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{"title":"Not Ready yet: Why Accelerators May Not Close the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship as Expected","authors":"Lakni Galmangodage,&nbsp;Ai Yu,&nbsp;Laura Costanzo","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13238","url":null,"abstract":"<p>While existing research shows that accelerators play an important role in closing the gender gap in entrepreneurship, our study aims to critically assess the role of accelerators in relation to gender-related structural inequalities, rather than individual-level barriers, that women entrepreneurs face in the neoliberal entrepreneurial ecosystem. Drawing on Butler's (1990) work on gender performativity in which performativity is understood as citational practices, we examine the everyday discourses of six highly regarded Swedish accelerators on the entrepreneurial projects they support and the entrepreneurs they work with. Our Critical Discourse Analysis indicates that even in countries where gender equality policies are promoted, such as Sweden, accelerators' communicative acts “cite” and “reiterate” the gender and cultural norms of the Swedish entrepreneurial system, which is characterized by long-standing disparities in gender-based sectoral segregation and rooted in a strong individualistic culture under the influence of neoliberal policies and practices. In doing so, we question the readiness of accelerators to facilitate women entrepreneurship and suggest that they should instead work with key stakeholders, including feminist activists and policymakers, to confront and mediate systemic and structural gender inequalities.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 4","pages":"1432-1456"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.13238","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144256226","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":"“I know I'm not going to have to heal from this”: Women university workers' collective writing on “office housework” as a space for building collective care, healing, and hope","authors":"Uracha Chatrakul Na Ayudhya,&nbsp;Aylin Kunter,&nbsp;Kayleigh Woods Harley,&nbsp;Isobel Edwards,&nbsp;Sarah Molyneaux,&nbsp;Holly Nicholas,&nbsp;Isabelle Habib,&nbsp;Janet Sheath","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13211","url":null,"abstract":"<p>How can we, as women university workers, assert collective writing as a form of resistance to embody our collective and individual struggles and convert them into words? We are a collective of five professional service and three academic women workers who came together to answer this question through writing about our performance of office housework and the gendered invisibility we experienced. We share our collective writing practices as a methodology to create connections and healing between workers divided along neoliberal and patriarchal university structures. Our work offers feminist epistemic resistance through the intentional joining of women university workers as co-producers of knowledge, following the tradition of feminist consciousness-raising groups. Our analysis problematizes the individualization of office housework. It illustrates how saying “no” individualistically is often elusive, because doing so displaces the work onto colleagues with less structural power; nor enough if we are to advance the goal of collectively reimagining how this crucial, yet invisible work can be redistributed more equally amongst all workers. Our collective writing affirms the need for office housework to be recognized and revalued as important and indispensable work that sustains the functioning of our higher education institutions, especially in times of uncertainty and crisis.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 3","pages":"1366-1384"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.13211","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143831225","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":"Work, affection, and moral economy among Albanian domestic workers in Greece","authors":"Armela Xhaho,&nbsp;Erka Çaro,&nbsp;Ajay Bailey","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13203","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The moral economy framework sheds light on how economic activities and workplace practices are influenced and structured by moral sentiments, norms, and social relations. The concept of the moral economy is particularly applicable to domestic laboring spheres, where employee-employer exchanges and relations are not merely contractual, but are embedded in moral and cultural values. This article builds on moral economy theory to analyze informal relations and workplace practices among 19 Albanian domestic workers in Greece and their employers. The study reveals how social and economic relations are constructed and shaped through the emotional and intimate nature of domestic work, as well as through moral/ethical sentiments, norms, and behaviors. The everyday working practices and emotional attachments between the employers and the employees seemed to reproduce, construct, and rebuild home-like settings, kin relations, and feelings. While such emotional affection impacted some women positively, other women considered it a burden because of their inability to claim their rights.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 3","pages":"1289-1306"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.13203","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143831286","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":"Joyful encounters: Dance, touch, and embodied ethics in times of COVID-19","authors":"Sara Biglieri","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13210","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores the practice of Contact Improvisation during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on how dance serves as a means of repair. Drawing on Erin Manning's posthumanist philosophy, woven into both the theoretical and embodied practice of dance, it envisions touch as a social-relational bond capable of opening pathways to affective intensities, particularly the experience of joy. Employing and experimenting with affective ethnography, I explore the ethico-political aspects of touch, extending ongoing discussions of ethics as deeply embodied. Specifically, I show how this exploration could lead to theorizing an “embodied ethic of repair”, enabling future-oriented response-ability and reclaiming joy as an affective force for navigating forthcoming bio-political, social, and environmental challenges in and for organizations.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 3","pages":"1349-1365"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143831136","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":"Entrepreneurship and gender: An appreciation of studies in Brazil","authors":"Hilka Pelizza Vier Machado","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13208","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study analyzes the set of Brazilian scientific production in the themes Entrepreneurship and Gender associate to highlight the gender perspectives in these publications. A semi-systematic literature review was carried out, according to the studies published until the year 2022, in the databases Spell, Scielo, and in the following scientific journals: International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, Gender in Management, and Gender, Work and Organization. We selected 102 articles for reading. The studies were classified into five themes: (a) the impact of entrepreneurship on a woman's personal life; (b) aspects associated with management and entrepreneurship; (c) socialization and context; (d) gender and intersectionality; and (e) evaluation of the field of studies. An agenda for future studies is suggested. This research encourages Brazilian researchers to develop new studies and insights on the subject. In addition, it presents elements to guide policies and provide financial support to research aimed at understanding entrepreneurship and gender.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 3","pages":"1307-1328"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143831283","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":"Stained glass ceilings: Gender and race in accounting academia in Brazil","authors":"Sandra Maria Cerqueira da Silva,&nbsp;Silvia Pereira de Castro Casa Nova","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13201","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Brazil is divided into five large regions marked by profound economic and social inequalities. Such vast differences can make people feel like “foreigners”, even though they live in the same country. Here, meritocracy is seen as the criterion for assessing and promoting people, which is conflicting given the absurdly unequal contexts in the country. This choice widens inequalities of gender, race and, above all, social class. Between 2000 and 2018, Brazil experienced profound social transformations. Female participation in the labor market grew, although there were still barriers to access and professional advancement for women, which were exacerbated in the case of black women. When it came to leadership positions, they were almost always blocked by processes which depended on subjective decisions from evaluators. These circumstances occur through daily confrontations with processes of sexualisation and racialisation. These transformations were followed in the most recent period by clear setbacks, deepened by the COVID-19 pandemic and intense political polarization. A milestone in terms of <i>Esperançar</i>, a verb proposed by Paulo Freire (1992), were the 2022 presidential elections, understood as a process of re-democratisation. The social achievements that have been maintained, however, are ‘advances’ that work differently when the diversity of the population and regional differences are taken into account. With this particular context in mind, the aim of this study is to investigate how the “glass ceiling” phenomenon has been present in the daily interactions and academic trajectory of black women in the accounting field. The question that underpinned this study was: how can the academic accounting environment, considering practice and discourse, boost or hinder the “glass ceiling” phenomenon in the professional career of black female academics? This is a qualitative study with a post-structuralist approach, based on the adoption of auto-ethnographic and oral history techniques. The evidence was built up through semi-structured, in-depth interviews with female academics who had graduated from postgraduate programmes. This corpus was analyzed from an interpretivist perspective and the findings reveal that the “glass ceiling” phenomenon is present in accounting academia in Brazil and is expressed in barriers specific to the field. Barriers are erected in processes of closure, blocking the path of black women who aim to succeed in prestigious academic spaces, regardless of their level of qualification. In this way, they are conceptualized as “stained glass ceilings”, because the barriers become visible and concrete in a country where racism is a structuring element of social relations.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 3","pages":"1263-1288"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143831050","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":"Down Girl Revisited: Kate Manne's theory of misogyny is required reading for the US Election in 2024 By K. Manne, New York: Oxford University Press. 2017. pp. 338. $14.95 (Paperback). ISBN: 9780190933203","authors":"Melissa Langworthy","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13214","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 3","pages":"1407-1418"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143830957","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 gay autoethnography: Gender, sexuality, and organizations","authors":"Renan Gomes de Moura","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13213","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Would the effeminate boy be an outsider or a fruit that grew far from the tree? Understanding the trajectory of a male child with effeminate traits can unveil practices of various institutions regarding boys and men with these characteristics, bringing to light organizational practices that are not limited to homophobia but also to “effeminophobia.” This autoethnography is an exercise in reclaiming one's own history, marked by violent exclusions, domination, and subjugation, with the aim of explaining how heterosexual normativity impacts the bodies and subjectivities of effeminate individuals. This account begins in the 1990s in the city of Barra do Piraí, a locality located in the interior of Rio de Janeiro, which was governed by male domination and influenced by a colonial culture. In this context, it is important to note that I do not consider it possible to define a period for analysis in terms of years, but rather within a biological time frame, encompassing the stages of life. Therefore, this delimitation begins in childhood and extends into adulthood. This autoethnography is dedicated to discussing effeminophobia directed toward children and adults in various institutions, especially in the workplace. To do so, it utilizes the social and professional trajectory of a young gay man who managed to become an adult.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 3","pages":"1392-1406"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143831172","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":"Women without a voice: A commentary","authors":"Stefan Gröschl","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13212","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;One of the central goals of &lt;i&gt;Gender, Work &amp; Organization&lt;/i&gt; (GWO) has been to publish studies addressing contemporary issues such as gender inequalities, gender pay gap, flexible work, career trajectories, women on corporate boards, access to leadership positions, as well as more critical accounts of gender order, gender regimes, otherness that are omnipresent in contemporary organizations. Historically, much of this research has focused on populations in industrialized nations, predominantly involving white-collar workers in formal economic sectors. However, similar issues are also pertinent to women in emerging markets and developing countries who are employed in blue-collar, nonmanagerial, low-paid, and low-skilled occupations, often within informal economies. Despite their relevance, these populations have received limited attention in empirical studies published by GWO. In this commentary, I aim to highlight the experiences of these women—whose labor is essential to their societies and the socio-economic well-being of their home countries, yet is often marked by labor rights abuses, exploitation, gender-based violence, racism, and xenophobia. Their voices are rarely heard in academic discussions on gender, work, and organization studies. As an associate editor of GWO, I urge gender researchers to include these women in their research, and I encourage scholars from other disciplines to engage in transdisciplinary projects that amplify the voices of women traditionally marginalized in academic gender discourses.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In 2014, I relocated to Panama to assist my school in France in establishing connections with business schools across Latin America. During my time in Panama and other Latin American countries, I was struck by the prevalence of domestic workers in private households, providing care services such as cleaning, cooking, and caring for children or elderly family members. The majority of these domestic workers were women. The dominance of women in the caregiving sector is not unique to Latin America. In 2021, of the 75.6 million domestic workers worldwide, 76.2% were women (International Labor Organization, &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;). In specific sectors such as childcare, women's participation rates exceed 90% (International Labor Organization, &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Despite their critical role in providing essential services and contributing to the economy, particularly in developing countries, women domestic workers often lack access to basic rights and protections (Gröschl, &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;). Approximately 40% of national labor laws worldwide do not provide protections for domestic workers (UN United Nations Women, &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;). For the 46 million women globally who are informally employed as domestic workers (ILO, &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;), fundamental workers' rights—including decent working conditions, labor organization, access to employment benefits, and legal protection—are either nonexistent or severely limited (Intern","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 3","pages":"1385-1391"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.13212","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143831382","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":"Surviving academia: Narratives on identity work and intersectionality","authors":"Milena Tekeste,&nbsp;Amalina Zakariah,&nbsp;Evronia Azer,&nbsp;Sarah Salahuddin","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13209","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines the lived experiences of four early career researchers (ECRs), from various intersecting backgrounds, who pursued their degrees at a prestigious UK university. Bonded through solidarity and care, the authors came together in an online writing group (OWG), which serves as a means of liberation from structural, colonial, and patriarchal oppression. Built upon autoethnographic vignettes, this paper reveals fragile narratives to capture subjective experiences of neglect through the lens of intersectionality and Goffmanian “passing” and “revealing”. Motivated to explore the coping mechanisms of marginalized ECRs, this paper's co-constructed data collection and co-generative analysis unpack how a meso-organization (here, the OWG) allows foreign identities to transcend the constraints of the expected academic professional identity; thus freeing authors from stigma. This paper calls for help and advocates for the urgency of support groups for ECRs as they face issues around finances, political conflicts, and family from pre- to post-COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, the research challenges internalized norms of academic productivity and responsibilization and calls for a re-examination of systemic inequalities. By advocating for collaborative autoethnography and embodied personal storytelling, this study contributes to a richer, more inclusive exploration of intersectionality in academia and emphasizes the need for structural reforms to create more equitable academic environments.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 3","pages":"1329-1348"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143831139","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}