Gendered Identification: Between Idealization and Admiration
通过分析MBA学生对认同对象的描述，区分了理想化（夸大某人）与钦佩（讨论优缺点）两种话语，发现男女学生多理想化白手起家的CEO，而女性主要钦佩其他女性并提及她们的优缺点。
While much of the literature on gender focuses on role models, this paper extends the understanding of gendered professional identification processes by exploring these processes through the lenses of idealization and admiration. Using the method of discourse analysis to analyse MBA students' accounts of people with whom they identify, this paper explores discourses of idealization, defined as aggrandizing a person, and of admiration, which means discussing positive as well as negative and neutral characteristics of a person. It is shown, first, that most male and female MBA students idealized the self‐made ‘authentic’ CEO or founder of an organization and, second, that women mainly admired other women through naming their positive, neutral and negative attributes. The paper thereby adds to understanding of how gendered identification processes are structured by idealization and admiration.