Mayra Ruiz-Castro, Marc Grau-Grau, Ioana Lupu, Maria Daskalaki, Kathleen L. McGinn
{"title":"Social reproduction: Households, public policies, and alternative organizing","authors":"Mayra Ruiz-Castro, Marc Grau-Grau, Ioana Lupu, Maria Daskalaki, Kathleen L. McGinn","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13128","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.13128","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This special issue (SI) contributes to a growing body of work in management and organization studies focusing on the complex relationship between social reproduction and inequalities in paid work and organizations. In this introduction to the SI, we first identify three key areas of inquiry relevant to the study of social reproduction: challenging the boundaries of productive and reproductive labor; inequalities and exploitation; and alternative organizing. We then present the seven papers of the SI that draw on research from Australia, South America, Spain, Turkey, the UK, and the US to contribute to the aforementioned areas, foregrounding distinctive social reproduction dynamics manifesting in the household and alternative organizations (cooperatives), and facilitated by state policies. Based on these contributions, we propose an agenda for future research on social reproduction that aims to address the persistence and potential transformation of the existing gender, class, and race orders. We call for future studies exploring changing parenthood roles and how these affect the organization of re/production tasks; for research revealing and investigating underlying inequalities (re)produced by public policy; for analyses of existing and potential forms of feminist alternative organizing, and how these are sometimes hindered by heteropatriarchal structures; and for the study of social reproduction dynamics across cultural, socioeconomic, and political contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"31 4","pages":"1182-1195"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140938976","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}
Angela Owens-Schill, Amanda Peticca-Harris, Sara R. S. T. A. Elias, Nadia deGama
{"title":"I am because I have to be: Exploring one mother-worker's identity of the surrendered self through stories of mothering neurodiverse children","authors":"Angela Owens-Schill, Amanda Peticca-Harris, Sara R. S. T. A. Elias, Nadia deGama","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13139","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.13139","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Our qualitative study delves into the life history of a mother-worker caring for two neurodiverse children, surfacing how the intensive mental load of balancing domestic and professional responsibilities permeates and shapes her identity. Employing narrative analysis and photovoice methods, we investigate how she navigates the logistical and emotional complexities in both roles across three distinct storytelling events: <i>storying (mis)diagnoses</i>, <i>storying care needs and work negotiations</i>, and <i>storying coping</i>. Our primary contribution lies in introducing the concept of the surrendered self, signaling the amplified and prolonged embodiment of one's provisional identity (mother) based on socio-cultural expectations of who she thinks she ought to be, leading to the eclipse of other possible identities (woman, wife, worker).</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 1","pages":"161-180"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140995013","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":"‘Who is the ideal woman?’: The subjectification of impoverished Javanese working mothers","authors":"Carmelita Euline Ginting-Carlström","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13140","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.13140","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examines the subjectification of working mothers through the lens of intersectionality by listening to the under-represented voices of those whose lives are shaped at the intersections of gender, poverty, Islam, and Javanese ethnicity. Drawing on poststructuralist feminist discourse analysis, the subtle subjectification process is observed through conversational interactions in which working mothers construct the ‘ideal woman’. The findings challenge the predominant postfeminist framing in the extant literature by illustrating how here working mothers draw on a specifically local discourse (i.e., moderate-Islam and Javanese cultural discourses) to construct the ideal woman as embodying the dual wife-mother identities. Based on these locally dependent discourses, working mothers accentuate their identity as wives while subduing identities as mothers and workers. The emphasis on the underexplored wife identity imbues work with a distinct significance for mothers within this context.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 1","pages":"136-160"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.13140","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140938975","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 “truth” will not set you free, but this book might: A review of believability: Sexual violence, media, and the politics of doubt. By Sarah Banet-Weiser, Kathryn Claire Higgins, Cambridge: Polity Press. 2023. pp. 256. ISBN: 978-1-509-55382-2","authors":"Melody House","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13143","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.13143","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 1","pages":"132-135"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140839465","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":"Menopause, work and mid-life: Challenging the ideal worker stereotype","authors":"Belinda Steffan, Wendy Loretto","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13136","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.13136","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article investigates how the complexity of life domains of menopause-aged women creates a paradox of simultaneously challenging the ideal worker stereotype while being caught within it. The empirical setting of menopause at work acts to highlight how work, life, and health pressures are entangled in how women present themselves at work, through varying organizational and societal expectations of being ‘fit for work’. We draw on 80 semi-structured, life-course interviews of women over 50 working in four occupational settings: social care, manufacturing, finance, and self-employed. Findings are presented through three empirical vignettes, providing unique insight into how ideal worker expectations perpetuate or challenge the persistent silencing of ‘being’ menopausal at work, reinforced by life domain experiences relevant to mid-life. We present a theoretical contribution to ideal worker theory by highlighting that women who redefine the ideal worker stereotype might be less vulnerable to gendered ageist workplace cultures. We provide a practical contribution for how organizations can better support this generation and future generations of mid-life women at work.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 1","pages":"116-131"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.13136","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140839460","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":"Shifting boundaries, dismantling brick walls: Feminist knowledge in the struggles to transform economic thinking and policy","authors":"Emma Lamberg","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13135","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.13135","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article contributes to ongoing debates on the politics of feminist knowledge transfer by considering how feminist professionals advocate transformative economic thinking and policies. I draw on interviews with an under-researched group—feminist professionals with specialized knowledge about the economy—to argue that feminist economic experts' transformative politics is shaped by highly contextual efforts to lend credibility to feminist alternatives to conventional economic knowledge and policy. Combining feminist scholarship on scientific boundary-work with theorizing on resistance to feminist institutional transformation, the article analyzes the practices that feminist experts use to reframe their knowledge claims to get their messages through to decision-makers. I suggest that although feminist boundary-work is likely to come up against ‘brick walls’ of institutional resistance, it can dismantle such walls by gradually shifting the boundaries of legitimate economic knowledge and policies.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 1","pages":"100-115"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.13135","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140839494","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":"Resisting sexisms, aggression, and burnout in academic leadership: Surviving in the gendered managerial academy","authors":"Kathryn Haynes","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13137","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.13137","url":null,"abstract":"<p>How is it possible to survive as a woman senior leader in the gendered managerial academy? In this autoethnographical article, I illustrate the lived reality, insecurity, and struggle of academic leadership. Drawing from three vignettes, I discuss decision-making processes, blatant sexist aggressions, and the problematic negation of affect and personal life. Their critical contribution is to expose the consequences of gendered managerialism in the neo-liberal academy and the false promise of ‘leadership’, in which women continue to experience gender challenges, sexism, and the risk of burnout in their everyday experiences. However, I also show how it is possible to counter the detrimental effects of gendered managerialism through four forms of resistance: resistance through embodied affective authenticity; resistance through solidarities, and social relations with others; resistance through feminist activism; and resistance by stepping back.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"31 5","pages":"2286-2302"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.13137","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140839345","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}
Thomas Burø, Jannick Friis Christensen, Linea Munk Petersen
{"title":"A safe space in a strange place: A case study of the safety mechanisms of CrossFit culture","authors":"Thomas Burø, Jannick Friis Christensen, Linea Munk Petersen","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13134","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.13134","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Based on a 1-year ethnographic case study of a Copenhagen-based CrossFit gym we demonstrate how an organized training place is made physically, psychologically, and socially safe. This we show empirically by analyzing how the local multi-sited CrossFit gym ‘CHALK’ maintains its safe space through three organizing mechanisms: (1) coach-led learning progression and practice of the physical craft of CrossFit exercise, intended to prevent injury; (2) a dynamic relation between ‘Rx’ and ’scaling’, that is, setting universal standards for an exercise (Rx) and adjusting to individual levels of competence (scaling), actively preventing the high intensity workout from becoming high risk and from setting idealized norms that only few can live up to, but feel compelled to pursue nonetheless; (3) an egalitarian culture whose practice enables members to participate regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, socio-economic class, sexual orientation, and prior exercise experience. Our ethnomethodological approach further allows us to discuss how certain signifiers of difference are recognized but either do not become salient or do not matter in respect to the functional training. Rather, we find and argue for the possibility to engage in ‘tomboy-ish behavior’ that challenges gender and other identity performances in CHALK. In identifying necessary and sufficient conditions for establishing safe space, the article contributes to extant literature, showing how safe space can emerge as an effect of everyday practice, in contrast to being intentional and declared.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 1","pages":"75-99"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.13134","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140655490","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":"Strangers in conversation: Judith Butler with gender, work and organization","authors":"Melissa Tyler, Judith Butler, Leanne Cutcher, Talila Milroy, Moya Lloyd, Kathleen Riach, Kate Kenny, Ismael Al-Amoudi, Bontu Lucie Guschke, Nancy Harding, Nela Smolović-Jones","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13133","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.13133","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"31 4","pages":"1444-1462"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140661291","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}
Stephanie Erwin, Brandy Jenner, Megan J. Hennessey, Brett Weigle
{"title":"Gendered experiences in professional military education: Implications for diversity, equity, and inclusion","authors":"Stephanie Erwin, Brandy Jenner, Megan J. Hennessey, Brett Weigle","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13131","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.13131","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This multi-year, cross-sectional qualitative study investigates gendered experiences of students and faculty at one master's degree-granting military education institution in the United States. Findings from a grounded theory exploration into institutional climate using focus groups and classroom observations include themes of underrepresentation, tokenization, and dismissal during class conversations, and mischaracterization of diversity of thought. The studied institution responded to these findings by adopting a new gender-blind class assignment process for students. The authors examined the resultant changes in the learning environment with regards to gender representation in classrooms that had zero, one, two, or three women. A next round of findings reflects students' conformance to gender norms, the prevalence of gatekeeping in class discussion, and the creation of affinity groups as a coping mechanism for underrepresented students. Findings also indicate the burden of intersectional representation falls disproportionately on women students; 73% of women students reflected two or more underrepresented-group identities compared to just 7% of men students. Encompassing 114 h of classroom observations and 47 interviews with faculty and students, this research represents a rigorous and unprecedented cross-sectional empirical inquiry into gendered experiences of a master's degree-granting professional learning environment and has implications for scholars and practitioners working in male-dominated organizations.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 1","pages":"55-74"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140623314","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}