YG Lee, CZ Koval, SS Lee - Academy of Management Journal, 2022 - journals.aom.org

The Glass Wall and the Gendered Evaluation of Role Expansion in Freelancing Careers.

ADVANCE: Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic Professions AND Program Evaluation

Koval, Lee

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Excerpt

People pursuing careers outside of organizations often find themselves in a career progression paradox: they need to develop expertise to find new work opportunities, but such expertise is largely acquired through accumulating work experience to which they seldom have access. Extant literature proposed that progressive role expansion—starting one's career specialized in a single work role and later expanding into new work roles—would be helpful to navigate through such a challenge. However, we propose that when …