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{"title":"Not “Cut Out” For the Field: An Analysis of Women Navigating Gendered Boundaries in STEM Education","authors":"Zora Haque,&nbsp;Manning Zhang,&nbsp;Marji Erickson Warfield,&nbsp;Tatjana Meschede","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.70189","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Gender inequities in access and promotions in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education and careers pose challenges for women to persist and excel in the field. However, limited scholarship examines how women's STEM pathways are shaped by informal and formal STEM education in the K–12 period. Drawing upon focus group interviews featuring 42 women who have engaged in extracurricular STEM activities, this paper examines how STEM boundaries are shaped in school and after-school STEM education and how women interact with gendered STEM boundaries by conforming, resisting, and seeking changes to them. Our study reveals that STEM acts as a gendered boundary object, where formal and informal boundaries systematically exclude women by creating barriers to their entry, persistence, and equitable benefit-sharing in the STEM field. Women's narratives highlight the dynamic, evolving nature of their interactions with these boundaries, influenced by gendered knowledge and multiple agents including mentors, teachers, and peers. Drawing upon feminist institutionalism and sociological boundary theories while focusing on K–12 educational institutions, this paper proposes a conceptual framework that reinterprets STEM as a gendered boundary object and demonstrates how its boundaries are actively constructed and policed through everyday interactions. In doing so, we invite future scholarship to interrogate and reimagine the structural and cultural boundaries of STEM in order to foster greater inclusion and equity for women.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 6","pages":"2171-2184"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.70189","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149084179","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":"Gender, Labor, and Everyday Life in Dried Fish Production: Treading Three “Paths” in the Indian Sundarbans","authors":"Raktima Ghosh,&nbsp;Jenia Mukherjee,&nbsp;Amrita Sen","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.70188","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study explores a gendered dimension of labor in enmeshed household and subsistence work of women in dried fish production in the Indian Sundarbans. It follows three groups—fish processors, <i>hajira</i>, and traders representing three crisscrossing “paths” of women fishworkers in dried fish economy, to note their distinctive experiences of labor and how it is organized through repetitive, routinized, and simultaneous tasks across space and time. Drawing on a feminist political economy perspective, the study connects women's everyday activities to entrenched power asymmetries and ongoing economic changes, to trace specific institutional and ideological conditions under which women's “total labor” manifests. Conceptually, the study contributes to feminist political economy by foregrounding what constitutes women's “spacetime” and how it is navigated, enacted and negotiated in the lesser-known world of dried fish production. It argues that women's labor cannot be understood solely through wage relations or domestic work, but must be situated within the wider socio-economic processes shaping their everyday lives. It concludes by making the case for emancipatory policies that address on-the-ground gendered inequalities and recognize women as central actors in the social economy of dried fish.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 6","pages":"2291-2305"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149084165","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":"Debt as Maternal Emotional Work: Financialized Caregiving in Nairobi's Digital Credit Economy","authors":"Simani Lucy Wamalwa","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.70195","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper examines how women's caregiving responsibilities are sustained through digital credit in Nairobi's informal settlements, reframing borrowing as unpaid emotional work. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 30 women mobile-credit users, the study shows that borrowing and repayment are embedded in practices of care and moral obligation, including managing hunger, schooling, and socially visible moments of inclusion. In this context, borrowing emerges as a response to caregiving crises rather than a calculated economic choice. Repayment is experienced as embodied work marked by exhaustion, anxiety, and sacrifice, whereas opaque algorithmic decisions generate mistrust that women must manage. These dynamics form a recursive maternal debt–care nexus: Strain triggers borrowing, borrowing restores moral order, repayment demands bodily effort, and emotional containment sustains continued participation. By positioning emotional work as the mechanism through which digital credit becomes workable in household life, the paper extends emotional work theory beyond organizational settings and shows how digital finance relies on gendered obligations of care. Financial inclusion thus operates by reallocating the burden of care onto women through debt, positioning emotional work as the hidden infrastructure that sustains digital finance in conditions of precarity.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 6","pages":"2306-2318"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149084166","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":"Sense and Action: Career Disruptions During the Menopause Transition","authors":"Tatiana S. Rowson,&nbsp;Sahar Omary-Barghouthi","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.70197","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This narrative study explores how women make sense of career disruptions during the menopause transition. Drawing on biographical narrative interviews with 30 professional and executive women, we examine how biological symptoms, social cues of gendered ageism, and psychological dimensions of midlife shape women's interpretations of career disruption during this life stage. Our analysis identifies four sensemaking trajectories—early awareness, delayed recognition, encountering ageism, and midlife redirection—reflecting the main trigger of career deliberations and the temporal dynamics of noticing, interpreting, and acting. Across these pathways, many women made career changes before fully understanding the source of the disruption, often constructing coherence retrospectively. We argue that ambiguous, fragmented experiences during the menopause transition can operate as a career shock and that the sensemaking process is shaped by the epistemic resources available to women. This study contributes to menopause and work research by showing that career outcomes vary depending on when deliberate sensemaking is triggered and what interpretive frames support it. We extend sensemaking theory by demonstrating that absent or distorted epistemic resources can cause career deliberations to precede understanding. We also position fragmented, ambiguous disruptions as a theoretically distinct category within career shock literature.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 6","pages":"2319-2330"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.70197","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149084167","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":"“Feminist Suffering” and “Aftermath Solidarity”: Repairing Female Solidarity in the Wake of a Friendship's Fall","authors":"Daniela Aliberti","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.70182","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In my experience, the end of a female friendship came to symbolically represent the erosion of female solidarity as (I thought) I knew it. In this paper, I first present an evocative autoethnographic narrative that foregrounds the emotional toll of losing solidarity with a close childhood friend. This is followed by a theoretical discussion that interweaves my own feminist reflections with those emerging from conversations with an intimate public of women. Through this highly reflexive feminist approach, I conceptualize “feminist suffering” as a critical lens for understanding how women's relationships can shift from supportive alliances to rivalry or superficiality under the interplay of multiple systemic pressures. In response to it, through and thanks to the conversations with an intimate public of women, I introduce the notion of “aftermath solidarity”: A revived affective form of solidarity that re-emerges from the erosion of intimate female bonds as a mode of dialogic feminist resistance and repair.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 6","pages":"2144-2157"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.70182","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149083953","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 Master Narrative of Prioritized Parenthood: Bifurcated Identities and Doxastic Damage in the Postpandemic Workplace","authors":"Cristin A. Compton,&nbsp;Jaclyn K. Brandhorst,&nbsp;Keira Solon","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.70166","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Women's work experiences during COVID-19 illuminated or exacerbated existing organizational divides between mothers and childfree employees as presumptions related to time management, differences in access to resources, and implicit organizational expectations became more visible. Using the lens of master narratives, we explore how women's parental or childfree status affected their perception of their relationship to work post-COVID-19. Using semi-structured interviews with 21 women who worked throughout COVID-19 and beyond, we argue a master narrative of prioritized parenthood influenced participants' work experience, serving as both an organizational and social barrier to women and childfree employees alike. Participant stories reveal how the bifurcation of their status as “parent” or “child-free” functions as a form of organizational violence, structuring behavioral expectations and (de)legitimizing some identities over others. The authors note that participants communicated a desire for employee-defined flexibility for women in the workplace, regardless of parental status.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 6","pages":"2263-2275"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.70166","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149084028","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":"An Exploration of Being Childfree at Work: Challenges and Opportunities","authors":"Sophie Hennekam,&nbsp;Laura Radcliffe,&nbsp;Danna Greenberg","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.70199","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Workers without children represent a growing yet persistently overlooked population in contemporary workplaces. This introductory article to the Special Issue on childfree workers establishes the conceptual rationale for this collection, arguing that the dominant work-family paradigm has marginalized the experiences of those without children by conflating ‘work-family’ with ‘work-life’. We adopt the term childfree to resist deficit framings, while acknowledging important distinctions between voluntary and involuntary childlessness alongside the intersecting influences of gender, race, sexuality, and class. Drawing on demographic trends, particularly across Western contexts, we highlight the urgency of enhanced theoretical and empirical attention to this population. We introduce and synthesize four empirical and conceptual paper contributions that comprise this Special Issue, addressing infertility, pregnancy loss, voluntary childfreeness, and prospective motherhood penalties, collectively demonstrating that childfree experiences are shaped by intersecting systems of moral normativity, organizational pronatalist assumptions, and structural inequality. We conclude by outlining key directions for future research and offering practical guidance for organizations seeking to foster more equitable and inclusive workplaces across diverse life circumstances.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 6","pages":"2133-2138"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149083921","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":"A Non-Linear Assessment of the Relationship Between Board Gender Diversity and Firm Performance: Cross-Country Evidence","authors":"Neji Al-Eid Omri,&nbsp;Hassan Guenichi,&nbsp;Abdulhameed Mohanna Alfaleh","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.70184","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Our study seeks to contribute to the literature by analyzing the effects of board gender diversity (BGD) on firm performance in the UNITED KINGDOM, Germany, France, Italy and Spain by supposing the nonlinearity of this nexus. Also, we aim to determine the thresholds above which BGD exerts a positive impact on firm performance. To achieve this main goal, we employ the Panel Smooth Transition Regression (PSTR) model. The results indicate a single estimated threshold for BGD, suggesting that the effects of women's presence on the board on corporate performance exhibit a nonlinear increase. For Return on Assets (ROA), a threshold is observed at 14.1% women on the board, suggesting that once this proportion is met, the presence of women directors begins to have a more pronounced positive effect on ROA. Similarly, for Tobin's <i>Q</i>, the model identifies a threshold at 15.4% women directors, beyond which their positive influence on performance increases significantly. Below these thresholds, there is a weak or neutral relationship. The results are robust to the change of performance proxies being used and render support for <i>critical mass theory</i> that a minimum level of gender diversity on the board is a prerequisite for BGD to yield positive performance effects. Our findings underscore the significance of gender diversity in the boardroom in enhancing corporate financial performance. Additionally, our investigation highlights the importance of the threshold concept in explaining the divergence in theoretical outcomes toward the sign of impacts between board gender diversity and firm performance. While further analysis is needed for policy implementation, our findings suggest that achieving a critical mass of women on boards is essential to unlock the benefits of gender diversity. Policymakers may consider context-appropriate strategies—such as mandatory quotas in low-representation environments or voluntary targets and disclosure-based incentives in more gender-progressive settings—to promote balanced board composition.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 6","pages":"2185-2204"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149084054","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":"More Than a Shade: Colorism, Foreignness, and the Intersections of Race and Gender in UK Higher Education","authors":"Abigal Muchecheti","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.70173","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper critically examines how colorism, foreignness, race, and gender intersect to shape the experiences of Black women and racially minoritized women in nonacademic roles within UK higher education. Although prior scholarship has examined race and gender in academia, limited attention has been paid to how institutional exclusion operates through skin tone hierarchies and perceived foreignness within professional services contexts. Drawing on 28 in-depth qualitative interviews across seven UK universities, the study analyzes how intersecting marginalizations shape career progression, identity negotiation, and institutional belonging. Findings show that lighter-skinned and mixed-Black heritage women often experience conditional forms of inclusion, whereas darker-skinned women face intensified scrutiny, surveillance, and exclusion. Foreignness, frequently racialized through accent, voice, and behavioral expectations, emerges as an organizational mechanism regulating perceived insider status. By conceptualizing colorism and foreignness as institutional logics embedded within higher education workplaces, the paper contributes to intersectionality and organizational inequality scholarship, advancing the understanding of how stratified forms of racialization structure professional recognition and advancement.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 6","pages":"2158-2170"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149084180","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":"Reimagining Trust as Feminist Praxis: A Transnational Analysis of Gender and Public Confidence in Women's Organizations","authors":"Ruby Amanda Oboro-Offerie","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.70153","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines trust in women's organizations as a gendered and contextually embedded dimension of institutional trust, drawing on data from 90,192 respondents across 60 countries using the 2017–2022 World Values Survey, the World Bank, and Varieties of Democracy. Employing linear multilevel mixed-effects models, the analysis conceptualizes trust in women's organizations as a form of feminist praxis and as a socially situated evaluation shaped by universalized assumptions about women's shared interests, experiences, and gender inequalities. The findings show that women express significantly higher trust in women's organizations than men, although the magnitude of this difference is small and varies across countries. Integrating critical transnational feminist theory with cross-national quantitative analysis, the study contributes to debates on institutional trust and transnational feminism by demonstrating how transnational feminist mobilizing norms circulate globally yet are unevenly recognized and institutionalized across geopolitical contexts. Methodologically, this paper advances a decolonial and inclusive feminist approach to quantitative analysis by mobilizing multilevel modeling to center geospatial variation in women's organizing and empirically demonstrate how the politics of difference in feminism shape trust in women's organizations, thereby challenging Global North, Eurocentric, and universalist assumptions through which White feminism has historically reproduced hierarchy and the limits of solidarity.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 5","pages":"1760-1777"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.70153","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148652517","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}