Patriarchy and female career progression : do women maintain the status quo?

Abstract

This journal focusses on gendered interactions in both society and in organisations, and publishes empirical articles using both qualitative and quantitative methodologies. This journal houses topics such as gender and work, feminist identities and masculinities. The article encompasses all three of these topics and builds on a published article in the journal ““Women in Power: Undoing or Redoing the Gendered Organization? (Stainback, Kleiner, & Skaggs, 2016). The research conducted builds on the published article by analysing, through lived experiences, how women have experienced the enforcement of patriarchal principles by another woman and the effect this has on their career progression. Additionally, the research highlights how the participants themselves have internalised and socialised gender roles and inferiority due to patriarchal upbringings, and how they are perpetuating it in their own lives. The research aims to contribute to the building body of research on whether women are in part responsible for the persisting gender inequality in the workplace and largely in society.