Why we should stop trying to fix women: how context shapes and constrains women's career trajectories
MK Ryan, T Morgenroth�- Annual review of psychology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
In this review we examine two classes of interventions designed to achieve workplace
gender equality:(a) those designed to boost motivations and ambition, such as those that
aim to attract more women into roles where they are underrepresented; and (b) those that try
to provide women with needed abilities to achieve these positions. While such initiatives are
generally well meaning, they tend to be based upon (and reinforce) stereotypes of what
women lack. Such a deficit model leads to interventions that attempt to “fix” women rather�…
gender equality:(a) those designed to boost motivations and ambition, such as those that
aim to attract more women into roles where they are underrepresented; and (b) those that try
to provide women with needed abilities to achieve these positions. While such initiatives are
generally well meaning, they tend to be based upon (and reinforce) stereotypes of what
women lack. Such a deficit model leads to interventions that attempt to “fix” women rather�…