{"title":"Gender and Space: Homeworking at the Dining Room Table","authors":"Makiko Fuwa","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70071","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.70071","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study investigates the construction of professional workspaces within the private sphere of the home and the effect of gender on the spatial construction of such spaces. It focuses on how teleworking from home affects men's and women's ability to make use of spatial resources, including layout, dedicated space, and location, in the creation of home workspaces. Drawing on a national survey conducted in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic, this study sheds light on gender disparities in the construction of home workspaces. This study finds that professional workspaces in the home have devolved into “private” professional spaces (with a closed layout and dedicated space, located away from the center of the house) dominated by men and “public” professional spaces (with an open layout and shared table, located at the center of the house) dominated by women. Furthermore, whereas the regression coefficients for having children in the household on the likelihood of working in the public space within the home are positive for women, they are negative for men. Additionally, having a professional, technical, or managerial occupation is negatively associated with working in the dining/living room for men only. Therefore, the introduction of paid work to the private sphere likely results in the re-construction of gendered professional space within the home with different degrees of access to spatial resources for men and women. Women's ability to control space may further be limited within the home. The gendered and unequal distribution of spaces in the home are novel mechanisms that reproduce gendered power differentials.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 2","pages":"669-680"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.70071","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146176171","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":"Love, Loss, and Rebirth: A Duoethnography of Career Transition in Neoliberal Academia","authors":"Suzy D’Enbeau, Astrid Villamil","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70052","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.70052","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Neoliberal tenets of career including a focus on the individual, self-sufficiency, a disembodied worker, and linear career path are suffused throughout academia. However, extant research demonstrates how this neoliberal stronghold might rest upon contested terrain, particularly as post-pandemic workers are re-evaluating life goals and aspirations. This study contributes to the literature on academic career transitions in a neoliberal context by exploring how shifting life situations prompted by love and loss impact meanings of career. We combine the tenets of feminist invitational rhetoric with duoethnography to analyze our personal stories of career change. We develop an alternative feminist relational career transition framework that delineates witnessing, awakening, celebrating, and sustaining as invitational processes to resist neoliberal logics and facilitate rebirth.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 2","pages":"656-668"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146154812","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}
Rebecca Thaffenne Santos Oliveira, Yasmin Iara Ferreira Veloso, Vérica Freitas, Verônica Angélica Freitas de Paula
{"title":"Women Entrepreneurs in the Informal Economy: Challenges and Motivations for Entering the Informal Market","authors":"Rebecca Thaffenne Santos Oliveira, Yasmin Iara Ferreira Veloso, Vérica Freitas, Verônica Angélica Freitas de Paula","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70070","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.70070","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The aim of this study is to analyze the factors that affect the entrepreneurial activity of women in the informal economy in emerging economies, considering their motivations and the challenges they face in this context. The research was conducted through a systematic literature review, accompanied by a bibliographic analysis of the main studies on the subject. Articles were selected from the Web of Science and Scopus databases in order to identify the motivations for women's entrepreneurship in the informal market, the challenges faced by these women, public policies and specific initiatives to encourage female entrepreneurship, and the impact of these women on the economy. The main characteristics of bibliographic production on the subject were also mapped. As a result, the analysis of the selected articles revealed important cultural, economic, and social barriers that still limit women's entrepreneurship. In addition, the results show that there is a lack of public policies and initiatives focused on the inclusion of women entrepreneurs, especially training programs and access to credit. The research also highlighted the positive impact of women entrepreneurs, contributing to income generation, promoting social mobility, and strengthening informal economies. These results offer a more comprehensive understanding of the complexities involved in this process, highlighting the opportunities and challenges faced by women.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 2","pages":"644-655"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.70070","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146154651","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}
Catherine Albiston, Tonya L. Brito, Cathy Hu, Daniela Campos Ugaz
{"title":"“The Hamster Wheel Is on Fire”: How the Pandemic Amplified Inequality in the Academy","authors":"Catherine Albiston, Tonya L. Brito, Cathy Hu, Daniela Campos Ugaz","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70066","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.70066","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Institutional practices often recreate inequalities within organizations, especially in times of crisis like the COVID pandemic. Although early pandemic research expressed alarm that increased caregiving demands were reducing women's research productivity, it paid less attention to changing work demands. By contrast, this article examines whether pandemic changes in academic work demands varied across race and gender, drawing on survey data from 1198 faculty members in two university systems in the United States. Consistent with theories of institutional routines, identity taxation, and status beliefs, we find that, compared to their colleagues, women and faculty of color spent more time on service and teaching, performed more emotional labor, and experienced more burnout. Women report greater decreases than men in research productivity, but the presence of children does not fully explain these gender differences. Women are more likely to consider leaving the university, but intentions to leave are driven by their disproportionate emotional labor and service during the pandemic. Our findings provide insight into how pandemic increases in academic labor fell more heavily on some faculty members than others. They also contribute to our understanding of mechanisms that reproduce inequality in the academy.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 2","pages":"624-643"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.70066","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146162430","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":"“Waiting for Them to Die or Retire”: The Role of Men Allies in Perpetuating Gender-Washing in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math","authors":"Danielle Vegas Lewis","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70069","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.70069","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>There are perhaps no disciplines more culpable of gender-washing than STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math). Despite formal efforts to increase the number of women in STEM across all levels of academia (i.e., undergraduate, graduate, and faculty), these disciplines not only remain dominated by men, but their cultures also continue to be hostile and unwelcoming to those who do not identify as men. This continued hegemony and the harmful STEM environments that are born out of men's dominance suggests that initiatives aimed at recruiting and retaining women into these disciplines may not be as effective as intended. Men's ally training programs are one such institutional effort that seek to increase the number of women faculty in STEM and generate more inclusive disciplinary cultures. However, data from this study with 26 men faculty, all of whom have engaged in some type of formal ally training program, demonstrates that this population can perpetuate hegemonic masculinity within their disciplines, despite an interest in, genuine care for, and formal education on how to advocate for their women colleagues. One way that men allies reify their dominance within STEM is a lack of willingness to coach their men colleagues who are most in need of education—those who articulate sexist ideas or create harmful environments for women—about the importance of gender equity. Results from this study underscore the ways in which men allies not only reify men's dominance within STEM, but also how and why the act of gender-washing through the propagation and celebration of initiatives such as men ally training programs ultimately may hinder gender equity efforts.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 2","pages":"610-623"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146193692","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":"“Waiting for Them to Die or Retire”: The Role of Men Allies in Perpetuating Gender-Washing in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math","authors":"Danielle Vegas Lewis","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.70069","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>There are perhaps no disciplines more culpable of gender-washing than STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math). Despite formal efforts to increase the number of women in STEM across all levels of academia (i.e., undergraduate, graduate, and faculty), these disciplines not only remain dominated by men, but their cultures also continue to be hostile and unwelcoming to those who do not identify as men. This continued hegemony and the harmful STEM environments that are born out of men's dominance suggests that initiatives aimed at recruiting and retaining women into these disciplines may not be as effective as intended. Men's ally training programs are one such institutional effort that seek to increase the number of women faculty in STEM and generate more inclusive disciplinary cultures. However, data from this study with 26 men faculty, all of whom have engaged in some type of formal ally training program, demonstrates that this population can perpetuate hegemonic masculinity within their disciplines, despite an interest in, genuine care for, and formal education on how to advocate for their women colleagues. One way that men allies reify their dominance within STEM is a lack of willingness to coach their men colleagues who are most in need of education—those who articulate sexist ideas or create harmful environments for women—about the importance of gender equity. Results from this study underscore the ways in which men allies not only reify men's dominance within STEM, but also how and why the act of gender-washing through the propagation and celebration of initiatives such as men ally training programs ultimately may hinder gender equity efforts.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 2","pages":"610-623"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146193717","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":"Female Veteran Transition: Exploring Gendered Power Relations, Discipline and Decision Making","authors":"Caroline Micklewright, Robert A. Allen","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.70062","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper investigates how military life affects the decision making of female RAF veterans during transition into the civilian world. By adopting a longitudinal approach and analyzing interviews conducted over 3 years this study explores the relationship between how normalized gendered militarized behaviors and idealized military aspirational identities affect choices made during transition out of the military. Disruptions to this idealized identity brought on by the decision to leave the military trigger recognition of and adjustments to the sense of self. Female veterans' consistency of self is supported through this disruption by drawing on deeply valued aspects of aspirational identity while rejecting others. The study has contributed to theory by demonstrating how gendered discipline and power combine to influence female veterans’ ways of being and support aspects of aspirational identities as they transition into civilian life and face disruptions caused by differences in gendered expectations within military and wider society. By design, this research focused on a limited number of female veterans' experiences as they left the RAF, allowing a hitherto underexplored veteran cohort to be better understood.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 2","pages":"594-609"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.70062","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146176628","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":"Female Veteran Transition: Exploring Gendered Power Relations, Discipline and Decision Making","authors":"Caroline Micklewright, Robert A. Allen","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70062","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.70062","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper investigates how military life affects the decision making of female RAF veterans during transition into the civilian world. By adopting a longitudinal approach and analyzing interviews conducted over 3 years this study explores the relationship between how normalized gendered militarized behaviors and idealized military aspirational identities affect choices made during transition out of the military. Disruptions to this idealized identity brought on by the decision to leave the military trigger recognition of and adjustments to the sense of self. Female veterans' consistency of self is supported through this disruption by drawing on deeply valued aspects of aspirational identity while rejecting others. The study has contributed to theory by demonstrating how gendered discipline and power combine to influence female veterans’ ways of being and support aspects of aspirational identities as they transition into civilian life and face disruptions caused by differences in gendered expectations within military and wider society. By design, this research focused on a limited number of female veterans' experiences as they left the RAF, allowing a hitherto underexplored veteran cohort to be better understood.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 2","pages":"594-609"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.70062","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146176627","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}
Clare Cook, Jamie L. Callahan, Vicki Elsey, Thomas V. Pollet
{"title":"In Search of a Professional Image: How Women Comedians Engage Gender in Their Work","authors":"Clare Cook, Jamie L. Callahan, Vicki Elsey, Thomas V. Pollet","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70067","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.70067","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Individuals who differ from what is typical in their occupation face a dilemma about how to incorporate their “ill-fitting” social characteristics into their professional image. This study investigates how women working in the male-dominated world of stand-up comedy present their gender and whether this evolves over times of social change. Our mixed-methods, longitudinal design utilized 540 performer profiles from 195 women comedians at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (The Fringe) from 2015 to 2022. We identified two distinct presentation styles: downplaying and displaying gender. We also found that comedians who downplayed gender were more consistent in their presentation than those who displayed gender and that the comedians themselves, rather than year, determined their style. Our work offers three key contributions. First, it confirms the distinction between downplaying and displaying gender but adds that these concepts are enduring over time, and in an under-researched career. Second, it provides nuance to Cunningham and Obodaru's pursuit of the aspirational self theory, showing that women who are promotion-focused with their careers may take either a promotion- or prevention-oriented approach to how they present gender. Displaying gender was consistent with a promotion-orientation while downplaying gender was prevention-oriented. Finally, it extends understanding of professional image by showing that individual characteristics, as opposed to situational context, are likely to determine gender presentation and that the aesthetic labor in comedy may be geared toward achieving a different style to what is dominant in other areas of the performing arts.</p>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 2","pages":"583-593"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gwao.70067","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146155133","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":"Affective Temporalities When Making It Within Academia. The Case of Early Career Female Scholars in STEM","authors":"Mante Vertelyte","doi":"10.1111/gwao.70068","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gwao.70068","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Only few women <i>make it to</i> permanent academic positions in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). While working under temporary contracts, early career scientists have to fulfill a complex set of tasks in a limited amount of time and develop their CVs to compete for a permanent position. Based on interviews with early career female scientists working in the field of astrophysics at Danish universities, the article examines the affective mattering of time in their aspirations of pursuing academic positions in STEM. Specifically, through the women's narratives around the practice and notion of “having time with the telescope,” this article analyses how intensities around telescope time affectively shape the routines of academic work and future aspirations. Asking how time comes to affectively matter in the experiences of early career female astrophysicists, the article engages with feminist new materialism and affect theory. The analysis shows how telescope time becomes an affective temporal intensity that simultaneously entangles hopes and fears for the future, the embodied gendered (im)possibilities of <i>making it</i> within academia, and temporal discrepancies between fixed-term academic contracts and the infinitude of scientific goals and aspirations.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48128,"journal":{"name":"Gender Work and Organization","volume":"33 2","pages":"572-582"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146162712","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}