Congratulations to SCOOP PhD researcher Sofie Wiersma on her new article!
In “Change Agents with a Past: Women Executives’ Early-Career Contexts and Gender Equality at Workplaces,” published in Work and Occupations, Sofie and her co-authors (including SCOOP colleague Zoltán Lippényi) find that early-career female executives surrounded by women in positions of leadership (such as CEOs or board members) are more likely to advance the professions of other women later in their careers. As Sofie and her co-authors write, “Experiencing women on boards and in powerful positions early in their managerial careers is generally associated with women executives having a more positive effect on women’s wages and job permanency on the work floor.”
Curious to learn more? You can read the scientific article here.
Sofie’s research has also recently been highlighted in the RUG’s Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences newsletter. Click here to read more about her research into female leaders in the workplace.
Sofie will be defending her thesis “Imprints at Work: How the pasts of organizations and leaders shape workplace precarity and inequality” at the University of Groningen on Monday 2 June. Interested in attending the ceremony? You can find the details here.
