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{"title":"Mother, Musician, Performer: Living the Impossible?","authors":"Sally Savage,&nbsp;Christina Scharff","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.70160","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article draws on 19 qualitative in-depth interviews with classically trained musicians in Australia and the UK, who have an active performing career and identify as mothers. Building on pioneering research on motherhood, work, and leadership in the creative industries, this article explores how mothers navigate the challenges of a precarious career in the music industry, thus adding to our understanding of the systematic barriers to women's leadership in the creative industries. In addition to highlighting widely discussed themes relating to the juggle of combining having children with a career, such as the unavailability and unaffordability of childcare, the article sheds light on hitherto unexplored issues—at least in the field of classical music studies—around the embodied aspects of pregnancy, breastfeeding and sleep deprivation and the ways in which they affect performing and career development. As the article will demonstrate, and despite more public awareness and discussion of ongoing inequalities in the classical music profession and the cultural and creative industries more broadly, the personas of “mother” and “performer” continue to be seen as mutually exclusive. Constructions of “the ideal worker” as fully committed do not only affect how mother-performers navigate the practical challenges of organizing childcare in a context where work is unpredictable and offered at very short notice, but also how they understand and construct their own, almost unintelligible, working selves.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 5","pages":"1843-1853"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.70160","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148652506","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":"Stuck in the Waiting Room: An Analytical Essay Exploring Infertility at Work","authors":"Nicola Lawrence-Thomas,&nbsp;Rose Shepherd","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.70148","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this analytical essay, we use our embodied career experiences to explore infertility at work, placing our “infertile body” at the center of analysis. We consider the ways in which infertility has impacted our identities, careers, and timelines. By laying bare our experiences of battling infertility while trying to maintain a career in academia, we illustrate how infertility introduces a liminality that “leaks” across domains: shaping identity, distorting temporality, and ultimately reshaping how we engage with our careers. After years of infertility, we found ourselves in a state of “career liminality,” where our agency and sense of self became so eroded that proactively managing our careers was no longer possible. We highlight infertility as a major, yet under-recognized, contextual factor shaping women's career progression, and suggest that this area demands urgent scholarly attention. In breaking our silence, we aim to open a conversation and encourage other scholars to develop this conversation further.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 5","pages":"1644-1657"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.70148","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148652402","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":"Enchanting the Otherwise: Magical Realism and the Gendered Ontologies of Organizational Becoming","authors":"Max Ganzin,&nbsp;Diana Ivanycheva","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.70152","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper enacts a feminist-posthumanist reimagining of gender as ontological disturbance, using magical realism not as metaphor but as epistemological method. Rejecting representational logics and the managerial rationalities of organizational realism, we advance gender not as identity or role but as spectral interference—a transversal flicker that haunts the architectures of bureaucratic life. Drawing on Barad, Braidotti, Haraway, and Glissant, we engage magical realism as an enchanted mode of inquiry that disrupts binary logics, temporal linearity, and epistemic securitization. Through conceptual vignettes and speculative fabulations, we explore affective labor, invisible metrics, haunted infrastructures, and the spectrality of gendered power. Our argument foregrounds ontological mischief as feminist praxis: a refusal of institutional fixity and a commitment to worlding otherwise. In tracing gender's recursive entanglement with race, class, and temporality, we call for a methodologically generative politics of fabulation that unsettles the realism of gendered social order and opens space for speculative reconfigurations of organizational life.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 5","pages":"1707-1719"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.70152","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148652471","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":"Organizational Technologies of Embodiment: Gendered Identity Work in Post-Cancer Survivorship","authors":"Saeedeh Rezaee Vessal,&nbsp;Judith Partouche-Sebban,&nbsp;Amitabh Anand,&nbsp;Helene Bussy-Socrate","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.70167","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>How do women rebuild femininity after cancer, and how do care organizations shape this reconstruction during survivorship? We address these questions via a qualitative case study of Institut Rafaël, a French integrative oncology center that provides programmed complementary practices such as yoga, music therapy, sex therapy, and onco-aesthetics. Drawing on symbolic interactionism and research on identity regulation and embodiment, we examine how organizational practices shape what post-cancer femininities become recognizable, legitimate, and sustainable in interaction. Empirically, the study draws on interviews with 21 women survivors, 5 interviews with healthcare professionals, and approximately 50 h of observation. We conceptualize these interventions as <i>organizational technologies of embodiment</i> (OTE): institutional practices that reconfigure sensation, appearance, and intimacy, making certain femininities interactionally recognizable while rendering others difficult to sustain. Our findings reveal a four-position patterned process—<i>refusal, separation, transition,</i> and <i>incorporation</i>—through which survivors renegotiate embodied femininity within a care-based identity workspace. We develop the concept of <i>Care-Institutional Embodied Identity Work</i> (C-EIW) to capture this relational process of re-sensing and reclaiming femininity in organizational settings that both nurture and regulate identity. The study advances gender and organization research by (1) showing how organizations materialize identity regulation and resistance through embodied, programmatically sequenced practices; (2) extending the identity workspace construct to survivorship care; and (3) theorizing how care-based repertoires of appearance, vitality, and disclosure boundaries may be mobilized in other institutional encounters beyond the clinic. We discuss implications for care providers, employers, and policymakers concerned with gendered inclusion, power, and survivorship.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 5","pages":"1854-1870"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148652504","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":"Multiple Invisibility: An Intersectional Perspective on the Invisible Work of Palestinian–Arab Women in Israel","authors":"Maha Sabbah-Karkabi,&nbsp;Amit Kaplan","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.70163","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Although there is extensive research on invisible work and its relation to labor market performance, understanding this phenomenon from the perspective of women in multiple hierarchical positions in the Middle East remains limited. This study integrates a situated intersectionality perspective with the literature on invisible work mechanisms to examine how Palestinian–Arab women in Israel from various social locations perceive, experience, and manage invisible work within their homes and how this shapes their participation in paid employment. Based on qualitative analysis of three group interviews with Palestinian–Arab women from diverse classes and geographic spaces in Israel, three interrelated themes emerged. First, the study uncovers overlooked types of invisible work shaped by gender, class, and space, intensified by large families and extended kin roles in a patrilocal context. Second, women were found to adopt a self-sacrifice ideology while seeking to balance paid and unpaid work, yet their perceptions of self-sacrifice vary according to class and space, particularly where these intersect with structural constraints. Third, the analysis shows how social and structural inequalities shape both access to outsourcing and its legitimacy. Building on these findings, we introduce the concept of situated invisible work and develop a typology which captures how multiple intersecting layers of inequality shape women's experiences of invisible work and its relation to paid work differently across social positions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 5","pages":"1871-1887"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.70163","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148652509","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":"On Racialized, Gendered, Precarious Work: Struggles of Community Health Workers During the National Health Insurance Pilot Program in the Tshwane District, South Africa","authors":"Sivuyisiwe Wonci","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.70162","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The infrastructure of precarious work is racialized and gendered, affecting disenfranchised Black women who carry the burden of low paid caregiving within the healthcare system. In South Africa, Community Health Workers, predominantly Black women from marginalized communities, have been vital in providing primary healthcare services at home, amidst widespread barriers to healthcare access for many Black South Africans, exacerbated by unemployment, poverty, and inadequate infrastructure. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how the experiences of Community Health Workers during the National Health Insurance pilot program in the Tshwane District speak to the racialized and gendered nature of precarious work. Through qualitative research involving in-depth interviews and focus group discussions with Community Health Workers, Outreach Team Leaders, District Managers, and policymakers, findings reveal that Community Health Workers were subjected to exploitative contracts and poor conditions while delivering services in communities forgotten by the State. The humanity of Community Health Workers in this study reflects the intersecting oppressive systems of race and gender that continue to define the life of a disposable Black worker in post-apartheid South Africa. The paper urges the South African government to reform the precarious conditions of Community Health Workers by offering secure, full-time employment with decent wages, improved working conditions, and addressing the socio-economic challenges of the communities they serve. If these propositions are not met, the National Health Insurance Bill, which hopes to move the country toward universal health coverage, will institutionalize underpaid community healthcare giving, continuing the marginalization and exploitation of poor Black women.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 5","pages":"1806-1818"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.70162","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148652482","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":"Between Steel and Skin: Corporeal Colonization of Women Workers and Gendered Organizations in Heavy Industry","authors":"Esra Kasap,&nbsp;Janset Özen-Aytemur,&nbsp;Cihat Erbil","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.70150","url":null,"abstract":"<p>“I felt as if my body was being occupied by the factory.” The words of one woman working in Turkey's heavy industry were repeated in many accounts, capturing how industrial infrastructures calibrated to male norms press directly into women's bodies. Drawing on interpretative phenomenological analysis of 16 in-depth interviews, this study examines how women navigate embodied participation in a male-dominated industrial field. We conceptualize these experiences as corporeal colonization, a patterned and cumulative process through which organizational arrangements settle into bodily capacity over time. The analysis identifies three mechanisms: architectural misfit, bodily violation, and medical and reproductive oversight. These mechanisms render visibility a source of vulnerability and normalize endurance as a condition of belonging. Although participants described small, situated practices of bodily adjustment, these remained confined to individualized coping rather than collective resistance. The study shows how industrial infrastructures actively produce embodied inequality and how organizational power becomes materially inscribed in bodies through everyday work practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 5","pages":"1658-1675"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.70150","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148652422","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":"Technofeminism at Work: Artificial Intelligence-Mediated Negotiations and the Reproduction of Gendered Communication Norms","authors":"Sue H. Moon,&nbsp;Jing Betty Feng","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.70145","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examines how artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes gender dynamics in workplace negotiations. Adopting a technofeminist lens, we conceptualize gender–technology relations as mutually shaping and fluid. Using a convergent mixed-methods design, participants negotiated job offers with an AI chatbot recruiter. Qualitative transcript analysis identified gendered communication patterns, which were complemented by quantitative measures of negotiation outcomes and pre- and post-survey results. Findings reveal a paradox: AI-mediated negotiations muted traditional gender gaps—women and men achieved comparable outcomes—yet masculine-coded communication styles were associated with higher scores than feminine-coded communication styles. Participants also anthropomorphized the AI, projecting gendered identities that shaped satisfaction and outcomes. We introduce the concept of <i>recursive human-AI gender learning</i> to explain how humans and algorithms iteratively train one another, reproducing gendered communication norms within seemingly neutral systems. The study contributes to feminist AI scholarship by illuminating how AI both disrupts and reproduces gendered power relations in organizational life.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 5","pages":"1676-1691"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.70145","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148652465","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}

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{"title":"Editorial Introduction to the Special Issue: Crises and the (Re)Organizing of Gender and Work","authors":"Kristy Kelly,&nbsp;Jamie L. Callahan,&nbsp;Yasmeen Makarem,&nbsp;Manisha Desai,&nbsp;Firuzeh Shokooh Valle,&nbsp;Akosua Adomako Ampofo","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70109","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.70109","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This introduction develops a feminist framework for analyzing crises by synthesizing seven articles in the <i>Gender, Work &amp; Organization</i> Special Issue, “Crises and the (Re)Organizing of Gender and Work.” Drawing on intersectional, assemblage, and decolonial feminist perspectives, we conceptualize crisis as an enduring condition produced through structural inequalities and the governance of labor, migration, and care. The articles—spanning Chile, India, Lebanon, South Africa, Türkiye, the United Kingdom, and the United States—show how crisis reorganizes gendered work through interconnected dynamics of precarity, care, embodiment, and institutional power. At the same time, they illuminate feminist practices that emerge within crisis, including mutual aid, deep care, insurgent social reproduction, collective action, and institutional critique. We synthesize these contributions through a comparative analytic that clarifies how crises are framed and where change is pursued, advancing a practice-grounded feminist framework for understanding and contesting contemporary crises.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 3","pages":"703-707"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147668277","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}