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This is mostly unrelated to the main topic of the article, but this paragraph caught my eye: > For example, Padavic et al. [20] found that the "work-family" na
by a_puppy 10y ago
This is mostly unrelated to the main topic of the article, but this paragraph caught my eye:
> For example, Padavic et al. [20] found that the "work-family" narrative in business is an example of a social defense: people will say that women leave the workplace because of "family", despite the large amount of evidence that women leave their jobs because of inadequate pay or opportunities
for advancement [20], particularly when they see male co-workers promoted ahead of them. The "work-family" narrative is a more palatable explanation rather than to confront sexual discrimination in the workplace, and so the narrative continues.
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> [20] I. Padavic and R. J. Ely. The work-family narrative as a social defense, 2013.
I tried to track down the work by Padavic et al. that Patitsas et al. are citing, and found this:
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/conferences/2013-w50-research-symposium/Documents/Gender_and_work_web_update2015.pdf http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/conferences/2013-w50-research-sym...
However, this article by Padavic et al. is actually saying something different from the way that Patitsas et al. summarized it. Padavic et al. appear to actually be arguing that the work-family narrative is a social defense against the uncomfortable truth of excessively long working hours for both genders at the corporation, not against any uncomfortable truth about sexual discrimination. Also, Padavic et al. don't seem to discuss sexual discrimination in wages or promotions at all.
Did Patitsas et al. make an error in citing their sources? Am I missing something?
- danieltillett 10y agoMis-citation occurs all the time. When I was a professional scientist I could only find the source for a claim I was interested in less than 25% of the time. I would find some claim and about 50% of the time the reference cited another reference and so on until the chain broke. The other 25% of the time the reference cited said something completely different to what was being claimed. Very frustrating.
- tjl 10y agoDuring my Ph.D. I tried tracking down the reasoning behind a couple sets of assumptions made in non-uniform torsion of beams (e.g., twisting a beam with one end fixed). It turns out that they just kept the same assumptions from uniform torsion (just twisting the beam but with no ends fixed) without checking if they still held (they don't). All because nobody thought to check if the assumptions might be in conflict. The uniform torsion models go back to the mid 1800s, while the non-uniform torsion models are from the early to mid 20th century. So, it's been over 60 years people have been working with wrong assumptions.
- kaffeemitsahne 10y agoThanks for tracking this down, I thought that passage made little sense indeed.
- MustardTiger 10y ago>Did Patitsas et al. make an error in citing their sources? An error if you are very generous. It appears to be deliberately lying about what the source says to match it to the pre-selected explanation they are pushing.