Michelle O’Shea, Victoria Paraschak, Sonya Pearce, Hazel Maxwell, Alison Pullen
{"title":"Everyday activism and “actionable” hope as tempered radicals","authors":"Michelle O’Shea, Victoria Paraschak, Sonya Pearce, Hazel Maxwell, Alison Pullen","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13176","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.13176","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper takes its departure from Rebecca Solnit's idea that there should be “hope in darkness” as we work towards a shared preferred future that resists gendered and racial inequities and oppressions. We put forward “actionable” hope which embodies hope as an everyday action, an activism enacted by “tempered radicals” (Meyerson & Scully, 1995). This thinking about the relationship between hope and activism emerged through our coming together and was bound by our learning and privileging of Indigenous knowledges and a strengths and hope perspective. The paper is presented in the form and style of polyphonic writing conveying the openness and generosity of spirit that the strengths and hope perspective carries for tempered radicals. Our “insider” and “outsider” positionings unfold as we engage in unsettling discussions of “privilege.” Our practices give recognition to being sensitive to issues of belonging, care, and collective hope, while working towards transformative social change that addresses systemic inequalities. Belonging is seen as essential for collective everyday activism which requires affective actional hope for realizing shared preferred futures.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 2","pages":"692-709"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.13176","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141881376","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":"Responses of workers' organizations to the COVID-19 crisis: Intersectional approaches of domestic workers in Mexico","authors":"Fernanda Teixeira","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13178","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.13178","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly impacted the paid domestic work sector in the global South, exacerbating long-standing inequalities experienced by domestic workers. This article explores how domestic workers' organizations (DWOs) mobilized to support this marginalized workforce during the crisis. Adopting an intersectional perspective, the study shows that DWOs in Mexico strategically used their intersecting identities as working-class women from ethnic minorities to garner support from civil society organizations aligned with their cause. These efforts proved essential in addressing the immediate needs of domestic workers and challenging inequalities in the face of inadequate support from national and local authorities. DWOs played a crucial role in raising awareness, providing services, and shaping public policy to promote decent work in the sector. The article contributes to the body of research on domestic work by illuminating DWOs' intersectional approaches to confronting oppression and marginalization during the crisis. This has wider implications for understanding other sectors characterized by inequality, particularly where marginalized women form a significant part of the workforce.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 2","pages":"673-691"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.13178","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141881381","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}
Jolanta Maj, Aneta Hamza-Orlinska, Inessa Sytnik, Artem Stopochkin, Mustafa Özbilgin
{"title":"Misrecognition and labor market inclusion of refugee mothers","authors":"Jolanta Maj, Aneta Hamza-Orlinska, Inessa Sytnik, Artem Stopochkin, Mustafa Özbilgin","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13179","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.13179","url":null,"abstract":"<p>185,000 refugees from Ukraine have started working in Poland since the Russian war began. Drawing on Bourdieusian concepts of capitals, misrecognition, habitus, and the field, the paper theorizes the subjective and objective terms of inclusion across intersectional interplay of motherhood, ethnicity, and refugee status. In particular, we explore how intersectional marginalized identities of individuals shape their negotiation power over terms of their labor market inclusion. Using qualitative interview data from 10 Ukrainian working mothers in Poland who became refugees following the Russian war in Ukraine in 2022, we demonstrate that misrecognition leads to uneven relations of power curtailing working refugee mothers' agency to negotiate the terms of their inclusion.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 2","pages":"653-672"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141866817","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":"Going loca: Depression at work as a public feeling in Peru","authors":"Riya Bisht, Kathleen Riach","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13170","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.13170","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this article, we invite the reader to join us in developing a culturally situated understanding of mental health at work in the Global South. Basing our analysis within the context of Peru, we situate depression as a feminist-inspired “Public Feelings project,” whereby embodied experiences such as depression are inseparable from historical, social, and political structures of oppression (Cvetkovich, 2007). Through methodologically engaging in a mode of Nguyen et al.’s (2016) epistemic friendship, we explore the experiences of 12 Peruvian working women who self-identify as having depression. Using interviews and arts-based methods; specifically, Peruvian-inspired portraiture, as a potential well for hope, healing, and humanity, we consider the narratives, experiences, feelings, and other embodied forms of knowing around depression and work in Peru. Working with the in vivo concept of “being loco,” we develop two art-works presenting in dialogue with findings that explore the potential of how a Public Feelings lens might open up theoretical and methodological vistas for exploring in situ health experiences as constituted in particular geohistorical and gendered landscapes.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 2","pages":"634-652"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.13170","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141775127","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}
Yseult Freeney, Lisa van der Werff, Danna Greenberg, Teresa Hayden, Vera Costello, Alison Coleman
{"title":"More than “just a mom”: Identity distancing and reactivation during re-entry transitions","authors":"Yseult Freeney, Lisa van der Werff, Danna Greenberg, Teresa Hayden, Vera Costello, Alison Coleman","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13172","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.13172","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Re-entering the workforce after a career interruption is a common work/family transition for women with caregiving responsibilities. Despite the frequency of these transitions over women's careers, extant scholarship has tended to be descriptive of the motives and barriers behind these transitions and has not built a more theoretically-informed understanding of re-entry transitions. In this study, we draw upon identity theory to explore women's subjective experiences of re-entry transitions as we examine how women's identities evolve from being “just a mom” to a (re)activation of their work identity. Our findings highlight how, through a combination of psychological and relational mechanisms, women distance themselves from their stay-at-home identity and begin to reactivate a dormant or lingering work identity. Our work contributes to understanding of work/family transitions and identity theory as we theorize how this transition occurs and the mechanisms that support this identity transition process. We also call for changes in the practices of organizations and government agencies to better support this identity reactivation through improvements in processes related to supporting women in preparing for re-entry following a career break and recruitment of women at this important transition point.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 2","pages":"610-633"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.13172","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141785292","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 re-entry following maternity leave for first-time mothers: An events, social identity and intersectional theories informed identity work framework","authors":"Christine Cross, Colette Darcy, Thomas Garavan","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13162","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.13162","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Many first-time mothers experience significant identity issues on work re-entry following maternity leave, an important individual and life-related event. Work re-entry prompts significant identity tensions leading to identity work challenges and potential career changes. We address this significant life event and develop a subjective identity informed conceptual framework explaining its key components and outcomes. We propose that for first-time mothers, re-entry following maternity leave triggers a cognitive and subjective assessment of identity threat and opportunity leading to the use of multiple identity work strategies to address personal, role, and collective identities. We analyze the impacts of these reworked identities and identity work for career decision making and outcomes. We theoretically underpin our framework using event systems, a subjective perspective on social identity and intersectional theories and in doing so, propose future research questions and highlight implications for national policy and organizational practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 2","pages":"590-609"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.13162","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141739711","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":"Sexism in business schools (and universities): Structural inequalities, systemic failures, and individual experiences","authors":"Caroline Rodrigues Silva, Alison Pullen, Ilaria Boncori","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13167","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.13167","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"31 5","pages":"1845-1851"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141611979","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}
Ciarán McFadden, Marian Crowley-Henry, Nick Rumens, Tonette S. Rocco, Joshua C. Collins
{"title":"Doing transgender: Gender minorities in the organization","authors":"Ciarán McFadden, Marian Crowley-Henry, Nick Rumens, Tonette S. Rocco, Joshua C. Collins","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13165","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.13165","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"31 5","pages":"1754-1765"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141611982","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":"“This is my job now”: Exploring the identity shift of trailing mothers through the lens of feminist mothering","authors":"Ortal Slobodin","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13171","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.13171","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Trailing spouses who relocate to support their partners' careers abroad often experience a threat or challenge to their sense of identity. Prior studies have shown that because expatriation processes reinforce traditional gender roles, expatriate mothers are involved in intensive mothering practices and ideologies, often as a way of finding new meaning in their lives. The current study aimed to explore how motherhood and professional identity intersect in trailing wives, and specifically, whether expatriate-related developments in professional and mother identities reciprocally influence each other. In addition, the study explored whether these identity development processes may be intertwined with current sociocultural norms of motherhood. The study included in-depth interviews with 14 trailing mothers of children under the age of 12. Thematic analysis was used to identify patterns of meaning across the dataset. Three main themes emerged capturing participants' experiences of their identity processes: negotiating the model of intensive mothering, mutual influence of mother identity and work identity, and empowered mothering. Together, these themes demonstrate how, through the subjective construction of their work and mother identities, expatriate mothers deconstruct the oppressive mandates of motherhood, reclaiming their power and agency.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 2","pages":"570-589"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.13171","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141570827","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":"Connecting art, maintenance, and motherhood: How Ukeles's maintenance art shapes understandings of maintenance","authors":"Nil Gulari, Anna Dziuba, Astrid Huopalainen","doi":"10.1111/gwao.13169","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.13169","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper proposes an alternative feminist understanding of maintenance by investigating the artistic practices and lived experiences of feminist artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles (b. 1939). Our main theoretical and empirical focus lies on maintenance, and we show how art and motherhood as productive connection points proffer different ways of perceiving, understanding, and practicing maintenance. By contextualizing our case within the historical backdrop of New York between the late 1960s and 1980s, we demonstrate how Ukeles's maintenance art proposes novel ways of perceiving the value of maintenance, from the maintenance performed by mothers to considerations of the broader societal implications of maintenance. Such alternative political understanding aligns with critiques of postfeminist societal discourse. We contend that Ukeles's art inspires a political shift in our thinking about maintenance, where maintenance is valued not solely for its indispensable and utilitarian attributes but also it's relational, emotional, and embodied qualities. This nuanced understanding requests visibility for maintenance and foregrounds “more-than-I,” agency, and continuity of life, thereby acknowledging the inherent value of the political dimensions of maintenance.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"32 2","pages":"544-569"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.13169","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141570825","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}