Michel Anteby wins prestigious 2022 ASQ Award for Scholarly Contribution

Michel Anteby, Professor, Management & Organizations and HRPI Faculty Fellow, was awarded the 2022 ASQ Award for Scholarly Contribution for the article,

Task Segregation as a Mechanism for Within-Job Inequality: Women and Men of the Transportation Security Administration. “This insightful paper shows how core work tasks are allocated between men and women within the same job and how these task assignments can help explain and perpetuate workplace inequality. Through extensive interviews with airport screeners for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), they find that female TSA officers are more frequently assigned the physically and emotionally taxing job of patting down passengers, while male TSA officers are more likely to rotate between different, less demanding tasks (i.e., x-ray screening and exit monitoring). The authors chronicle the toll this takes on female workers, finding that female TSA officers report more emotional and physical exhaustion. This leads them to take more recuperative time off, constricts the development of the diverse skill sets needed for promotion, and helps explain lower rates of promotion, satisfaction, and pay, as well as higher turnover for women.”  Read the full article here.