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{"title":"Bringing Microaggressions From the Shadows to the Spotlight: Unveiling Silencing Mechanisms and Distinct Patterns in Coping","authors":"Delia Mensitieri,&nbsp;Smaranda Boroş,&nbsp;Claudia Toma","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13256","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>While many organizations work intensively to implement gender equity policies, women's experiences remain heavily marked by covert forms of bias, with microaggressions being the most ubiquitous. Microaggressions (which subtly but persistently manifest prejudice at the behavioral level), persist in workplaces despite growing awareness of their negative impacts. This qualitative study examines why they are often met with silence, exploring the interplay between silencing mechanisms rooted in inequality regimes and individual coping strategies. One hundred twenty-five participants (three-quarters of whom were women) shared nearly 700 incidents of microaggressions on an online platform in a Western European setting. Findings highlight five distinct stages individuals cope with microaggressions: ignorance, awareness, hypervigilance, resignation, and psychological control. Each of these coping mechanisms was influenced by structural silencing mechanisms, the individual's understanding of what was happening to them, and the frequency with which they encountered microaggressions. The study underscores how structural inequalities perpetuate microaggressions and their subsequent silencing, emphasizing that the harm of microaggressions goes beyond the initial incident to include the inability to address them effectively. This demonstrates that addressing microaggressions requires a twofold approach: dismantling silencing mechanisms rooted in inequality regimes and empowering individuals with tailored strategies to confront these subtle yet damaging forms of discrimination. This research provides key insights into fostering more inclusive and equitable workplaces.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 4","pages":"1615-1631"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144255987","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":"Gendered Inequalities: A Comparative Analysis of Gendered Experiences of Inequality in Technology in Egypt and the United Kingdom","authors":"Fatima Maatwk","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13254","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Inequality experiences are strongly gendered and context-specific. Drawing on semi-structured in-depth interviews with technology industry employees in Egypt and the United Kingdom, this article explores intersectionality and the contextuality of gendered inequalities. It investigates how context shapes gendered experiences of inequality and how this plays out at the workplace. The paper offers a cross-cultural comparison which shows that the experiences of women in tech reflect the cultural construction of gender roles and the sectoral dynamics. By contrasting the Middle Eastern context of Egypt and the Western context of the United Kingdom, the article unpacks the complicated influence of cultural contexts on the experiences of women in tech and shows that inequality is individually unique, complex, and contextual. The study reveals the mechanisms by which contextual gender dynamics shape the workplace experiences of inequality, and the relational and complex nature of intersectionality.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 4","pages":"1604-1614"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.13254","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144256307","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":"Who Cares? Gender Differences in Social Reproduction and Well-Being in South Africa","authors":"Dorrit Posel","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13249","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines women's responsibility for social reproduction in South Africa. Drawing from a range of studies that analyze quantitative data, it considers how distinctive characteristics of South Africa's socio-economic landscape shape the nature of this responsibility. These characteristics include rates of paternal coresidence and marriage that are amongst the lowest in the world, unemployment and inequality rates that are amongst the highest, and continuing patterns of individual labor migration with race remaining a significant socio-economic stratifier. Given these features, women are not only most often the providers of caring labor in the household they are often also the financial providers. Women are responsible for social reproduction even when they are not wives or mothers, and this responsibility limits their access and returns to paid work. Gender asymmetries in who carries the economic costs of social reproduction are highlighted by evidence of both a motherhood earnings penalty and a male marital earnings premium in the South African labor market. In addition to economic measures, the paper reviews research on the noneconomic costs of social reproduction including life satisfaction and depression, and it highlights the importance of recognizing intersectionality in the well-being of women.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 4","pages":"1593-1603"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.13249","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144255849","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":"Sexual Harassment and Service Labor: Strategies and Relational Practices","authors":"David Farrugia","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13251","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Sexual harassment and gender-based violence are longstanding concerns in studies of service work, but are typically analyzed in terms of interactions between workers and consumers within gendered definitions of “good service,” neglecting the role of relationships amongst workers as a critical context that facilitates or constrains how workers can respond. However, literature on young women and harassment in leisure settings shows that women's safety is an ongoing relational construction—something that women achieve together through relational work. Inspired by these insights and drawing on interviews with service workers, this paper explores how workers respond to sexual harassment from customers, managers and co-workers, and shows how workers—primarily women but also sometimes men as well—collaborate in managing sexual harassment at work. The paper therefore argues for a relational analysis of the way that women negotiate the gendered and heterosexualized power relationships of service labor.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 4","pages":"1580-1592"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.13251","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144255848","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":"Sawubona","authors":"Bettina Lynda Bastian,&nbsp;Bronwyn Aisha Wood,&nbsp;Natalia Vershinina","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13250","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 4","pages":"1567-1568"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.13250","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144256112","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":"Affected and Intrinsic Authenticity: Navigating Internalized Gay Ageism on LGBTQ+ Homestay Platforms","authors":"Joseph Mellors,&nbsp;Valerie Egdell","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13252","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In our paper, we draw on 14 in-depth interviews with 11 self-identified gay men aged 50–74 years who host on LGBTQ+ homestay platforms. We examine how they navigate the interplay of age, gender, and sexuality through claims of authenticity, highlighting how these hosts manage authenticity amid normative expectations and shedding light on identity dynamics for marginalized groups. Our analysis reveals the complexities of authenticity in self-presentation, highlighting tensions between personal identity and societal, gendered, and age-related expectations, as well as the perceived gap between inclusivity claims and actual experiences. We also explore the intersection of economic necessity and identity negotiation. We find that older hosts may adjust their presentation to align with beauty norms or market pressures, prioritizing affected authenticity to increase their chances of securing bookings. We distinguish between affected and intrinsic authenticity, showing how hosts adapt their presentation to external demands in specific contexts, while potentially maintaining intrinsic authenticity elsewhere. This framework offers insights for future research on how societal pressures and economic factors influence authenticity claims, exploring the balance between affected and intrinsic authenticity and its implications for individual agency and organizational dynamics.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 4","pages":"1569-1579"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.13252","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144256113","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 Lens on Gender Roles in Entrepreneurial Intention and Implementation","authors":"Jakub Golik,&nbsp;Julita E. Wasilczuk","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13246","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Based on social feminist theory, post-structural feminism and gender-role orientation (GRO) (masculinity, femininity and androgyny), the aim of this research is to study the entrepreneurial process through the lenses of both biological sex and socially constructed gender, in order to disentangle their effects and to shed new light on the process. Secondly, we aim to push forward the research on the early-stage entrepreneurial process by going beyond entrepreneurial intention. We achieve this by including the entrepreneurial implementation intention construct as an important intermediate step between intention and actual action, thus filling the intention–action gap. We propose a model of the entrepreneurial process consisting of four ordered elements, namely: general risk propensity, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, entrepreneurial intention, and entrepreneurial implementation intention. In order to verify the model and to investigate the influence of gender-role orientations on each of the model's constituents, we employ structural equation modeling. Additionally, we use multigroup analysis to compare males and females. This is done on a group of more than 670 students from Polish and Latvian technical universities. Our research empirically confirms the proposed model of the entrepreneurial process. Biological sex influences risk propensity and entrepreneurial intention while having no impact on entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial implementation intention. Using GRO provides more insight as we observe that among all individuals masculine GRO reinforces all elements of the entrepreneurial process, whereas feminine GRO does not, with the exception of perceived risk propensity, but only among females. Finally, androgynous GRO has the most varied effect out of all three GROs. Both theoretical approaches explain the lower entrepreneurial intentions of women, which are due to early socialization and experiences shaping social gender, as well as the attribution of entrepreneurship to the male sphere of activity. Finally, our study shows that using both biological sex and social gender concurrently provides more insights.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 4","pages":"1523-1539"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144255979","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":"Managing the Unwanted: An Application of Dispositional Analysis on the Athena SWAN Initiative in UK Business Schools","authors":"Shamima Haque,&nbsp;Thereza Raquel Sales de Aguiar,&nbsp;Keith A. Bender","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13247","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Athena SWAN initiative proposes to address gender equality and diversity (E&amp;D) in higher education settings. This research examines how Athena SWAN is organized as a means of controlling gender E&amp;D in the context of UK Business Schools. It involves deductive thematic analysis of secondary (Athena SWAN applications) and primary data (semi-structured interviews). Through the lens of dispositional analysis, we explore the interplay between Foucault's dispositive modalities of law, discipline and dispositives of security involved in the Athena SWAN initiative. We find significant problems in the way these modalities interact with Athena SWAN. There is often a disconnection between the individual, departmental and institutional motivations that affect disciplinary mechanisms, such as the self-evaluation conducted by the self-assessment team (SAT). Strategic decisions are typically centralized at the university level, emphasizing achieving optimal levels of inequality comparable with the sector which is in line with accreditations, rankings and funding requirements. This often leads to problems related to a lack of control and clear accountability procedures. The results of this study suggest that Athena SWAN creates a space for self-governing and visibility of gender E&amp;D practices. However, without legal structures there has been limited progress in advancing this agenda because discipline and security take over by establishing a new “normative” level based on optimization. Legal structures can destabilize the “normative” optimum level of current E&amp;D practices, opening new possibilities for discipline to prevent the unwanted.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 4","pages":"1540-1555"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.13247","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144255980","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":"“Don't Work for Soyciety:” Involuntary Celibacy and Unemployment","authors":"AnnaRose Beckett-Herbert,&nbsp;Eran Shor","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13248","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Surveys of involuntary celibates (“incels”) suggest that they tend to be not in education, employment or training (NEET) at disproportionately high rates. However, it remains unclear whether and how being NEET is connected to incels' ideology and life circumstances. To investigate this, we conducted a qualitative thematic analysis of over a thousand comments posted on the main incel forum, <i>incels.is</i>. We found that many users promoted unemployment and social disengagement as a form of retaliation against a society they feel has harmed them. These users often encouraged other incels to embrace a life of isolation and used employment status as an assessment of commitment to the incel identity. Users also reported experiences of discrimination, bullying, and feeling incompetent at workplaces and educational institutions. We conclude that, for incels, being unemployed can be both an ideological stance and a consequence of their experienced or perceived marginalization.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 4","pages":"1556-1566"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.13248","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144255981","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":"Role Incongruity of Women in United States Law Enforcement: A National Survey Exploring Global and Specific Resistance in a Gendered Organization","authors":"Venessa Garcia","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13245","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Since the 1990s, there has been a lot of research on women in policing and resistance to their entry into the field. Much of the research has examined specific resistance (i.e., individualized resistance based on perceived performance), whereas fewer studies today examine global resistance (i.e., resistance to women police in general). Applying role congruity theory, global and specific resistance by men coworkers, administrators, and the public was examined for a national sample of 358 women in United States law enforcement. It was found that women in law enforcement received slightly more global resistance from the public, whereas men coworkers displayed more specific resistance, and specific resistance was more likely to occur in areas related to the perceived ability of women to handle a masculine job. Multivariate analyses revealed that law enforcement remains a gendered organization with continued role incongruity for women.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 4","pages":"1511-1522"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144255858","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}