Women's Participation in Collective Action for Workplace Gender Equality: The Role of Perceived Relative Deprivation, Resentment, and Moral Conviction.
Gender-based collective action is essential to close widespread gender gaps in the workplace and pursue gender equality. To understand the processes underlying engagement in different forms of action, this research focused on women's relative deprivation arising from the perception of unjust dispari...
| Published in: | Sex Roles Vol. 91; no. 4; pp. 1 - 21 |
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Springer Nature
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