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{"title":"Editorial Introduction to the Special Issue: Crises and the (Re)Organizing of Gender and Work","authors":"Kristy Kelly,&nbsp;Jamie L. Callahan,&nbsp;Yasmeen Makarem,&nbsp;Manisha Desai,&nbsp;Firuzeh Shokooh Valle,&nbsp;Akosua Adomako Ampofo","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70109","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.70109","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This introduction develops a feminist framework for analyzing crises by synthesizing seven articles in the <i>Gender, Work &amp; Organization</i> Special Issue, “Crises and the (Re)Organizing of Gender and Work.” Drawing on intersectional, assemblage, and decolonial feminist perspectives, we conceptualize crisis as an enduring condition produced through structural inequalities and the governance of labor, migration, and care. The articles—spanning Chile, India, Lebanon, South Africa, Türkiye, the United Kingdom, and the United States—show how crisis reorganizes gendered work through interconnected dynamics of precarity, care, embodiment, and institutional power. At the same time, they illuminate feminist practices that emerge within crisis, including mutual aid, deep care, insurgent social reproduction, collective action, and institutional critique. We synthesize these contributions through a comparative analytic that clarifies how crises are framed and where change is pursued, advancing a practice-grounded feminist framework for understanding and contesting contemporary crises.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 3","pages":"703-707"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147668277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fertility Governance Through Cascaded Accountability: Building Inclusive Safety Nets for Vulnerable Workers","authors":"Meltem Yavuz Serçekman,&nbsp;Mustafa F. Özbilgin","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70089","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.70089","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines how workplace fertility governance operates as a system of control, consent, and inequality shaped by organizational, cultural, and institutional forces. Drawing on feminist theory, we develop a multilevel framework of cascading accountability that integrates symbolic violence, biopolitics, chrononormativity, and postfeminist agency to analyze how corporate fertility benefits simultaneously expand and constrain reproductive autonomy. Using feminist thematic analysis of media coverage, corporate materials, digital lived experiences, and independent reports, we show how fertility support schemes reinforce normative timelines, managerial control, and affective expectations, particularly for structurally marginalized groups such as migrants, LGBTQ+ workers, and racialized minorities. Throughout this paper, fertility governance is treated not as a women's issue per se but as a system regulating reproductive capacity across differently gendered bodies, including cisgender, transgender, and nonbinary workers. Theoretically, we synthesize Bourdieu's and Foucault's insights with feminist critiques to demonstrate how reproductive governance unfolds across macro, meso, and micro levels. Practically, we argue for a shift from discretionary benefits to rights-based policies grounded in reproductive justice, centering the lived experiences of those whose reproductive needs fall outside normative models.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 3","pages":"919-930"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.70089","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147668688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Digital Entrepreneurship and Gendered Boundaries: Technology, Work–Life Conflict, and Well-Being","authors":"Melina Doargajudhur,&nbsp;Zuberia Hosanoo,&nbsp;Soujata Rughoobur-Seetah,&nbsp;Jessica Lichy","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70090","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.70090","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study explores how women entrepreneurs in a resource-constrained setting adopt and experience personal technology for business purposes within the broader context of digital transformation. Drawing on the technology acceptance model (TAM) and work–life border theory (WLBT), qualitative data were collected through 32 semi-structured interviews with women entrepreneurs operating micro and small enterprises in Mauritius. Findings reveal that perceived usefulness, ease of use, and institutional support drive the adoption of personal devices, enabling flexibility, cost savings, and improved responsiveness to clients. However, constant connectivity also blurs boundaries between work and family life, heightening stress, emotional fatigue, and security concerns, particularly in the absence of technical support. These dynamics unfold in gendered contexts shaped by cultural expectations and caregiving responsibilities, with technology simultaneously supporting business needs while intensifying work–life conflict. Building on these insights, this study proposes a conceptual model highlighting personal technology's dual impact on business performance and well-being, as well as the moderating and mitigating roles of gender norms, structural constraints, and support systems. The findings contribute to scholarship on gender and digital entrepreneurship, offering implications for gender-sensitive policies that promote equitable and supportive technology adoption in similar Global South (GS) contexts.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 3","pages":"883-899"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147668285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Crafting Spaces: Deleuzian Perspectives on Women's Identity Work in Male-Dominated Jobs","authors":"Obaa Akua Konadu-Osei,&nbsp;Smaranda Boroş,&nbsp;Anita Bosch","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70078","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.70078","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper proposes Deleuzian concepts of becoming minor, lines of flight, and deterritorialization and reterritorialization as a way of understanding identity work based on the experiences of women in male-dominated jobs. We suggest that Deleuze's frame emphasizes fluidity and rejects category-limited choices, and it opens up the possibility of engaging with new agentic framing for women utilizing identity work to craft spaces for themselves in a male-dominated work environment. Through a thematic analysis of the experiences of 15 (semi-)skilled women in routine-task, manual, male-dominated jobs across three male-dominated industries in South Africa, we propose an alternative lens for examining women's identity work. This lens both challenges and expands traditional theories, highlighting the nuanced strategies and agentic behavior employed by workplace minorities to carve out niches for themselves in job spaces that often position them at the periphery.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 3","pages":"715-730"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.70078","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147668402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Identity Work and Entrepreneurial Marketing Among Women Entrepreneurs in Vietnam: A Postcolonial Feminist Perspective","authors":"Gunjan Saxena","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70087","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.70087","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper examines how entrepreneurial marketing shapes and is shaped by the identity work of women entrepreneurs in postcolonial Vietnam. Drawing on a postcolonial feminist framework and 23 in-depth interviews conducted on Unicorn Island in the Mekong Delta, this study explores how women navigate gendered expectations, moral obligations and spiritual beliefs in the construction of entrepreneurial identities. The findings demonstrate that marketing operates not merely as a functional business activity but as a gendered and culturally embedded practice through which identity is performed, negotiated and legitimized. Through informal strategies such as storytelling, the mobilization of spiritual symbolism, and embodied performances, women market their enterprises in ways that foreground relationality, morality and community belonging. These practices enable women to establish entrepreneurial credibility while simultaneously resisting dominant, individualized and masculinized models of entrepreneurial success. By centering the lived experiences of women in the Global South, this study contributes to postcolonial feminist debates by conceptualizing entrepreneurial marketing as a key site of gendered identity construction within culturally and spiritually situated contexts.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 3","pages":"832-857"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147668644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From Withering to Flourishing: Repairing Academia Through Holistic and Sustainable Care Practices","authors":"Amy L. Kenworthy,&nbsp;Samantha Cooms,&nbsp;Helen Taylor,&nbsp;Mariel R. K. U'Ren,&nbsp;Clare J. M. Burns,&nbsp;Harsha Sarvaiya,&nbsp;Imogen B. Clarence","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70065","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.70065","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We are scholars and educators committed to embracing care while working within colonialist, neoliberal, and performative academic environments, and we are withering. Our withering is balanced against our inner strength, a fierce belief in connection and community, and a commitment to harnessing the power of transformation. In this article, we advocate for a radical openness and embracing of care-based practices to reshape our learning and teaching spaces and places. To achieve this aim, we identify three themes that represent existing harm-inducing dominant practices within higher education; these include educators' (often unintentional) enactment of (1) “business as usual,” (2) technocratic extractivism, and (3) the “normalization of disconnection.” The themes sit as juxtapositions against seven interconnected care-based prompts for action we share within them. Our prompts for action encourage educators to reclaim their agency and create learning and teaching environments that prioritize respect, reciprocity, accountability, belonging, connection, and repair. By challenging dominant paradigms and highlighting the power of micro-emancipations, we call both to ourselves and other educators to shift from competitive and disconnected learning models to inclusive care-driven practices. It is our hope that this article will inspire educators to authentically engage in journeys of healing while embracing care-based actions that address systemic inequalities and foster meaningful, holistic, and sustainable transformational change.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 3","pages":"743-755"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.70065","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147668800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Informal Women's Work in Public Spaces: Why Should It Matter?","authors":"Philipa Birago Akuoko,&nbsp;Michèle Amacker","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70079","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.70079","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Informal women's work in public spaces is central to livelihoods and social dynamics in cities of the Global South. For decades, public spaces have functioned as vital sites of economic activity, particularly for women engaged in informal work. Yet, recent urban redevelopment initiatives lead to the displacement and marginalization of these workers. This article investigates the complex, everyday ways in which women's work sustains social reproduction amid enduring colonial legacies, patriarchal norms, and precarious economic conditions. Using a qualitative comparative case study approach grounded in decolonial social reproduction theory, this study examines the intersections of women's lived experiences of productive and reproductive work. It highlights the structural challenges faced by women working in public spaces, including exclusion from statutory planning processes and precarity under capitalist urban transformations. Findings show that informal work not only sustains women's financial autonomy and ability to support their families but also constitutes a source of social identity and economic empowerment. This article argues that gender and development discourses must integrate informality as co-constitutive of urbanism to comprehensively address the needs and contributions of women in the Global South. It asserts that recognizing the advantages women gain from informal work can guide policy efforts toward supporting sustainable livelihoods and promoting inclusive economic growth.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 3","pages":"756-767"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.70079","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147668801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Flirting With the Grim Reaper: A Commentary on Aging and Faith","authors":"Edwina Pio","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70093","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.70093","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Age comes a wooing for each of us as we contend with mortality before our encounter with the Grim Reaper. The Grim Reaper is an enduring figure in medieval European Catholicism representing death, usually shown as a skeleton with a dark hood and robe holding a scythe. Black, linked to the black death or plague and black garments at funerals is epitomized in the dark garments of the Grim Reaper whose scythe is a symbol of agriculture, representing the harvesting of souls. Beyond the western Christian tradition, Hine-nui-te-po is the Māori goddess of death, Yama is the Hindu god of death, and Mictecacihuatl is the Aztec queen of the dead, emphasizing how mortality is represented across cultures. A familiar image of death for danger is the ubiquitous skull and crossbones image. Death is an undeniable reality, and confronting mortality often stares one in the face as one gets older, with fears of abandonment and vulnerability. As populations age, organizations grapple with an aging workforce. An estimated 727 million persons were 65+ in 2020 and in 2050, based on better nutrition and medical care, this figure will be 1.5+ billion, with women being the majority. One-in-five women 60+ live alone, though there are differences among women from diverse faith groups. An aging gendered workforce stares organizations in the face. How can organizations serve as resource enablers to circumvent and recalibrate structural and symbolic violence against those who fall into the chronobiological marker of age generally 65+ or often 50+, to rearrange different registers of identity? Can organizations recognize wisdom keepers beyond images of doddering dears and wrinkled visages whose attractiveness may have faded in the eye of the organizational beholder? Worker related ageism has several facets which may be implicit or explicit with a plurality of aspects involving stereotypes, and age-based discrimination in recruitment and employability. Adding to this plurality, the facet of faith and ageism in organizations becomes another delicate aspect to contend with. It is important to stress that the multi-faceted concepts of aging and faith are both socially and culturally constructed and can be linked to those who are faith adherents as well as those who do not have a specific faith such as atheists, agnostics and those without a faith orientation. In this commentary, the aging–faith–gender nexus in organizations is signposted through four crucial dimensions for exploration and analysis: (1) elderly bodies and work; (2) gendered gerontophobia; (3) mortality and death; and (4) organizational cartographies.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 3","pages":"708-714"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147668278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Holy and Hollow: The Emotional Construction of Maternal Exhaustion in Autism Inclusion in Brazil","authors":"Bruno Felix","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70091","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.70091","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article examines how mothers of autistic individuals in Brazil experience the emotional consequences of their caregiving roles in the context of workplace inclusion. Drawing on 23 in-depth interviews and using a grounded theory approach informed by stigma theory and affective events theory, the study explores how spiritualized and moralized expectations shape maternal experiences of strain and recognition. First, I challenge the dominant framing of benevolent stigma in the disability literature, which portrays stigmatized individuals as socially accepted but functionally limited. I propose the concept of existential stigma to describe how mothers are symbolically elevated as pure, chosen, and morally exceptional caregivers, a framing that appears affirming but imposes intense emotional demands and silences expressions of doubt or fatigue. Second, I question the widespread assumption that caregiver strain is a stable psychological state. Instead, I show how maternal exhaustion is socially constructed through the accumulation of morally charged events. By separating episodic violations from generalized emotional states, the study reframes exhaustion as a gendered emotional formation shaped by symbolic reverence and the spiritualization of maternal labor.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 3","pages":"870-882"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147668498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Eyes Wide Shut: Gender Blindness and the Market of Privilege in Polish Academia","authors":"Anna M. Gorska,&nbsp;Elena P. Antonacopoulou,&nbsp;Nina Kotula","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70097","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.70097","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article makes a compelling contribution in advancing our understanding of the unintended consequences of gender equality initiatives within Polish higher education institutions (HEIs) by demonstrating the willful ignorance of the persistent inequalities, which we term the phenomenon of “eyes wide shut.” Consistent with the previous reference to neoliberal policies perpetuating a “market of privilege” that fosters gender blindness and enhances systemic inequalities, our analysis extends these by drawing attention to the lack of ownership and accountability in addressing these inequalities. It is about the emerging phenomenon of willfully ignoring persistent gender inequalities by choosing not to take a stance, despite being afforded that choice as a social actor. Drawing on in-depth qualitative research involving 30 academics from Polish business schools, we reveal a widespread belief in meritocracy, especially among male participants, who claim that academic work is solely competence-based and thus disregard gender inequalities. This gender-blind stance not only neglects the structural challenges faced by women but also perpetuates male-dominated and hegemonic academic norms. We identify a paradox where gender equality initiatives, often viewed as unnecessary or forced, provoke resistance from some male academics, who perceive them as discriminatory. Men in the study expressed feelings of reverse discrimination, citing concerns over women's increasing presence in leadership roles and all-female research teams. At the same time, female academics frequently recount experiences of marginalization and inequality. These narratives showcase how gender blindness reinforces a market of privilege by willfully ignoring them. We make the case that alongside concepts such as gender blindness as a mechanism that upholds a market of privilege in academia, where perceived neutrality conceals persistent gender biases, there is also the reluctance to own up and to exercise the choice afforded to social actors to address gender inequalities. We conceptualize this willful refusal to act as part of the phenomenon we term “eyes wide shut.” We explain this phenomenon as another unintended consequence of neoliberal systems modeled after Western standards that fail to create genuine equality. We adopt a place-based orientation that helps us explain this willful ignorance as a consequence of the broader sociocultural and historical context in which Polish HEIs operate.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 3","pages":"931-946"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147668696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}