Intersectionality and equity: Dynamic bureaucratic representation in higher education

Fay, Daniel L., Hicklin Fryar, Alisa, Meier, Kenneth J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6378-0855 and Wilkins, Vicky 2021. Intersectionality and equity: Dynamic bureaucratic representation in higher education. Public Administration 99 (2) , pp. 335-352. 10.1111/padm.12691

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Abstract

Representative bureaucracy scholarship has yet to address two interrelated phenomena: intersectionality and changes in relative disadvantage over time. This manuscript addresses these gaps by assessing representation effects at the intersection of race/ethnicity and sex and in previously, but no longer, disadvantaged client groups. It also argues that if bureaucratic representation is viewed as a quest for equity, then representation will decline as disadvantaged client groups approach equity in policy outcomes. Using panel data for US higher education, this study highlights the importance of intersectional representation in bureaucratic organizations. In three of the four race/ethnic/sex combinations, students perform better in the presence of faculty who match them intersectionally (in the fourth case, race but not sex matters). The empirical results also find that as a formerly disadvantaged client group (women) becomes successful within an organization, the active representation relationship declines. These implications inform future representative bureaucracy scholarship examining intersectional groups.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	0033-3298
Funders:	none
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	28 January 2022
Date of Acceptance:	8 January 2020
Last Modified:	21 Nov 2024 10:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/147053

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