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27 - Gender and Workplace Affect

Expression, Experiences, and Display Rules

from Part IV - Workplace Affect and Organizational, Social, and Cultural Processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 June 2020

By
Larry R. Martinez ,
Liana Bernard  and
Megan Snoeyink
Edited by
Liu-Qin Yang ,
Russell Cropanzano ,
Catherine S. Daus  and
Vicente Martínez-Tur
Liu-Qin Yang
Affiliation:
Portland State University
Russell Cropanzano
Affiliation:
University of Colorado
Catherine S. Daus
Affiliation:
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Vicente Martínez-Tur
Affiliation:
Universitat de València, Spain
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Summary

Gender continues to be a dominant organizing framework in contemporary society. Like most aspects of everyday life, people’s experiences with emotions are highly influenced by gender norms, and this is strikingly the case in workplace contexts. In this chapter, we review the existing literature related to how people experience and express (or suppress) emotions at work as a function of gender. In line with most contemporary literature we reviewed, we use the terms “affect” and “emotions” relatively interchangeably. Indeed, the majority of the research we identified was focused on state-level affect and not on trait-level or stable affect (often referred to as “mood”).

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The Cambridge Handbook of Workplace Affect , pp. 363 - 374
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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