María-Pilar Martín-Zamora, João Miguel Capela Borralho, Remedios Hernández-Linares
{"title":"Gender diversity in top management teams and corporate reputation: Evidence from Spanish listed companies","authors":"María-Pilar Martín-Zamora, João Miguel Capela Borralho, Remedios Hernández-Linares","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13202","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Companies gain significant advantages from having a favorable corporate reputation (CR), so researchers have analyzed the factors that contribute to the formation and maintenance of this intangible asset. One of these variables could be gender diversity in management. This study drew on stakeholder, signaling, and critical mass theories to explore how women in firms' top management teams (TMTs) can influence these organizations' CR. A sample of data on Spanish listed companies were collected for the period of 2017–2022. The results reveal that a positive relationship exists between gender diversity in TMTs and CR and that this relationship is moderated by women on boards of directors and by board independence. The findings contribute to the literature by providing evidence of top management's influence on CR. This empirical research also expands the literature on gender diversity in organizations by demonstrating that the positive impact of gender diversity on CR extends beyond boards of directors.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 3","pages":"1144-1168"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.13202","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143831418","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}
Alice V. Brown, Emma Vieira, Jackie Oakley, Dorothy Bagshaw, Patrick Egan, Louise Southalan, Lindey Andrews, Jocelyn Jones, Daniel Morrison, Mandy Wilson
{"title":"Reflecting on micro-ethics to center the voices of Aboriginal peoples experiencing homelessness","authors":"Alice V. Brown, Emma Vieira, Jackie Oakley, Dorothy Bagshaw, Patrick Egan, Louise Southalan, Lindey Andrews, Jocelyn Jones, Daniel Morrison, Mandy Wilson","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13197","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article shares the micro-ethical lessons from those researching alongside Aboriginal people experiencing homelessness and Aboriginal Elders in Perth, Western Australia. The article is written from the perspective of the first and second author who are two non-Aboriginal researchers being mentored in Aboriginal culture. From this positioning, it offers reflections and practical insights into researching “in the right spirit” with Aboriginal communities. More specifically, it shares lessons in negotiating community roles within community-driven research, the importance in forming relationship with Aboriginal culture as antidote to research fatigue, practical ways to work with Aboriginal communities when they have a history of being exploited in research, navigating fair and ethical payment for involvement, and ways to clearly communicate research with them. It also shares the cultural importance and benefits of working closely with Aboriginal Elders when engaging in research with Aboriginal communities, including their ability to better negotiate project scope with community, and the value in making sense of the research findings alongside them.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 3","pages":"1122-1143"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143831023","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":"“Those feminists haven't come to us, they don't know our reality”: Indian sex workers' narratives of love and power","authors":"Andrea Cornwall, Sutapa Majumdar","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13200","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Based on a collaborative project with the Sex Workers' Freedom from Injustice Collective (<i>Veshya Anyay Mukti Parishad</i>, otherwise known as “VAMP”) in Maharashtra, India, this article explores sex workers’ narratives on love, life, power and freedom. Sex workers’ own accounts of the joys and difficulties they face in their intimate lives, in and outside work, we suggest here, offer important insights into the way in which they navigate patriarchy and throw fresh light on the questions of power and choice that have been so much at the heart of the sex work/prostitution debate.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 3","pages":"1106-1121"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.13200","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143830963","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":"Inclusion o'clock—Time embodiment in the experiences of disabled employees","authors":"Andri Georgiadou, Eleni Damianidou","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13204","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study introduces the concept of “<i>timeism</i>” to examine how ableist assumptions about time and productivity intersect to marginalize disabled workers in organizational contexts. Drawing on qualitative interviews with disabled workers in Cyprus, we explore how ableist temporalities shape experiences of marginalization and resistance in the workplace. Our analysis reveals that disabled workers navigate and resist marginalizing temporal expectations while also internalizing normative pressures around pace and productivity. The study makes three key contributions: (1) it conceptualizes <i>timeism</i> as a theoretical framework for understanding the temporal dimensions of ableism in organizations; (2) it empirically demonstrates how <i>timeist</i> norms create interlocking disadvantages for disabled employees; and (3) it highlights the importance of an intersectional approach to understanding experiences of time and ableism in the workplace. The COVID-19 pandemic's disruption of conventional work rhythms provides a unique opportunity to rethink temporal norms and develop more inclusive practices. This research advocates for workplace practices that challenge ableist values and center marginalized workers' experiences, offering important implications for theory and practice in disability studies and organizational research.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 3","pages":"1079-1094"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.13204","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143831095","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":"Fathers at work—Forfeits, deficits and disregarding discourse","authors":"Jasmine Kelland, Nicola Searle, Andy Brown","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13199","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Existing research observes that fathers navigate the workplace through a complex network of mistreatment, adopting “ground breaker discourse” as a mechanism by which to maintain alignment with masculine norms to reduce mistreatment. Through analysis of online forum comments in response to a UK newspaper article exploring fathers and masculinity, this research investigates if “fatherhood forfeits” and the “patriarchal deficit” are evident in this context and how they are navigated. The research affirms the existence of “fatherhood forfeits” and the “patriarchal deficit,” uncovering an additional forfeit of “impeded attractiveness.” Additionally, it expands knowledge regarding the way in which fathers maintain hegemonic masculinity when combining work and care through observing that fathers adopted a “disregarding discourse” toward any criticism as a management strategy, suggesting a new dimension for research in this area. This research identifies ways in which organizations can improve the workplace experience for fathers, with a view to increasing gender equality for both parents and maximizing the effectiveness of staff in the post-COVID workplace. It is suggested that future research could involve a more representative sample and an exploration of any potential differences in the findings in the context of the post-COVID work environment.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 3","pages":"1062-1078"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.13199","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143831094","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":"The enemy is inside: Feminists of color navigate the nonprofit industrial complex","authors":"Manjeet Birk","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13205","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Based on interviews conducted with racialized and Indigenous activists in Vancouver, British Columbia, this article examines the structural racism that defines experiences of systemic exclusion in feminist nonprofit organizations. This article offers a critical methodological intervention in critical race studies and methods of interrogating systems of White supremacy. This article uses critical race theory's composite counter storytelling to build the character of Beti, who embodies the multiplicity of participants' experiences. This article spotlights the nonprofit industrial complex (NPIC) and its deep commitment to and reliance on institutional whiteness. Illustrating how the NPIC operates in and through Beti's life, I outline how whiteness cements the experiences of racialized activists and perpetuates a never-ending cycle that maintains institutional whiteness at every level of the organization, preventing meaningful change.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 3","pages":"1095-1105"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.13205","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143831093","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":"A trifecta trajectory of moral taint contagion: Women (church) leaders making work dirty","authors":"Gina Grandy, Sharon Mavin","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13196","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article offers insights into the dynamic and complex nature of moral taint, specifically taint that emanates at the individual level, triggered by gender, and the trajectory of this moral taint at work. Through a qualitative study of women church leaders, it explores how gender might serve as a trigger of moral taint to dirty the work. The women church leaders are perceived to be morally questionable and a source of disgust. Their gender triggers moral taint. This moral taint creates the risk of a reverse trifecta of taint contagion from the women toward the occupation, institution, and stakeholders. Others respond to the women with disgust, deflecting and protecting against contamination. The women leaders perform gendered dirty work in this sacredly masculine context and their leadership privilege is unstable, immoral, and contested because of their gender. We offer a conceptualization of gendered dirty work(ers) and suggest research avenues for women in leadership.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 3","pages":"1044-1061"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143831284","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}
Bartolomé Pascual-Fuster, Ryan Federo, Rafel Crespí-Cladera, Patricia Gabaldón
{"title":"The second glass ceiling: The dark side of women recategorization in corporate boards","authors":"Bartolomé Pascual-Fuster, Ryan Federo, Rafel Crespí-Cladera, Patricia Gabaldón","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13185","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.13185","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Previous research has shown evidence of the existence of glass ceilings, especially for women who face several barriers to reach the most powerful corporate positions. However, even when these women have reached the board, they seem to experience resistance within this group, a second glass ceiling that prevents them from being appointed to the most influential positions of the board. Based on categorization and recategorization theories and using a sample of publicly listed Spanish firms during the period 2004–2012, we find that women directors with characteristics that should facilitate their promotion to most board leadership and major board committee positions are not reaching them, that is, are not recategorized. Moreover, we uncover that it is also hard for women to attract more women and evolve into their own majority group, as the number of women directors does not increase when women are already directors in those boards.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 3","pages":"1018-1043"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142255273","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":"I'm brown and I'm bright: Using collective storying to disrupt the white-centering of successful girlhood","authors":"Eunice Gaerlan, Yael Cameron","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13193","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.13193","url":null,"abstract":"<p>What might it mean to reimagine brown-girl-as-failure to brown-girl-as-success? This article draws on findings from an empirical research study of academically successful teenage girls from Aotearoa New Zealand. In this paper we focus on what it means to be an intelligent and successful young brown woman in the context of the contemporary white-centering of meritocratic success, and the oppressive narrative that brown girls are not bright. Using a creative methodology, Laurel Richardson's collective storying and Patricia Leavy's fiction-based research, the paper engages in forms of creative analytic practice and new knowledge representation, which prioritize authentic voice and understanding of the young women participants' lived experiences. Collective stories were used in the study to challenge existing public discourses of girls and success, including the white-centering of such depictions, and to create narratives that participants could identify with, particularly those that were often unspoken but widely experienced. Using collective stories in the study offered a space of resonance with participants who could engage with the stories during the research process and contribute to their (re)storying. The interplay between the theoretics of methodological creativity and the symbolic violence of a colonial positioning of successful girlhood offers a novel contribution to girlhood studies. Through collective storying and a further interweaving of poetic voice, the disruption of the narrative of deficit offers remembering and revalidation of brown success.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 3","pages":"999-1017"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.13193","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142255272","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}
Elisabeth Cavalcante dos Santos, Ítalo da Silva, Myrna Suely Silva Lorêto
{"title":"Grupo Vivências: Rehearsing resistance to abyssal thinking in business schools","authors":"Elisabeth Cavalcante dos Santos, Ítalo da Silva, Myrna Suely Silva Lorêto","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13188","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.13188","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The objective of this study is to point out ways of resisting abyssal thinking in business schools based on the practices of the “<i>Grupo Vivências</i>,” a teaching, research, and extension group that originated in the business course of an academic center located in the peripheral region Agreste, in Pernambuco, a state in northeastern Brazil. The theoretical discussion in this article is anchored in the decolonial thinking developed by the Epistemologies of the South through the notions of “abyssal thinking” or “colonial thinking,” “engaged pedagogy,” and “pluriversal methodologies.” The discussion is based on the narrative of one of the group's coordinating professors and the first author of this article, which brings together different narratives referring to the practices of the <i>Grupo Vivências</i>, carried out between 2018 and 2022. The research and extension proposal of the group has questioned the colonial hierarchical divisions of mind versus body, theory versus practice, subject versus object, as well as knowing versus doing. Thus, the group's practices have shown resistance to abyssal/colonial thinking when: (1) they have sought to recognize the differences that make up the participants in the projects and, based on this, have elaborated possibilities of resistance to perceived oppressions mediated through the use of art; (2) they have encouraged values contrary to modern rational-instrumental logic such as care, embracement, sharing, and collective construction; and (3) they have sought to insert the ecology of knowledge into their practices by creating spaces for dialogue between different fields of procedural knowledge.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 3","pages":"977-998"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142215066","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}