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Continuum of care to advance women as leaders in male‐dominated industries Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Wendy O’Brien, Clare Hanlon, Vasso Apostolopoulos
Women who enter professions that have previously been male‐dominated often struggle to rise through ranks to leadership positions. Herein, we present the findings of a 12‐month cross‐sector intervention focused on embedding practices into organizations to create an inclusive organizational environment that fostered the development of women leaders. The intervention focused on three male‐dominated sectors
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“I feel like I am betraying my child”: The socio‐politics of maternal guilt and shame Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Annadís Greta Rúdólfsdóttir, Auður Magndís Auðardóttir
In this paper, we explore maternal shame and guilt as affective derivatives of social regulations of motherhood in Iceland, which is internationally perceived as a frontrunner in gender equality. We analyze 450 qualitative questionnaires completed by parents describing feelings of guilt and shame in connection to parenthood. We use 76 questionnaires completed by fathers to contrast and compare to answers
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Feminism and social movements: Notes on hope and despair Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Nela Smolović‐Jones, Marjana Johansson, Alison Pullen, Katarina Giritli‐Nygren
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Becoming a mother in neoliberal academia: Subjectivation and self‐identity among early career researchers Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Concetta Russo
This paper investigates how becoming a mother—and navigating such a complicated life transition—while pursuing an academic career impacts the way female researchers perceive themselves as acting subjects. By analyzing in‐depth virtual interviews with Italian female early career researchers, this work explores the relationship between fertility decisions, motherhood hardships, self‐identity, and career‐related
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Labor of love: Re‐membering dismembered bodies in community research Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Hlengiwe Ndlovu
Ethnographic studies are practically invasive in nature in that they intrude into people's everyday experiences. It is therefore the duty of a researcher documenting experiences of women to pay attention to these forms of violence and undertake the labor of love that seeks to re‐member women's bodies and their stories in ways that restore their dignity and contribute to healing. African feminists have
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Nomads, thresholds, and leaves: Queer entanglements within the AcademicConferenceMachine Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Angelo Benozzo, Davide Bizjak, Daniela Pianezzi, Luigi Maria Sicca
This paper presents the mise en espace of an anti‐drama‐liturgy written for the Conference “Salute e Benessere delle Persone Transgender e Gender Diverse: Buone Prassi e Nuove Prospettive [Wellbeing of Transgender and Gender Diverse People: Good Practices and New Perspectives]”. By providing an example of conferencing differently, the paper depicts an elliptical (round)table that questions normative
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Exploring caring collaborations in academia through feminist reflexive dialogs Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Janet Johansson, Grace Gao, Ingela Sölvell, Caroline Wigren‐Kristoferson
This study challenges the prevailing collaboration norms within academia, which predominantly adhere to meritocratic principles favoring masculine and individualistic values. These principles often result in a productivity paradigm centered on publications and high research performance. We contend that such collaboration norms perpetuate exclusionary practices, limiting the participation of women and
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The price women attorneys pay for being mothers in South African law firms Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Tamlynne Meyer
This paper presents the findings of a study undertaken amongst women attorneys in South Africa, to determine the impact motherhood has on their legal career. The argument is that motherhood is incompatible with the hyper-competitive male dominant professional culture of the legal profession. The paper employs Edgar Schein's concept of organisational culture and Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of field,
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Issue Information Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2024-02-13
No abstract is available for this article.
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MotherHack: Creative coding as an artist-mother Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 EL Putnam
Enmeshed in the materiality of caregiving, becoming a mother changes how one relates to the world and others. These changes involve how a mother as subject is defined by others through cultural and societal idealizations of motherhood and parenting norms, but also through the leaking boundaries between the mother and other subjects as she is attuned to the needs of caregiving. In this analysis, I consider
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“Get your tits out for the lads” true stories from a woman in football by Sally Freedman: Breaking silences to affect change in football organizing. By Michelle O’Shea, New South Wales: Fair Play Publishing. 2023. pp. 1–164. AUD $29.99. ISBN:978-1-925914-66-5 Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Michelle O’Shea
1 SETTING THE SCENE An innocuous suggestion on a podcast that she had sufficient experiences of misogyny, sexism, and harassment for a book has, 12 months later, become just that. The publication and launch of international sport management professional Sally Freedman's book, “Get your tits out for the lads” true stories from a woman in football (2023) was purposefully cast against the backdrop of
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Closed doors: Domestic space, household labor, and the reproduction of gender inequality in the pandemic lockdown Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Michelle Cera, Eric Klinenberg
The pandemic offered a unique opportunity to shift gendered expectations and create a more equal division of domestic labor in the home. As an organizational unit, the home represents a significant domain to investigate gendered power relations and transformations. Change was especially possible for couples where employed fathers, who typically left for work, began to spend far more time at home. Surveys
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Banter and beyond: The role of humor in addressing gendered organizational tensions and belonging within the UK Fire and Rescue Service Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Anna Brown, Ruth Woodfield
This article explores the role of humor, specifically banter, in addressing gendered organizational tensions within the UK Fire and Rescue Service during a period of modernizing change. Such tensions reflect who holds authority and who is deemed to belong, and we explore how banter is used to both contest and confirm authority associated with the formal rank system and the informal, masculinist ideal-typical
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The cost of crossing gender boundaries: Trans women of color and the racialized workplace gender order Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Joss Greene, Woods Ervin
How does persistent and cumulative gender regulation produce economic insecurity? Trans people face markedly high levels of workplace discrimination, unemployment, and poverty, and therefore offer unique insight into this question. Prior research theorizes how trans workers get repositioned in a binary, patriarchal gender order, but we lack a conceptual model to explain the labor market experience
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Dilemmas of recognition and redistribution: Constituting intersectional subjects of inclusion in migrant support work Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Laura Kangas-Müller
In this study, I explore how the subject of inclusion is constituted as intersectional in the organizational discursive practices of a civil society organization promoting migrant and refugee inclusion. Drawing on Crenshaw's notion of political intersectionality and Fraser's politics of recognition and redistribution, I analyze the political dimension of an inclusion project by showing how intersectional
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The workplace as a site of abortion surveillance Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Fiona Bloomer, Danielle Mackle, Nóirín MacNamara, Claire Pierson, Stephen Bloomer
Analysis of the experiences and resulting inequalities in reproductive health in the workplace has generated studies of pregnancy, miscarriage, menstruation, fertility and menopause. One issue that has remained outside of this literature is abortion. How abortion is talked about (or not talked about), experienced and perceived as a workplace issue were the central questions in our research undertaken
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“Subjectivities, academic work and mothering practice”: Navigating obscure and unspoken disciplines Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-12-25 Michelle O’Shea, Sarah Duffy, Emilee Gilbert
A robust and important body of scholarship is exploring the multiple and layered complexities of mothering and paid work. In this paper, we theoretically and empirically contribute to this work by exploring how, at the level of the self, women with children understand themselves in relation to their paid work and their mothering. We have examined this focus using a post-structural feminist lens inspired
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Transitioning Thailand: Techno-professionalism and nation-building in the transgender entertainment industry Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Reya Farber
The workplace is a key site through which sex and gender are organizationally produced and unequal gender relations take place. Technologies, which are embedded with and impacting gendered power relations, are also integral to work and workplaces worldwide. As nation-states promote technologies and rebrand themselves, how do technologies catalyze new forms of gendered embodiment and work—and how might
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Care as infrastructure: Rethinking working mothers' childcare crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Meng Li, Corrina Laughlin
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States government promoted the idea of care as infrastructure to justify government spending on nonphysical infrastructures. In this article, we demonstrate the usefulness of adopting an infrastructure framework for researching care and caring through an analysis of working mothers' communication on Reddit in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Employing
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Who cares for carers? Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Anonymous
1 INTRODUCTION Domestic violence “refers to violent behavior between current or former intimate partners—typically where one partner tries to exert power and control over the other, usually through fear. It can include physical, sexual, emotional, social, verbal, spiritual and economic abuse” (Mission Australia, 2021). While the number of people affected by domestic violence will probably never be
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Persistent pandemic: The unequal impact of COVID labor on early career academics Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Edmée Ballif, Isabelle Zinn
The COVID-19 pandemic has not only highlighted preexisting inequalities in academia but has also exacerbated them while giving rise to novel forms of disparities. Drawing upon our experiences as women, parents, and early career academics (ECAs) in Switzerland and enriched by feminist theory on reproductive labor and carework, we examine the unequal impacts of the pandemic. First, our analysis reveals
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Organizing vulnerability exploring Judith Butler's conceptualization of vulnerability to study organizations Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Isabella Scheibmayr
This paper argues that vulnerability as conceptualized by Judith Butler is a useful lens to study organizations. Judith Butler conceptualizes vulnerability as both universally shared human condition and individually experienced, thereby describes how vulnerability is both a bodily ontology (we are all vulnerable due to our human bodies being dependent on each other to support us), and an epistemic
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Issue Information Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-12-11
No abstract is available for this article.
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Feminism in organization studies? It is a long story: A conversation between Silvia Gherardi and Lynne Baxter Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Silvia Gherardi, Lynne F. Baxter
This paper is an edited version of a conversation between Silvia Gherardi and Lynne Baxter at the Inaugural Distinguished Speaker Event of the Gender, Materialities, and Activism Network. We learn about the development of Professor Gherardi's interest in feminism, how it evolves and informs her wider work on organization studies and methodology, and how she supports community development while advancing
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Gender, vulnerabilities, and how the other becomes the otherer in academia Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Esme Franken, Fleur Sharafizad, Kerry Brown
This article draws on the work of Judith Butler, particularly the notion of vulnerability in/as resistance, to explore the gendered experiences of women in Australian academia. Through employing an arts-based research method, Draw, Write, and Reflect, with women academics in Australia, we explore the ways in which vulnerabilities are identified and navigated in the context of academia. Our study identified
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The becoming of worker mothers: The untold narratives of an identity transition Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Lucia Garcia-Lorenzo, Lorena Carrasco, Zehra Ahmed, Alice Morgan, Kim Sznajder, Leonie Eggert
Worker mothers still struggle to find a good balance between their care and work identities. Most research on motherhood at work focuses on how organizational structures can enable professional women to find a balance between caring and work identities neglecting their personal experiences and how they understand themselves in relation to both motherhood and work. We propose to use a liminal identity
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The power of sharing with support: Exploring the process and roles involved in sharing vulnerability in solidarity Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Pamela Agata Suzanne, Lea Katharina Reiss
In this paper, we investigate the process and the intertwined and entangled roles involved in sharing vulnerability in solidarity through collective autoethnographic exploration. We draw on the sharing process we engaged with in relation to the personal experience of one of us with long COVID-related vulnerability, in addition to and intensified by the gendered vulnerability of being a mother during
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Networked feminism in a digital age—mobilizing vulnerability and reconfiguring feminist politics in digital activism Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Sheena J. Vachhani
In what ways can we understand the productive tensions and complexities of digital feminist activism? This paper explores the increase of networked feminism, which focuses attention on digital activism and its relation to transformative social change. It suggests that we need a better understanding of how digital feminist activism might be changing the shape of transnational feminist resistance and
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Useless bodies? Exploring the ethical potential of art Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Daniela Pianezzi
This paper examines the ethical value of artistic artifacts in challenging the unequal valuation of working bodies with a focus on the contemporary art exhibition ‘Useless bodies?’ by Danish artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset. Drawing on Judith Butler's work and posthuman theory, particularly Braidotti's contributions, the paper argues that this exhibition exemplifies how art can foster an
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Feminist ethnoracial entrepreneurship among Latina elite and middle-class entrepreneurs Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Karina Santellano, Jody Agius Vallejo
Latinas represent one of the fastest-growing groups of entrepreneurs in the United States, yet they are understudied in entrepreneurship research. Through three case studies of middle-class and wealthy Latinas, we explore how ethnorace, gender, immigration, class, and community shape their entrepreneurial endeavors as they practice what we refer to as feminist ethnoracial entrepreneurship–entrepreneurial
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Elizabeth Gaskell: An overlooked political economist and proto theorist in the field of industrial relations Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Kristin S. Williams
This polemical essay argues that Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, and her novels North and South, and Mary Barton, portray her as an overlooked, early political economist. The objective of the paper is three-fold: (1) to dismantle taken-for-granted truth claims that Alan Fox is the preeminent thinker on pluralistic forms of employee engagement (2) encourage further development and enlargement
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“Quem pode ser a dona?”: Afro-Brazilian women entrepreneurs and gendered racism Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Demetrius Miles Murphy
In 2013, the number of Black entrepreneurs surpassed the number of White entrepreneurs in Brazil. Of those Black entrepreneurs, 30 percent were women. In Brazil, gendered racism often stereotypes Black women as domestic servants or hypersexual. Despite the robust literature on Afro-Brazilians generally and Afro-Brazilian women particularly, Afro-Brazilian women entrepreneurs, their experiences, and
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Telling a supervisor about experiences of gendered dismissal: Problems of documentation, tellability, and failed authority Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Melisa Stevanovic, Antero Olakivi, Henri Nevalainen, Pentti Henttonen, Niklas Ravaja
Difficulties of documentation characterize many problematic experiences of social interaction. Here, we study such difficulties by analyzing a case in which an employee tells her supervisor about the gendered dismissal that she has experienced at work. Using video-recorded performance appraisal interviews as data and conversation analysis and positioning analysis as methods, we examine how the experience
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Fashion as embodied resistance: The case of Jewish ultraorthodox female entrepreneurs Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Varda Wasserman, Avital Baikovich
Drawing on the qualitative research of Jewish ultraorthodox female fashion entrepreneurs (JUFFE) in Israel, we examine how women's body regulations are collectively negotiated, challenged, and resisted. Our paper shows that, through the disruption of religious clothing and hairstyling, JUFFEs have challenged the patriarchal expectations of women's ideal type in their authoritative society and triggered
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Platform work-lives in the gig economy: Recentering work–family research Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Al James
Crowdwork platforms have been widely celebrated as challenging gendered labor market inequalities through new digitally mediated possibilities for reconciling work, home, and family. This paper interrogates those claims and explores the wider implications of digital labor platforms for an expansive work–family research agenda stubbornly rooted in formal modes of employment in the “analogue” economy
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Caring is resisting: Lessons from domestic workers' mobilizations during COVID-19 in Latin America Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Louisa Acciari
Domestic workers were one of the most negatively affected groups by COVID-19 in Latin America, yet they have also been resisting and mobilizing in impressive and innovative ways. This article shows that domestic workers' organizations were able to adapt to an extremely adverse context in order to protect their members and defend their rights. Furthermore, their mobilizations provide an alternative
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‘Othering’ the unprepared: Exploring the foodwork of Brexit-prepping mothers Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-11-04 Ben Kerrane, Katy Kerrane, Shona Bettany, David Rowe
We explore the foodwork performed by white middle-class mothers in the United Kingdom who were preparing to feed their families in anticipation of post-Brexit resource scarcity. We illustrate their laborious preparations (‘prep-work’) as they stockpiled items (mostly food) in anticipation of shortages. We reveal tensions in how they envisaged how (and who) to feed. Analysis reveals how our (privileged
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Troubling organizational violence with Judith Butler: Surviving whistleblower reprisals Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Kate Kenny, Mahaut Fanchini
How do workers who encounter violence by deviating from organizational norms make sense of their experiences? Our article engages with Judith Butler's work on vulnerability and troubling to address this. Inspired by these concepts while analyzing empirical data gathered from whistleblowers in financial services, we propose a framing termed “aggression-troubling”. Aggression-troubling encompasses an
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The march for gender equality of Algerian women: The struggle for spatial and historical recognition Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Nacima Ourahmoune, Hounaida El Jurdi
Social and political anti-government movements have been major headlines across the globe in recent years, with a noticeable participation of women. In the MENA region, such movements spanned Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, and Lebanon among others. Through an ethnographic inquiry into the Algerian pro-democracy movement Hirak (2019–2021), we delve into women's experiences of the Hirak to show how women remain
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Indonesian women leaders navigating hegemonic femininity: A Gramscian lens Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Fitri Hariana Oktaviani
Hegemonic femininity is a concept beginning to receive scholarly attention, and this paper illustrates how it has become a critical factor hindering women's leadership opportunities in Indonesia. This study aims to understand how women leaders adopt, modify, or reject forms of hegemonic femininity that interpellate their constructions of subjectivity. This paper employs a discourse analysis of interview
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Working from home during COVID-19: What does this mean for the ideal worker norm? Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Sue Williamson, Helen Taylor, Vindhya Weeratunga
The ideal worker norm is associated with specific ways of working. The ideal worker is a man who works long hours, is constantly available, and highly productive. Emerging research suggests that the shock of COVID-19, which forced millions of employees to work from home, may have been powerful enough to disrupt the ideal worker norm. We therefore ask: how did working from home during the pandemic impact
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“When money is more valuable than people…”: The pandemic as a call for business to care Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Heidi Reed
The COVID-19 pandemic created extreme conditions in which the need for care was overwhelming and led to competing stakeholder demands. What are society's expectations of business in such conditions, and how might these expectations challenge traditional understandings of the business in society relationship? Using a qualitative survey during the initial stages of the pandemic, the study draws on participants
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Poetic encounters in field work Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Tommy Jensen, Yashar Mahmud
In this paper, we seek to belong to the “writing differently” turn in organization studies. We argue that writing poetry when doing field work is a way of disrupting and unsettling the objective scientific gaze, the scientific ideal of experiencing the world, and of opening for the Buberian world—the world as an encounter in itself. A tension framed by Buber as I-It and I-You. Rather than merely arguing
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Women construction workers in Nepal: Collectivities under precarious conditions Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Kalpana Wilson, Feyzi Ismail, Sambriddhi Kharel, Swechchha Dahal
In this article, we explore the experiences of women construction workers in Nepal and the strategies that these workers have adopted to challenge the exploitation and inequalities they confront. We firstly argue that the experiences of women construction workers in Nepal are shaped by compulsive engagement in labor markets under conditions of informality, precarity, and gendered responsibility for
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Issue Information Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-10-15
No abstract is available for this article.
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Writing Differently: On the Constraints and Possibilities of Presenting Research Rooted in Feminist Epistemologies Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Jerzy Kociatkiewicz, Monika Kostera
In this article, we adopted the genre of response letter, answering an editorial letter proposing to reject our submission. The rejection letter itself is fictionalized, but collated from various real reviews our texts have received throughout our academic career. Our aim is to both highlight the mechanisms pushing academic writing toward conformity, dullness, and irrelevance and to point toward the
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Valuation of domestic work: Construction of stay-at-home motherhood among elite Chinese migrants in Singapore Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Zheng Mu, Eunsil Oh
This study contributes to the literature on migration, motherhood, and work by exploring how migrant stay-at-home mothers view and interpret the values of the unpaid work that they are conducting. Using semi-structured in-depth interviews with 36 college-educated Chinese stay-at-home mothers in Singapore, we demonstrate migrant mothers' agency, efforts, and strategies in valuing domestic work and their
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Old norms in the new normal: Exploring and resisting the rise of the ideal pandemic worker Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-10-07 Frederike Scholz, Liz Oliver, Jennifer Tomlinson, Robert MacKenzie, Jo Ingold
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT There is also no conflict of interest associated with this paper and my co-authors and I are the only authors of this manuscript.
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Vulnerability and affective solidarity: Feminist assemblies in Appalachia under and after the Trump presidency Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Cheyenne Luzynski, Martina Angela Caretta, Emily Tanner
Following the 2016 elections, several feminist groups emerged in the U.S. in response to the election of President Trump. This manuscript focuses on a feminist assembly located in marginal and conservative Appalachia. Grounded in reflexivity, we employ affective solidarity to better understand feminist organizing in a post-Trump rural Appalachian town. Based on a collaborative ethnography, including
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Rethinking gender diversity: Transgender and gender nonconforming people and gender as constellation Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Olga Suhomlinova, Saoirse Caitlin O’Shea, Ilaria Boncori
In this article, we challenge the mainstream view of gender rooted in binary cisnormativity and suggest that the gender frameworks used to inform organizational research and practice are inadequate with respect to the range of transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) identities. We employ Hacking's “dynamic nominalism” to illustrate how evolving classifications of TGNC people operate as a discriminating
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Reshaping gendered norms in entrepreneurship: Incorporating gender identity and entrepreneurial practice Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Monique Ingrid Boddington
This paper presents a practice theoretical conception of gender in entrepreneurship, emphasizing the potential of reflexivity and collective agency to reshape gendered norms. While the literature recognizes the fluidity of gender and its intersectional nature, it often overlooks how social phenomena are produced and relate to each other. The main aim of this is to show, not just how, gendered norms
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Writing touch, writing (epistemic) vulnerability Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Anna-Liisa Kaasila-Pakanen, Pauliina Jääskeläinen, Grace Gao, Emmanouela Mandalaki, Ling Eleanor Zhang, Katja Einola, Janet Johansson, Alison Pullen
Touch mediates relations between self-other, writers, and readers; it is material and affective. This paper is the outcome of writing touch as a collaborative activity between eight women writers across different times and locals. In sharing experiences of touch during and beyond the pandemic, we engage with collaborative writing articulated here as colligere, involving the assembling of writing in
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Negotiating work, family, and traffic: Articulations of married women's employment decisions in Greater Jakarta Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-09-23 Diahhadi Setyonaluri, Ariane Utomo
The international literature on women and work calls on scholars to consider geographical, sociocultural, and institutional contexts governing women's employment dynamics over their life course. In Indonesia (and other lower middle-income regions in Southeast Asia), female labor force participation is lower in urban areas than rural areas. The largest drop-off occurs after marriage and childbearing
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Stigmatizing commoning: How neoliberal hegemony eroded collective ability to deal with scarcity in Lebanon Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Dima Younes
This paper examines how neoliberalism impedes the emergence of alternative organizations. Via a mix of (auto-)ethnography and memory work, it explains how neoliberal values replacing more traditional ones eroded the collective capacity to bring solutions to scarcity problems in today's Lebanon. It points to the stigmatization of the role of mothers, who once were the “guardians” of organizing around
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Set in motion. Paradoxical narratives of becoming Swedish digital media influencers Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Gabriella Nilsson
This article analyzes how Swedish digital media influencers make sense of their careers in print media interviews and autobiographical books. I explore how influencers use metaphors involving motion, speed and acceleration to describe, explain and legitimate the various circumstances and phases of their career development, and how these metaphors may be viewed in the wider context of social acceleration
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Anticipating resistance: Teaching gender and management to business school students Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Micaela Stierncreutz, Janne Tienari
Gender perspectives and feminism are rarely considered legitimate in business school education. Existing research tells us that those who teach in business schools do so in conditions where feminist theories and pedagogy evoke resistance and where their work is paved with discomfort caused by tensions between feminist and neoliberal idea(l)s. We argue that for those challenging the status quo in the
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Creating a new pathway for change in the military using gender as process Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Jessica Williams, Sophie Yates, James Connor
Militaries have consistently struggled to integrate women into the profession of arms despite concerted, decades-long attempts at reform. We argue that this patchy progress is due in part to a conceptualization of gender as “category”, which has limited power to explain gendered inequalities. We propose that gender as process approaches must also be used to understand the current state of gender relations
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Why are conflicts about race a point of no return for feminist organizations? Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Léa Dorion
This article seeks to advance scholarship on conflict in feminist organizations. Using the theoretical framework on agonistic conflict of Chantal Mouffe, it analyzes a conflict about racism that arose in a feminist lesbian, bi and trans social movement organization, located in Paris (France). The main contribution lies in offering a framework to analyze the mechanisms that prevented this conflict from
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The gender pay gap—What's the problem represented to be? Analyzing the discourses of Estonian employers, employees, and state officials on pay equality Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-08-26 Kadri Aavik, Pille Ubakivi-Hadachi, Maaris Raudsepp, Triin Roosalu
The gender pay gap (GPG) remains significant in most countries and is a key indicator of gender inequality in society. Qualitative research on the GPG is scarce, yet, qualitative perspectives on the GPG are valuable as the ways in which the GPG is understood and talked about shape actions to tackle it. This article focuses on how the GPG is represented in the context of work and organizations, inspired
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Angela Rayner (Member of Parliament) and the “Basic Instinct Ploy”: Intersectional misrecognition of women leaders' legitimacy, productive resistance and flexing (patriarchal) discourse Gend. Work Organ. (IF 5.428) Pub Date : 2023-08-26 Valerie Stead, Sharon Mavin, Carole Elliott
This paper interrogates a shift in patriarchal media discourse related to women leaders' recognition and legitimation in the UK. We conduct a multimodal discourse analysis of an online newspaper article about the UK politician and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, Angela Rayner, and analyzed public responses. Understanding the media as a means to distribute power and enable the challenging of norms