Pregnancy in the Workplace: Stigmatization and Work Identity Management Among Pregnant Employees

dc.contributor.advisorKlein, Katherine Jen_US
dc.contributor.authorMajor, Virginia Smithen_US
dc.contributor.departmentPsychologyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2004-10-09T05:21:34Z
dc.date.available2004-10-09T05:21:34Z
dc.date.issued2004-09-08en_US
dc.description.abstractAs increasing numbers of women enter the workplace, more and more women and their employers are confronted with the issue of combining work, pregnancy, and childbirth. Unfortunately, very little management or organizational psychology research has examined the experiences of pregnant employees in the workplace. In this paper, I describe a qualitative, grounded theory study of the phenomenon of pregnancy and work, presenting a model of stigmatization and identity management among pregnant workers. I identify several work environment and job characteristics that may influence the likelihood that pregnant women perceive a threat of stigmatization, and I specify the relationship between that perceived stigmatization and efforts women make to manage their work identities.en_US
dc.format.extent1081387 bytes
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/1899
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPsychology, Industrialen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledpregnant employeesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledpregnancy and worken_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledpregnancy and stigmaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledidentity managementen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledgrounded theoryen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledstigma managementen_US
dc.titlePregnancy in the Workplace: Stigmatization and Work Identity Management Among Pregnant Employeesen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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