Podcast appearances and mentions of Robin J Ely

Scholars David A. Thomas and Robin J. Ely talk with Wharton's Katherine Klein about why the business case for diversity takes pressure off leaders to create a real culture of inclusion. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Women who might have been considered for leadership roles often find that their dedication and capability are called into question as they approach motherhood. Simply being at a point in life where society assumes that women might want to have children can stall their career progression. Motherhood is a clear sign women are betraying the ideal worker standard. When women go on maternity leave, return to work, or take up flexible workplace practices, they face a range of beliefs and behaviors that serve to devalue them and their contribution. With COVID-19, these challenges have never been more difficult to overcome, as women are more likely to care for children and support them with homeschooling, while at the same time working from home. Women do all of this and then are more likely to be penalized for it, by their employers as they are perceived to be less committed, ambitious and serious about their work. To support women at work, we need company cultures that provide more than accommodations. We need leaders who adopt and value family-friendly practices. On this episode, Robin J. Ely, a Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, will join us to discuss what is really holding women back at work.

Today’s topic and episode is blowing my mind. There are pieces of it that tie into every past season of the Career Foresight podcast as well as providing insight for the future of work.Saying, “I’m excited,” is an understatement. I’m going back to my podcasting roots on this episode by focusing the discussion on findings from a research article. In this case, it’s an article from the March-April 2020 edition of the Harvard Business Review. The article is titled, “What’s Really Holding Women Back? It’s Not What Most People Think.” It was researched and authored by Robin J. Ely, who is the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the faculty chair of the HBS Gender Initiative, and Irene Padavic, who is the Mildred and Claude Pepper Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Florida State University. In this episode I’ll share:What most people (women, men, business leaders and subordinates alike) believe is keeping women from advancing to positions of powerHow the research and data on this topic disproves that assumption, and what is really derailing women's career trajectories  Why we need to broaden our views on the issue of workplace equality and check our biasesYou can find the full show notes here: https://www.jenniferspoelma.com/podcast-feed/gender-inequality-narrative

Mothers in the workplace often struggle with the balance between being a team player and raising a family. But research says that’s not what’s holding them back from reaching the C-suite. Robin J. Ely, Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, joins host Krys Boyd to talk about the real reasons businesses have a tendency to stall female advancement. Her article “What’s Really Holding Women Back?” was published in the Harvard Business Review.