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639 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 6 (2012)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0639 and id is 1 raw text is: INTRODUCTION Gender, Race, and Management By MATT L. HUFFMAN Keywords: gender; race; management; inequality Inequality scholars need no convincing about the importance of managerial occupations. Differential access to managerial jobs is one of inequality's linchpins, as these positions secure higher average wages and other rewards for their incumbents than do other jobs. Besides spawning an expansive academic literature, the question of access to managerial jobs for pro- tected groups has also been the focus of count- less gender and race discrimination lawsuits, has formed the basis of numerous government reports (e.g., U.S. Government Accountability Office 2010), and, made the glass ceiling a household term. The past few decades have witnessed provoca- tive trends regarding women and racial/ethnic minorities in management. For women, their overall representation in managerial occupations has markedly improved, although there is mount- ing empirical evidence of the slowing of manage- rial gender integration (Cohen, Huffman, and Knauer 2009). Therefore, changes in women's managerial representation can be viewed in the context of the possible stall in progress toward gender equality that has captured some scholars' attention recently (e.g., Cotter, Hermsen, and Vanneman 2004; England 2010). Research on the gender stall points to an ebbing of progress toward gender equality on a number of key indi- cators, including labor force participation among female managers (Percheski 2008) and wages Matt L. Huffman is an associate professor of sociol- ogy at the University of California, Irvine. In addi- tion to gender and racial inequality within and across organizations, his work examines changes in access to managerial positions for women and racial minio>ritles and the conseq<uences of those changes for other workers. His recent work appears in the American Sociological Review and Administrative Science Quarterly. DOI: 10.1177/0002716211422035 ANNALS, AAPSS, 639, January, 2012 6

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