Play with Barbie dolls is an understudied source of gendered socialization that may convey a sexualized adult world to young girls. Early exposure to sexualized images may have unintended consequences in the form of perceived limitations on future selves. We investigated perceptions of careers girls felt they could do in the future as compared to the number of careers they felt boys could do as...

The purpose of this paper is to critically assess the utilization of boundaryless careers in organizations through the lens of how they impact the formation and deployment of organizational social capital. We build a model of the positive and negative effects of boundaryless careers on social capital formation by proposing a more nuanced picture of boundaryless careers. We divide boundaryless c...

The interplay between youth development staff and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) professionals can influence girls’ interest in STEM careers. Build IT, an afterschool and summer youth-based curriculum for middle school girls, uses design, communication technologies, and structured interactions with IT professionals to encourage girls’ IT fluency, interest in mathematic...