Maternal wall, the Glossary
The maternal wall is a term referring to stereotypes and various forms of discrimination encountered by working mothers and mothers seeking employment.[1]
Table of Contents
17 relations: Bankruptcy, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Discrimination, Employment discrimination, Expectation states theory, Flextime, Gary Becker, Job performance, Mommy track, Motherhood penalty, Phillips v. Martin Marietta Corp., Remote work, Role congruity theory, Stereotype, Stereotype content model, Supreme Court of the United States, Work–family conflict.
- Women and employment
Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy is a legal process through which people or other entities who cannot repay debts to creditors may seek relief from some or all of their debts.
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin.
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Discrimination
Discrimination is the process of making unfair or prejudicial distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong, such as race, gender, age, religion, physical attractiveness or sexual orientation.
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Employment discrimination
Employment discrimination is a form of illegal discrimination in the workplace based on legally protected characteristics.
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Expectation states theory
Expectation states theory is a social psychological theory first proposed by Joseph Berger and his colleagues that explains how expected competence forms the basis for status hierarchies in small groups.
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Flextime
Flextime (also spelled flexitime (BE) or flex-time) is a flexible hours schedule that allows workers to alter their workday and adjust their start and finish times.
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Gary Becker
Gary Stanley Becker (December 2, 1930 – May 3, 2014) was an American economist who received the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
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Job performance
Job performance assesses whether a person performs a job well.
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Mommy track
A mommy track is a path in a woman's life that puts priority to being a mother. Maternal wall and mommy track are motherhood.
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Motherhood penalty
The motherhood penalty is a term coined by sociologists, that in the workplace, working mothers encounter disadvantages in pay, perceived competence, and benefits relative to childless women. Maternal wall and motherhood penalty are Employment discrimination and motherhood.
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Phillips v. Martin Marietta Corp.
Phillips v. Martin Marietta Corp., 400 U.S. 542 (1971), was a United States Supreme Court landmark case in which the Court held that under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, an employer may not, in the absence of business necessity, refuse to hire women with pre-school-age children while hiring men with such children.
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Remote work
Remote work (also called telecommuting, telework, work from home—or WFH as an initialism, hybrid work, and other terms) is the practice of working from one's home or another space rather than from an office.
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Role congruity theory
Role congruity theory proposes that a group will be positively evaluated when its characteristics are recognized as aligning with that group's typical social roles (Eagly & Diekman, 2005). Maternal wall and role congruity theory are Sexism.
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Stereotype
In social psychology, a stereotype is a generalized belief about a particular category of people.
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Stereotype content model
In social psychology, the stereotype content model (SCM) is a model, first proposed in 2002, postulating that all group stereotypes and interpersonal impressions form along two dimensions: (1) warmth and (2) competence.
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Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.
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Work–family conflict
Work–family conflict occurs when an individual experiences incompatible demands between work and family roles, causing participation in both roles to become more difficult.
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See also
Women and employment
- 1919 International Congress of Working Women
- 9to5
- Businesswomen
- Central Committee on Women's Employment
- Conventions Concerning Employment of Women During the Night
- Female entrepreneurs
- Irish Central Committee for the Employment of Women
- Maternal wall
- National Federation of Women Workers
- Ordination of women
- Ottawa Women's Training and Employment Network
- Rural women
- Self Employed Women's Association
- Silkwoman
- Society for Promoting the Employment of Women
- Two-body problem (career)
- Women Who Work (book)
- Women in Tech
- Women in computing
- Women in law
- Women in positions of power
- Women in the military
- Women in the workforce
- Working Women United
- Working Women's Forum