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{"title":"Experiencing and Responding to Existential Vulnerability: Navigating the Work–Fertility Treatment Interface","authors":"Céire Gilsenan,&nbsp;Yseult Freeney,&nbsp;Lisa van der Werff,&nbsp;Hilary O'Leary","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.70191","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The need to undergo fertility treatment to fulfill parenthood aspirations involves many challenges in professional and personal domains. Extant scholarship has tended to focus on the identity threats and individual experiences of the challenges involved, but research has not delved into the more relational experiences that may characterize such journeys. In our study, we explore women's experiences of undergoing fertility treatment while working full-time through the lens of vulnerability. Our findings highlight how vulnerability is a socially constructed experience that is privately experienced and typically results in changes to how women interact with others. Our work deepens understanding of the work–fertility interface in illustrating how women respond to vulnerability in three distinct but fluid ways—masking, confronting, or succumbing. In doing so, we also offer new insights into the experience of vulnerability. We emphasize the need for organizations to develop policies that support women in a compassionate and discreet manner, reducing their sense of vulnerability both personally and relationally.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 6","pages":"2205-2219"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.70191","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149083940","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":"Unwelcome Expectancy: How Pregnancy Shapes Employment Opportunities in Mexico","authors":"Sonia M. Frías","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.70192","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Using the simulated client technique, this study examines pregnancy discrimination in hiring processes and shows how pregnancy hinders women's employment opportunities as a combined effect of gender biases and institutional incentives that discourage the hiring of pregnant women. The analysis focuses on recruiters' responses to pregnant and nonpregnant job seekers and reveals that the rejection of pregnant applicants is still explicitly communicated in some cases, whereas in others, it is subtly implicit or veiled. Exclusion is often framed within paternalistic narratives, such as concern for maternal and fetal health. These discourses, while seemingly protective, serve to legitimize exclusion and reproduce gender inequalities. Findings contribute to feminist scholarship on reproductive labor, gendered institutions, and labor market discrimination and suggest that observed penalties may also reflect the effect of institutional arrangements that create financial and organizational incentives to avoid hiring pregnant women. The article highlights the need for public policies to address gender-exclusionary practices rooted in the gendered nature of organizations, stereotypes, and beliefs about pregnant women and the costs of employing them.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 6","pages":"2346-2360"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.70192","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149084089","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":"Navigating Contested Spaces: Gendered Interactions in Everyday Entrepreneuring Among Jua Kali Women in Rural Kenya","authors":"Tabitha Sindani,&nbsp;Cécile Guillaume,&nbsp;Mayra Ruiz-Castro,&nbsp;Carole Elliott","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.70168","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines the daily experiences of <i>Jua Kali</i> women entrepreneurs in Western Kenya, unpacking how gendered power relations are enacted within informal marketplaces and how women entrepreneurs mobilize agency within these structurally and institutionally constrained contexts. Drawing on thirty in-depth interviews and ethnographic observations, this study reveals that <i>Jua Kali</i> women experience gendered control of economic resources and marketplace space through financial exploitation and male dominance, embodied regulation and normalized gendered exclusion through pervasive gender-based violence, and extractive informal governance and gendered state control through harassment, corruption, and chaotic tax enforcement. Despite these structural and interactional constraints, women mobilize a repertoire of agentic responses, from <i>collective solidarity networks</i> and <i>strategic acquiescence</i> to <i>tactful compliance</i> and <i>evasive resistance</i>, to sustain livelihoods in precarious working environments. This study contributes to feminist and critical entrepreneurship scholarship by theorizing entrepreneurial agency as gendered, relational, and materially constrained and by advancing a spatially attentive understanding of entrepreneurship that foregrounds the visualization of spatial configurations and material conditions shaping women's everyday entrepreneurial participation in the informal economy. It also offers important policy implications, calling for gender-responsive, context-specific interventions that address institutional voids and safeguard women's economic participation in the Global South.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 6","pages":"2220-2237"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.70168","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149083967","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":"The Bumpy Road From a Well-Paid Earmarked Parental Leave to Engaged Fatherhood: Externally Driven Reform in a Persistently Gendered Culture","authors":"Anna Kurowska,&nbsp;Katarzyna Suwada","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.70196","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Well-paid, nontransferable parental leave for fathers is intended to promote engaged fatherhood and, in turn, gender equality at work and in the household. Yet the extent to which such entitlements achieve these outcomes depends on the cultural and institutional context in which they are introduced. This study investigates how fathers interpret the uptake and nonuptake of the newly introduced father quota in an unprecedented context: a country with persistently gendered norms, where the reform was externally driven by the EU Work–Life Balance Directive and only weakly supported by implementing authorities. Drawing on 30 semi-structured interviews with Polish fathers of children aged 6–36 months, we show that both nontakers and father quota users position themselves primarily as workers and only secondarily as caring fathers. Although the former argue that they do not need parental leave because they already spend enough time with their children, even while working full-time, father quota users often use the entitlement less for childcare and more to step back from demanding jobs, change employment, travel, or extend family time. Our findings reveal the limits of externally imposed reforms in transforming entrenched gender norms and highlight how formal rights may not only fail to advance gender equality but also risk reinforcing gendered divisions of roles. The study contributes to debates on fatherhood and work by demonstrating how leave policies in gender-traditional contexts can be appropriated in ways that undermine their intended goals, underscoring the need for more comprehensive and radical policy reforms.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 6","pages":"2331-2345"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.70196","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149083999","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":"Sexism and Gender Washing in Academia and Beyond: Reclaiming Equity in Academia Beyond Rhetoric","authors":"Camilla Quental,&nbsp;Guilherme Azevedo,&nbsp;Yuliya Shymko,&nbsp;Natalia Vershinina,&nbsp;Maria Daskalaki","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.70207","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 6","pages":"2139-2143"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149084185","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":"Why Small or Big? Problematizing Emancipation Discourse in Non-Western Women's Entrepreneurship","authors":"Rasha Goumaa,&nbsp;Amon Simba","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.70194","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Research is beginning to query the dominance of Western-influenced perspectives on emancipation. It identifies a significant contextual oversight in the discourse surrounding the emancipation of women in entrepreneurship in non-Western settings. To this end, we employ an integrative literature review to unpack the research practices through which emancipation in women's entrepreneurship is constructed and understood along a macro–micro lens. Our analysis identifies how emancipation is constructed through three intra-acting research practices: portraying women entrepreneurs as victims, framing agency as inherently constrained, and assessing emancipation based on its scale and presumed intentionality. Building on this, we contribute a processual perspective on emancipation which draws upon Karen Barad's agential realist. In a way, we reconceptualize agency and emancipation as phenomena emerging through contextually embedded intra-actions. This perspective facilitates a more nuanced empirical understanding of women's entrepreneurial practices, recognizing their significance for women entrepreneurs in non-Western contexts, with implications for studying emancipation as a process of becoming.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 6","pages":"2276-2290"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.70194","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149084029","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":"Speaking Up and Standing Out: How Gendered Logics Shape Women's Self-Advocacy at Work","authors":"Vedika Lal,&nbsp;Kathleen A. Stephenson,&nbsp;Janneke K. Oostrom,&nbsp;Svetlana N. Khapova,&nbsp;Sergey Gorbatov","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.70201","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A widely held assumption is that women self-advocate less than men. Our study challenges this view. Drawing on interviews with 71 men and women in a multinational company's leadership development pipeline and 10 HRM managers, we examine how women navigate self-advocacy within gendered organizational logics. We theorize self-advocacy as a site of additive labor necessitated by the friction between masculine-coded ideal professional logics and ideal woman logics grounded in societal expectations. Our findings reveal that these frictions manifest in self-advocacy that entails two distinct forms of additive effort: adapted advocacy to recalibrate daily visibility and supplemental advocacy to preemptively verify legitimacy in career-critical moments. This research demonstrates that women are not self-advocating less, but rather are performing significantly more labor to bridge the gap between their proven performance and the assumed potential granted to men. We argue that addressing gender disparities requires shifting the burden away from individual behaviors and toward de-biasing the ideal worker myth and the institutional systems that govern the standard of proof for career advancement.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 6","pages":"2361-2375"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.70201","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149084080","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":"Beyond Heroic Individualism: Cultivating Relational Buffers Against Healthcare System Strain","authors":"Eva Willis,&nbsp;Jamie B. Smith","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.70193","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Nurses endure elevated rates of burnout, moral injury, and suicide. These outcomes are exacerbated by healthcare systems that prioritize individual responsibility, isolating nurses as sole bearers of accountability for systemic failures. This model of responsibility reflects broader patterns in feminized labor, where caregiving is framed as a moral duty rather than a professional practice requiring structural support. This paper critiques individual-centric accountability models and proposes a relational framework to redistribute responsibility across human and nonhuman networks (teams, policies, and technologies), thereby mitigating psychological strain and fostering systemic resilience. This study employs a conceptual analysis approach, drawing on feminist and new materialist philosophies to examine accountability structures in nursing. Using the theories of Guattari's three ecologies (environmental, social, and mental), Haraway's response–ability, Braidotti's affirmative ethics, and Barad's diffraction we critically assess how traditional frameworks of individual responsibility reinforce systemic inequalities and moral distress. By integrating insights from gender studies and organizational research, we explore how responsibility can be reconceptualized as a relational process rather than an isolated punitive mechanism. The methodology is interdisciplinary, engaging theoretical perspectives from sociology, nursing studies, and posthumanist ethics to challenge entrenched notions of responsibility in healthcare systems. Individual blame obscures structural drivers (understaffing, resource shortages) and perpetuates moral distress. With the concept of relational forward-thinking responsibility we rethink accountability as distributed across networks, emphasizing interdependence. Emerging technologies such as AI diagnostics further disrupt individual blame models, necessitating shared accountability among developers, institutions, and practitioners. Shifting from individual accountability to relational, forward-thinking responsibility may reduce burnout, moral distress, and emotional exhaustion by redistributing emotional labor and systemic risk. This framework aligns with posthumanist ethics, prioritizing interdependence across ecological, social, and technological dimensions, while strengthening nurse well-being, retention, and sustainable healthcare provision. Healthcare institutions must adopt organizational reforms: (1) policy: mandate workload equity, staffing reforms, and transparency laws; (2) practice: implement interdisciplinary collaboration, systemic incident audits, and mental health support; and (3) technology: regulate AI accountability, ensuring shared liability between developers and institutions. Such shifts foster resilient care ecosystems, centering nurse well-being and sustainable healthcare delivery.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 6","pages":"2251-2262"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.70193","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149083966","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":"Dual Dynamics of Worktime: Gendered Work–Family Dilemmas of Worktime-as-Investment and Worktime-as-Agreement","authors":"Sigtona Halrynjo,&nbsp;Runa Brandal Myklebust","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.70186","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores the dynamics of worktime and its implications for work–family reconciliation and gender equality. By introducing the concepts of <i>worktime-as-investment</i> in contrast to <i>worktime-as-agreement</i>, we explore how time and availability for work operate in different types of careers and identify the underlying logics upholding or reducing work–family struggles and gender inequality. Drawing on 63 in-depth interviews with Norwegian finance professionals, we expose how the different time dynamics impact the strategies employed to manage work and family life in “portfolio careers” and “employee careers”. Further, we explore how these strategies are differently used by men and women, reinforcing gendered career patterns—and how this plays out in a family-friendly and gender equal welfare state. Theoretically, we contribute to the literature by demonstrating how the dynamic of <i>time-as-investment</i> recreates the ideal worker in the form of the ideal “entreployee,” competing as an individual actor, despite being formally an employee. We show how the logic of family-friendly flexibility presupposes the dynamic of “time-as-agreement” and thus align with employee careers. In contrast, the dynamic of “time-as-investment,” reinforced by the institutionalized individual competition for responsibility and rewards in portfolio careers, upholds the gendered work–family costs, despite access to family-friendly flexibility. Addressing these challenges requires a nuanced understanding of how cultural norms and family policies interact with career structures and time dynamics to shape the lived realities of men and women.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 6","pages":"2238-2250"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.70186","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149083968","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":"Blackening Careers Beyond Barriers: Intersectional Experiences of Black Women in Imperial Careers","authors":"Louise Rodrigues Silva,&nbsp;Caroline Rodrigues Silva,&nbsp;Flavia Naves","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.70198","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article investigates how Black Brazilian women navigate and transform careers in the fields of medicine, law, and engineering, professions historically characterized by elitism, racism, and sexism. Employing intersectionality as a theoretical framework, methodological approach, and activist tool, the study analyses personal narratives to demonstrate how these women confront systemic oppression, develop racial and gender consciousness, and challenge the exclusionary norms within their respective fields. The analysis is guided by three principal dimensions: (1) the awareness of occupying spaces historically denied to them, (2) encounters with elite, White, and male-dominated environments and their associated controlling images, and (3) collective resistance and the redefinition of professional trajectories. The concept of Blackening Careers is introduced to depict how these women resist marginalization and redefine career meanings through social justice efforts and collective action. These findings contribute to feminist and decolonial perspectives on careers within contexts shaped by racialized and colonial legacies.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 6","pages":"2376-2387"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.70198","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149084171","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}