theory (ANT) to advance an emerging theoretical framework, the sociology of expertise.

This article begins a systematic conceptualization and measurement of partner careers in professional service firms. 

In 2016, inspired by the NFL’s Rooney Rule, the Mansfield Rule was devised to push soft affirmative action policies, including the so-called 30% rule, to incentivize law firms to affirmatively consider women and underrepresented groups for leadership and governance roles, equity partner promotions, and lateral positions.

This article examines the impact of external jolts on professional women’s careers. Although scholars have begun to address the role of context in career, little research has addressed the effects of unexpected and uncontrollable events. 

In order to understand inequality in society, it is necessary to understand the matching of people and positions in organizations through hiring, promotion, and other processes leading to the attainment of rank and authority.

In the Big 4 accountancy/consultancy firms, many female consultants leave their organization at the (senior) management level.

To critical observers, the growth and professionalization of the US craft beer industry over the last few decades has meant the expansion of yet another kind of workplace replete with standards of whiteness and masculinity.

This article examines the production of corporate legal elite through a systematic analysis of the profiles of the first three cohorts of partners in nine elite corporate law firms in Beijing.