Changing perceptions of meritocracy in senior women's careers

Gender, race, and meritocracy in organizational careers.

This study helps to fill a significant gap in the literature on organizations and inequality by investigating the central role of merit-based reward systems in shaping gender and racial disparities in wages and promotions. The author develops and tests a set of propositions isolating processes of performance-reward bias, whereby women and minorities receive less compensation than white men with...

GP careers: changing student perspectives.

Changing perceptions, changing reality.

Medical Students' Perceptions of Emergency Medicine Careers

Introduction Previous studies on specialty choice have investigated specialty characteristics that are appealing to undergraduate students. Little is known about how students' attitudes towards Emergency Medicine (EM) careers evolve over their schooling. Methods An open-ended survey of medical students' career interests was distributed five times over the four-year undergraduate curriculum from...

Changing Perceptions of Zoos