Creating a new pathway for change in the military using gender as process

IF 3.9 1区 社会学 Q2 MANAGEMENT
Jessica Williams, Sophie Yates, James Connor
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Abstract

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 within militaries. A gender as process approach recognizes the dynamic, enduring, and complex set of gendered practices and systems that affect everyday interactions and social relations. Using this frame, militaries can develop an understanding of how these processes operate—particularly, as a form of resistance to gender equality in these “extremely gendered organizations”—and can develop improved strategies for change. We use the Australian Defence Force as our case study to illustrate how gender as category approaches dominate reform attempts and how the gender as process approach offers new insights on how to promote gender equality in the military.

以性别为进程,为军队变革开辟新途径
尽管数十年来一直在进行协调一致的改革尝试,但军队一直在努力将女性纳入武器职业。我们认为,造成这种零星进展的部分原因是将性别概念化为 "类别",而这在解释性别不平等方面的作用有限。我们建议,还必须采用将性别视为过程的方法来理解军队中性别关系的现状。性别作为过程的方法承认影响日常互动和社会关系的一系列动态、持久和复杂的性别实践和系统。利用这一框架,军队可以了解这些过程是如何运作的--尤其是在这些 "性别化程度极高的组织 "中,这些过程是性别平等的一种阻力形式--并可以制定出更好的变革策略。我们将澳大利亚国防军作为案例研究,以说明作为类别的性别方法是如何主导改革尝试的,以及作为过程的性别方法是如何为如何促进军队中的性别平等提供新见解的。
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CiteScore
11.50
自引率
13.80%
发文量
139
期刊介绍: Gender, Work & Organization is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal. The journal was established in 1994 and is published by John Wiley & Sons. It covers research on the role of gender on the workfloor. In addition to the regular issues, the journal publishes several special issues per year and has new section, Feminist Frontiers,dedicated to contemporary conversations and topics in feminism.
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