ABSTRACT

The concepts glass escalator and glass ceiling have been widely used in studies of gender and organisations. In this paper we propose a novel metaphor to describe and analyse gender segregation and discrimination, that of a glass funnel. This concept does not relate to men and women as groups in the sense of fixed collective entities, but rather shows how taken-for-granted distinctions between men and women are reiterated and promote men in a way that downgrades women. However, as gender intersects with other power structures, both men and women can be propelled downwards through the funnelling motion made up of a market-oriented devaluation of the healthcare profession. Through an empirical investigation of the community of practice and gender regime of an upper secondary healthcare education programme in Sweden, we develop the glass funnel concept, an analytical tool aiming to open up for intersectional analyses of healthcare education and work.

摘要

玻璃自动扶梯和玻璃天花板的概念已被广泛用于性别和组织研究。在本文中，我们提出了一个新颖的比喻来描述和分析性别隔离和歧视，即玻璃漏斗. 这个概念与作为固定集体实体意义上的群体的男性和女性无关，而是表明男性和女性之间理所当然的区别是如何被重申的，并以贬低女性的方式提升男性。然而，由于性别与其他权力结构相交，男性和女性都可以通过由市场导向的医疗保健行业贬值组成的漏斗运动被推向下层。通过对瑞典高中医疗保健教育项目的实践社区和性别制度的实证调查，我们开发了玻璃漏斗概念，这是一种分析工具，旨在为医疗保健教育和工作的交叉分析开辟道路。