Shaping Work from the Two Sides of the Labor Market: Supply & Demand-Side Views of Gender Inequality

In this symposium, we follow calls for research that acknowledges the interplay between supply-side and demand-side contributors to gender inequality (Fernandez Mateo & Kaplan, 2018) and bring together papers that are 'at risk' of building greater understanding of how supply-side (worker) factors that have been dominant in past explanations of gender inequality are also influenced by demand-side (employer) factors in important ways. The papers in our symposium draw upon several contexts in which gender differences were mainly thought to be due to supply side gender factors, but that in fact also reflect demand side factors. These contexts include applications at lower and higher levels of organizations (Nimczik et al. on job entry and job ladders; Chan Ahuja and Fernandez Mateo on applications to boards); within jobs (Gounden Rock on task allocations) and in the blending of tasks between work and home (Feldberg, Harrington & McGinn).¶ Decomposing Gender Disparity in Application Rates: Starting, Dropping, and Submitting Author: Stephanie Chan-Ahuja; London Business School Author: Isabel Fernandez-Mateo; London Business School Gendered hierarchical structures and the glass ceiling effect in women’s organizational careers Author: Jan Nimczik; ESMT Berlin Author: Gianluca Carnabuci; ESMT Berlin Author: Min Liu; Durham U. Task Content as a Within-job Contributor to Gender Wage Inequality: the Case of US Unions Author: Alyson Gounden Rock; McGill U. Desautels Faculty of Mgt/ MIT How Parents’ Approaches to Household Tasks Contribute to Gender Differences in Work Tasks & Outcomes Author: Alexandra Feldberg; Harvard Business School Author: Kelly Harrington; - Author: Kathleen L. McGinn; Harvard U.