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{"title":"The Managed Voice: The Platformization of Emotional Labor Among Female Game Companions","authors":"Tong Yuan,&nbsp;Lingwei Shao","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70086","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.70086","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In recent years, an increasing number of people have engaged in gig work as China's gig economy continues to expand. Game companionship, an emerging form of gig work, refers to the practice of accompanying clients in team-based online games. This article examines how female game companions perform emotional labor on Bixin, one of the largest paid game companion matching platforms in China. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 31 female game companions, this study reveals that their work is particularly shaped by algorithmic management, which governs job opportunities, monitors performance, and amplifies the isolation they experience. In the absence of established organizational or professional norms, female game companions perform three types of emotional labor on the platform, guided respectively by everyday social feeling rules, feeling rules borrowed from other service industries or peers, and commercial feeling rules. The study further demonstrates the gendered nature of emotional labor, as female game companions are expected to display traditionally feminine qualities that are often undervalued and considered deskilled within the context of their work.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 3","pages":"819-831"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147668816","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":"Making Africa Visible: Pathways for Intellectual Activism in Work and Organization","authors":"Anita Bosch,&nbsp;Ameeta Jaga,&nbsp;Nasima M. H. Carrim,&nbsp;Faith Wambura Ngunjiri","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70077","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.70077","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 3","pages":"689-697"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147668602","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":"Neither Black Enough nor White Enough: An Intersectional Perspective on the Lived Experiences of Colored Women Leaders in Postapartheid South Africa","authors":"Trudy Rhoda Forbay,&nbsp;Peliwe Pelisa Mnguni","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70075","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.70075","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article seeks to disrupt the undertheorization of Colored women's leadership experiences in gender transformation research. We refer specifically to women who self-identify as Colored South African and consider themselves to be part of the South African Colored community. Although in some contexts, the term Colored is often regarded as derogatory, in South Africa, Colored is a specific race category that was created by the apartheid government and continues to be used by the democratic government. The constructivist grounded theory (CGT) study uses intersectionality as a conceptual framework. Twenty Colored women leaders were sampled using purposive and snowball sampling, and five Colored male leaders were sampled through theoretical sampling. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews, personal narratives, and a focus group. Data analysis followed the CGT approach of initial, focused, and theoretical coding. The overall findings of the study show that the fluidity and contested nature of the Colored identity are key factors shaping the lived experiences of Colored women leaders. Although most participants embraced the identity with pride and considered it to be a cultural rather than a racial construct, some embraced the identity with ambivalence. Ambivalence is derived from negative stereotyping of Colored people in South Africa. While some participants rejected the racialization and politicization of the identity, some oscillated between accepting and rejecting the Colored identity. The in-betweenness of Coloredness left some participants feeling neither Black enough to benefit from transformation initiatives nor White enough to enjoy privileges associated with Whiteness. A sense of invisibility and voicelessness dominated their leadership experiences. Feeling like the “hidden figures” of contemporary South African organizations, and without a “clansman” at the table, many participants found themselves working extra hard in pursuit of elusive recognition. This study contributes to intersectional leadership scholarship in South Africa. It stands to inform inclusive and contextually grounded gender transformation practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 3","pages":"858-869"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.70075","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147668078","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":"Racing Against a Career-Fertility Countdown: The Prospective Motherhood Penalty and Gendered Ageism in China's Workplace","authors":"Rose Xueqing Zhang","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70082","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.70082","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examines the prospective motherhood penalty encountered by women white-collar workers of childbearing age, regardless of their childbearing status, in China's non-state-owned enterprises. Drawing on 63 qualitative interviews with women employees, selected from a broader study of 85 participants, it explores how women subjectively experience, emotionally negotiate, and strategically respond to anticipated discrimination based on reproductive potential. I introduce the concept of the Career-Fertility Countdown—a socially constructed and culturally enforced temporal regime that compresses women's career advancement and childbearing into a narrow window of acceptability. To navigate these multifaceted pressures, women adopt diverse strategies: those intending to have children engage in strategic timing and planning, whereas those determined to remain childfree—particularly lesbian women—engage in strategic gender performance and identity signaling. The Career-Fertility Countdown framework highlights how time, gender, and organizational expectations interact to shape embodied pressures and identity strategies, particularly under China's overwork-intensive and ageist labor regime. Drawing on narratives from women of varied backgrounds, this study contributes to feminist understandings of how reproductive timelines are internalized and negotiated in competitive workplaces, where prospective motherhood becomes a source of precariousness for all women. The findings also emphasize the importance of incorporating age-related cultural paradigms when studying women's barriers in the workplace. Such paradigms may exacerbate tensions between work and family aspirations and amplify gender discrimination for women at particular career stages.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 3","pages":"731-742"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.70082","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147668295","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":"When Choosing Not to Have Children Results in Moral Disadvantage at Work: Exploring the Workplace Politics of (Mis)recognition of Voluntary Childfreeness","authors":"Anne Theunissen","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70080","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.70080","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Although norms that underlie disadvantages of parenthood at work and childfreeness in society have been investigated, those that shape inequality mechanisms related to childfreeness in the workplace are largely overlooked. This negligence marginalizes childfree voices and hampers efforts to broaden our understanding of workplace (dis)advantage. This study aims to investigate how inequality mechanisms generated by moral norms operate in relation to voluntary childfreeness at work. Twenty interviews were analyzed using a Butlerian lens to reveal the workplace politics of (mis)recognition of voluntary childfreeness. The findings illustrate how various ethical frameworks generate marginalization and ethical violence. They allow certain parenting and childfree subjects to be recognized while leading to the misrecognition of others. This study contributes to the literature by illustrating how the moral norm of collective devotion to parenting gives parenting subjects some flexibility to deviate from workplace availability expectations while partially transferring their availability demands to childfree subjects. Furthermore, it highlights the absence of a moral framework that enables childfreeness to be celebrated and supported at work in the same way as parenthood and reveals how societal processes of stigmatization of childfreeness are reproduced in the workplace. Finally, it adds the term “reproductive” to the concept of the heterosexual matrix and coins nonreproductive queerness.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 3","pages":"789-800"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147668403","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":"Raising Voices From the South: The Commemorative Edition of GWO South America Workshop","authors":"Maria José Tonelli,&nbsp;Alice Oleto,&nbsp;Liege Moraes","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70073","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.70073","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 3","pages":"698-702"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147668671","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":"Intersectional Passing and the Costs of Conditional Inclusion: The Embodied Survival of South African Indian Women Leaders","authors":"Kimmy Moodley,&nbsp;Kurt April,&nbsp;Cihat Erbil","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70081","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.70081","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Although inclusion is increasingly celebrated as institutional progress, individuals marked by intersecting racialized and gendered histories often experience it as conditional and extractive. This study examines how South African Indian women (SAIW) leaders navigate the affective and epistemic labor required to remain legible within institutions that promote inclusion while sustaining exclusionary norms. Drawing on in-depth interviews with SAIW women leaders across diverse sectors, we conceptualize intersectional passing as the embodied, emotional, and cognitive labor required to sustain presence without guaranteed recognition. These practices include emotional restraint, strategic self-presentation, and epistemic withholding, which enable continued participation in institutions structured by whiteness, patriarchy, and postcolonial residue. We advance current debates in gender and work by theorizing agency not through overt resistance but as relational, iterative, and shaped by constraint. Our findings highlight how institutional inclusion often depends less on who is present and more on who can conform to dominant expectations of affective and epistemic propriety. We conclude by arguing that institutional change requires diversifying representation alongside transforming the emotional and epistemic norms that regulate belonging. We contribute to feminist and postcolonial understandings of workplace inequality and the everyday politics of recognition.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 3","pages":"768-788"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147668802","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":"Inequality, Intersectionality, and In/Visibility of Woman in the Australian Sports Broadcast Technology Industry","authors":"Faith Valencia-Forrester,&nbsp;May Isaac,&nbsp;Gerry O'Leary","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70085","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.70085","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Although sport is a salient part of Australian culture and way of life with women in sports currently at the zenith of popularity and visibility “on” screen, the experiences of women working in sports broadcast technology roles behind the scenes have been overlooked. To fill this gap, this study investigates how women in the sports broadcast technology industry experience and make meaning of gender inequality in the workplace. Employing an intersectional sensibility, we think through the prism of Acker's inequality regimes and the paradox of visibility to reveal how women proactively construct and do gender in the workplace by making themselves invisible and “fitting in” with the men while paradoxically “trying harder” to display excellence and stand out as women, while attempting to resist and subvert inequality regimes. In doing so, we contribute a conceptual framework with applications beyond sports broadcasting technology that could scaffold studies seeking to provide nuanced and microlevel analyses of the lived realities of women in gendered organizations. We further extend and deepen intersectional thinking by exploring how age, as a category of difference, offers possibilities for change in gendered organizations. Empirically, our findings can inform organizational policy and practice. Finally, we introduce sports broadcast technology to the field of gender and organization as an area ripe with research opportunities.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 3","pages":"801-818"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147668624","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}

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