Developing, Refining, and Validating a Survey to Measure Stereotypes and Biases that Women Face in Industry

<p>Almost any woman who has worked in a male dominated industry has faced a gender stereotype or bias of some type. Some of these women have even developed coping mechanisms to counteract these biases and make day-to-day interactions at work tolerable. Gathering information to reveal these stereotypes and biases can pose a distinctive challenge. Many women do not want to reveal the challenges that they have faced in their careers, and the vastness of types of challenges makes asking the correct questions very difficult. Through testing, this study has developed a valid data collection instrument that can be used to gather the varying data. The final instrument yielded 22 items that have strong validity and reliability results.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Department of Architectural and Manufacturing Sciences

Year

2013

Author dc:creator

• Webb, Erin D.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Bryan Reaka (Director), Greg Arbuckle, Ahmed Khalafallah

• Gender Roles
• Women in Industry
• Workplace
• Sex Role
• Sex Discrimination
• Women’s Rights
• Gender and Sexuality
• Industrial Organization
• Inequality and Stratification
• Work, Economy and Organizations

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1321

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.wku.edu:theses-2324