{"title":"“Bossyboots”: Postfeminism and the construction of Australia's “Corporate Woman”","authors":"Claire E. F. Wright","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13174","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.13174","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Improving the representation of women in corporate leadership is a key postfeminist project. Postfeminism—or the integration of women's empowerment and neoliberalism in the decades following the Women's Movement—has shaped the experience of Australian women in corporate leadership roles since the 1990s. As such, while efforts to improve the number of women in leadership have yielded admirable progress, achieving sustainable improvements in corporate diversity requires attending to collective postfeminist scripts. In order to better understand the global and local features of Australian postfeminism, this article analyses “Corporate Woman,” a mainstream newspaper column published regularly by the <i>Australian Financial Review</i> between 1988 and 1998. It finds that similar political and economic systems, and feminist histories, encouraged Australian postfeminism to adopt many core transnational tenets. At the same time, aspects of Australia's national history and identity, including egalitarianism, emphasis on nuclear families, and context of major economic change, contributed to localism in postfeminism's expression. This expands our understanding of postfeminism, and can help empower corporate women by uncovering the collective cognitive maps that have guided policy interventions, and women's lived experiences in corporate leadership roles.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 2","pages":"743-762"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.13174","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142215067","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":"“You are filthy, cursed, and impious”: A story of stigmatization by the loved ones during the coronavirus pandemic","authors":"Rani Musawwer Sultana, Humera Manzoor","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13181","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.13181","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Through writing differently, this article aims to give in-depth insights into the intimate and painful experiences of stigmatization during the coronavirus pandemic. It reveals the extent to which the social stigma attached to coronavirus has proliferated “otherness” even among the family members. The coronavirus was linked to filthiness, impiety, and a curse, which led to heart wrenching gossips, social rejections, and exclusions both within the family and beyond. This study contributes to our cultural understanding of social stigma associated with the coronavirus, the “otherness” it has created among the family, and the way it has affected one's psychological health and wellbeing through alternative writing.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 2","pages":"731-742"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141920719","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":"Beauty is political!","authors":"Mariana Luísa da Costa Lage","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13173","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.13173","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Digital collage produced using the free software Photopea (Online Photo Editor) with free images from the Unsplash website to represent the experience I observed from a study that sought to identify the organizing process in a Black Collective, which articulates embodied political practices. It was <i>Coletivo Encrespa</i>, a social movement that values the use of curly/kinky hair, based in the city of Governador Valadares, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 2","pages":"727-730"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141928453","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}
Bronwyn P. Wood, Natalia Vershinina, Bettina Lynda Bastian
{"title":"Moving forward with Gender, Work and Organization","authors":"Bronwyn P. Wood, Natalia Vershinina, Bettina Lynda Bastian","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13180","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.13180","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"31 6","pages":"2305-2308"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.13180","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141935073","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}
Lydia Huerta Moreno, Sarah Jane Blithe, Gregory da Silva Balthazar
{"title":"The impacts of anti-genderism on education in Brazil: Fear and danger among professors of gender","authors":"Lydia Huerta Moreno, Sarah Jane Blithe, Gregory da Silva Balthazar","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13175","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.13175","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines the influence of right-wing political ideologies on the lives and experiences of university professors who teach about women and gender in their respective disciplines throughout Brazil. Drawing from qualitative interviews with professors in different regions of Brazil we argue that the embrace of anti-gender ideologies by the Bolsonaro administration has had a negative impact on university educators by restricting resources, increased surveillance, threats, and attacks.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 2","pages":"710-726"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.13175","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141934985","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}
Michelle O’Shea, Victoria Paraschak, Sonya Pearce, Hazel Maxwell, Alison Pullen
{"title":"Everyday activism and “actionable” hope as tempered radicals","authors":"Michelle O’Shea, Victoria Paraschak, Sonya Pearce, Hazel Maxwell, Alison Pullen","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13176","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.13176","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper takes its departure from Rebecca Solnit's idea that there should be “hope in darkness” as we work towards a shared preferred future that resists gendered and racial inequities and oppressions. We put forward “actionable” hope which embodies hope as an everyday action, an activism enacted by “tempered radicals” (Meyerson & Scully, 1995). This thinking about the relationship between hope and activism emerged through our coming together and was bound by our learning and privileging of Indigenous knowledges and a strengths and hope perspective. The paper is presented in the form and style of polyphonic writing conveying the openness and generosity of spirit that the strengths and hope perspective carries for tempered radicals. Our “insider” and “outsider” positionings unfold as we engage in unsettling discussions of “privilege.” Our practices give recognition to being sensitive to issues of belonging, care, and collective hope, while working towards transformative social change that addresses systemic inequalities. Belonging is seen as essential for collective everyday activism which requires affective actional hope for realizing shared preferred futures.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 2","pages":"692-709"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.13176","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141881376","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":"Responses of workers' organizations to the COVID-19 crisis: Intersectional approaches of domestic workers in Mexico","authors":"Fernanda Teixeira","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13178","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.13178","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly impacted the paid domestic work sector in the global South, exacerbating long-standing inequalities experienced by domestic workers. This article explores how domestic workers' organizations (DWOs) mobilized to support this marginalized workforce during the crisis. Adopting an intersectional perspective, the study shows that DWOs in Mexico strategically used their intersecting identities as working-class women from ethnic minorities to garner support from civil society organizations aligned with their cause. These efforts proved essential in addressing the immediate needs of domestic workers and challenging inequalities in the face of inadequate support from national and local authorities. DWOs played a crucial role in raising awareness, providing services, and shaping public policy to promote decent work in the sector. The article contributes to the body of research on domestic work by illuminating DWOs' intersectional approaches to confronting oppression and marginalization during the crisis. This has wider implications for understanding other sectors characterized by inequality, particularly where marginalized women form a significant part of the workforce.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 2","pages":"673-691"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.13178","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141881381","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}
Jolanta Maj, Aneta Hamza-Orlinska, Inessa Sytnik, Artem Stopochkin, Mustafa Özbilgin
{"title":"Misrecognition and labor market inclusion of refugee mothers","authors":"Jolanta Maj, Aneta Hamza-Orlinska, Inessa Sytnik, Artem Stopochkin, Mustafa Özbilgin","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13179","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.13179","url":null,"abstract":"<p>185,000 refugees from Ukraine have started working in Poland since the Russian war began. Drawing on Bourdieusian concepts of capitals, misrecognition, habitus, and the field, the paper theorizes the subjective and objective terms of inclusion across intersectional interplay of motherhood, ethnicity, and refugee status. In particular, we explore how intersectional marginalized identities of individuals shape their negotiation power over terms of their labor market inclusion. Using qualitative interview data from 10 Ukrainian working mothers in Poland who became refugees following the Russian war in Ukraine in 2022, we demonstrate that misrecognition leads to uneven relations of power curtailing working refugee mothers' agency to negotiate the terms of their inclusion.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 2","pages":"653-672"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141866817","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":"Going loca: Depression at work as a public feeling in Peru","authors":"Riya Bisht, Kathleen Riach","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13170","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.13170","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this article, we invite the reader to join us in developing a culturally situated understanding of mental health at work in the Global South. Basing our analysis within the context of Peru, we situate depression as a feminist-inspired “Public Feelings project,” whereby embodied experiences such as depression are inseparable from historical, social, and political structures of oppression (Cvetkovich, 2007). Through methodologically engaging in a mode of Nguyen et al.’s (2016) epistemic friendship, we explore the experiences of 12 Peruvian working women who self-identify as having depression. Using interviews and arts-based methods; specifically, Peruvian-inspired portraiture, as a potential well for hope, healing, and humanity, we consider the narratives, experiences, feelings, and other embodied forms of knowing around depression and work in Peru. Working with the in vivo concept of “being loco,” we develop two art-works presenting in dialogue with findings that explore the potential of how a Public Feelings lens might open up theoretical and methodological vistas for exploring in situ health experiences as constituted in particular geohistorical and gendered landscapes.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 2","pages":"634-652"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.13170","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141775127","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}
Yseult Freeney, Lisa van der Werff, Danna Greenberg, Teresa Hayden, Vera Costello, Alison Coleman
{"title":"More than “just a mom”: Identity distancing and reactivation during re-entry transitions","authors":"Yseult Freeney, Lisa van der Werff, Danna Greenberg, Teresa Hayden, Vera Costello, Alison Coleman","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13172","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.13172","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Re-entering the workforce after a career interruption is a common work/family transition for women with caregiving responsibilities. Despite the frequency of these transitions over women's careers, extant scholarship has tended to be descriptive of the motives and barriers behind these transitions and has not built a more theoretically-informed understanding of re-entry transitions. In this study, we draw upon identity theory to explore women's subjective experiences of re-entry transitions as we examine how women's identities evolve from being “just a mom” to a (re)activation of their work identity. Our findings highlight how, through a combination of psychological and relational mechanisms, women distance themselves from their stay-at-home identity and begin to reactivate a dormant or lingering work identity. Our work contributes to understanding of work/family transitions and identity theory as we theorize how this transition occurs and the mechanisms that support this identity transition process. We also call for changes in the practices of organizations and government agencies to better support this identity reactivation through improvements in processes related to supporting women in preparing for re-entry following a career break and recruitment of women at this important transition point.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 2","pages":"610-633"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.13172","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141785292","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}