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- Alvesson, Mats, et al.
(författare)
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Questioning the notion of feminine leadership
- 2000
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : Wiley. - 1468-0432 .- 0968-6673. ; 7:3, s. 144-157
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Traditionally, leadership has been equated with masculinity. Managerial jobs, at least in business and on senior levels, have been defined as a matter of instrumentality, autonomy, result-orientation, etc. something which is not particularly much in line with what is broadly assumed to be typical for females. Today, however, there seems to be a broad interest in leadership being more participatory, non-hierarchical, flexible and group-oriented. These new ideas on leadership are often seen by students of gender as indicating a feminine orientation. This article argues that it is necessary to critically discuss the whole idea of gender labelling leadership as masculine or feminine and suggests that we should be very careful and potentially aware of the unfortunate consequences when we use gender labels. Constructing leadership as feminine may be of some value as a contrast to conventional ideas on leadership and management but may also create a misleading impression of women's orientation to leadership as well as reproducing stereotypes and the traditional gender division of labour.
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- Elg, Ulf, et al.
(författare)
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The Inclusion of Female PhD Students in Academia: A Case Study of a Swedish University Department
- 2003
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : Blackwell Publishing. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 10:2, s. 154-174
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article introduces a framework for understanding women's entry into the academic world and how it interacts with internal departmental structures and practices. It presents three specific strategies applied by a group of women to gain a doctorate and acceptance in their department. Few previous studies have stressed women's strategies to cope with the organizational setting in academia. The article draws on previous research on women in academia and how organizational characteristics influence women's careers. It is based on a case study of a Swedish university department. Sweden is often recognized for creating favourable working conditions for women. Yet the Swedish academic world is very male-dominated at the top and even the medium level. It is also more common than in many other Western countries that academics stay on at the department where they graduated. Therefore, a PhD is often a first step in a career within that department.
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- Eriksson-Zetterquist, Ulla, 1967, et al.
(författare)
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Overcoming the glass barriers: Reflection and action in the “Women to the top” programme
- 2008
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : Wiley. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 15:2, s. 133-160
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Numerous equality programmes have been launched with the aim of promoting a more gender equal work life, yet little substantial action has been reported. This article presents a study of the Women to the Top programme in Sweden, supported by the European Union (EU) and aimed at promoting more women into top management positions. The research suggests that large-scale projects assembling such heterogeneous actors as industry representatives, politicians and scholars tend to generate further reflection and discussion rather than promoting adequate and highly needed action. Drawing upon Brunsson's distinction between action rationality and decision rationality, the relatively modest effects of large-scale equality programmes are examined, not in terms of a lack of commitment or competence on the part of the participants but as a matter of the disjunction between reflection and action. Reconciling reflection and action, that is, emphasizing not only reflection on gender inequality but also privileging various forms of practical action (such as new policies, the appointment of female managers, restructuring gendered wage inequalities or new recruitment procedures), is therefore a top priority for policymakers desiring more substantial changes in the gendered outline of industry.
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- Jonnergård, Karin, et al.
(författare)
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Performance evaluations as gender barriers in professional organizations : A study of auditing firms
- 2010
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : Wiley. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 17:6, s. 721-749
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Gendering processes often take the form of organizational subtexts, that is, seemingly gender-neutral practices that have gender implications. The purpose of this article is to study performance evaluations, which, based on management by objectives systems, may appear neutral, but tend to be based on male norms of what is regarded as good performance. We analysed the careers and performance evaluations of 391 newly licenced Swedish auditors, using an open-ended question survey. In this industry 50 per cent of new employees and 92 per cent of partners are men. Even in the early stages of their careers, there are notable differences between women and men. The women achieved less and show lower career ambitions and expectations as well as greater intentions to leave the auditing industry. Performance evaluations are also perceived differently, men focusing on what is evaluated (reflecting the perceptions of those at higher hierarchical levels) and women focusing on who does the evaluating and how.
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- Muhr, Sara Louise
(författare)
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Caught in the Gendered Machine – on the Masculine and Feminine in Cyborg Leadership
- 2011
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : Wiley. - 1468-0432 .- 0968-6673. ; 18:3, s. 337-357
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Many studies have shown that female managers have to work harder than men to gain recognition, and that this often leads top female managers away from the leadership style characterized by soft skills and emotional understanding. Instead, another characterization can be seen; that of tough gendered machines fighting their way to the top - cyborgs. This article uses Haraway's metaphor of the cyborg to explore the way in which a top female manger tries to fight for gender equality by employing masculine strategies with a female body. However, contrary to the usual argument that women become masculinized leaders, the article argues for a reading in which female leadership becomes both excessively masculine and excessively feminine, challenging simplified readings of gendered leadership. In the case-study, this leads to a situation where high-performance behaviour from a top female leader in effect ends up reinforcing gender inequality.
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- Nordenmark, Mikael
(författare)
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Multiple social roles - a resource or a burden : Is it possible for men and women to combine paid work with family life in a satisfactory way?
- 2002
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Ingår i: Gender, Work & Organization. - : Wiley. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 9:2, s. 125-145
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this article is to study whether multiple social roles can be seen as a resource or a burden, or in other words, if a strong engagement in both paid work and family life is a positive or negative experience for men and women respectively. The main data used is a data set from Statistics Sweden, the so-called ULF (The study of living conditions), in which nearly 30 000 randomly selected individuals were interviewed. When analysing how the combined family and labour market situation is related to the number of preferred working hours and psychological distress of individuals, the results show that it is primarily cohabiting women with children who work more than 40 hours per week, that want to reduce their working hours. However, the distress level is not relatively high for this category. Results indicating that many women, and some men, who have multiple social roles express a wish to reduce their working hours, but this does not necessarily mean that the levels of distress are higher for these groups. This may be a result of the fact that the alternative resources provided by multiple social roles in some sense outweigh the stressful effects that double demands have on psychological distress.
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- Andersson Bäck, Monica, 1969
(författare)
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Nurses’ Pay formation in Swedish Health Call Centres: the influence of union organization, economic and professional factors.
- 2009
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Ingår i: Gender, work and organization. - : Wiley. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 16:5, s. 579-599
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article analyses the pay formation process for nurses in the new organizational form of health call centres (HCCs) in Sweden. It finds that HCC tele-nurses have gained a better labour market position than both the average call centre employees in other sectors and some other nurses. This specialization of the nursing occupation may thus have importance for gendered pay formation in public healthcare. In evaluating pay formation, the article draws on case studies carried out by the author. It analyses the shift from centralized bargaining towards more decentralized and individualized pay formation and the importance of union organization, economic and professional factors that have contributed to relatively higher pay for these workers. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications of this process for the gender pay gap in the state sector and limitations to future gains.
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- Barry, Jim, et al.
(författare)
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Social movement, action and change : the influence of women's movements on city government in Mumbai and London
- 2004
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : Wiley. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 11:2, s. 143-162
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article reports on a research investigation into gender and local government in Mumbai in India and London in England. In both these cities female representation at the political level stands at around one third, achieved in London slowly in recent years and in Mumbai more rapidly through the adoption of a quota, or seat reservation system, implemented in 1992. In considering the experience of the women concerned it is argued that their presence and aspirations have been influenced through the networks of their respective women's movements, operating through civil society and the local state. In considering the ways in which they organize and manage the duties of office and their gendered identities, as well as in their focus on the most disadvantaged in their communities and in their dealings with others, the part played by social movements in influencing change is examined.
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- Clark, Heather, et al.
(författare)
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Work Psychology, Women and Stress: Silence, Identity and the Boundaries of Conventional Wisdom
- 1996
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : Wiley. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 3:2, s. 65-77
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Discusses the literature on women & organizational/workplace stress & then considers some of its assumptions, limitations, & silences. It is suggested that not all women share identical intersts & that different forms of resistance formulated by women, from individual action to social support networks, are required to address workplace stress. Contrast is drawn between an approach derived from a politics of identity rooted in feminist theory & the conventional approach of work psychologists characterized by individual/social roles & an androgynous approach initiated from above.
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- Dahlkild-Öhman, Gunilla, et al.
(författare)
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Inequality regimes and men’s positions in social work
- 2013
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : Wiley. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 20:1, s. 85-99
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this article is to contribute to the exploration of men’s positions in professions numerically dominated by women through an in depth analysis of the gendering practices in groups of social workers. The empirical material consists of interviews with three work groups in Sweden, each with one man and several women as members. The analysis focuses upon gendering practices in the interview setting. It shows how the positions occupied by the men in the sample confirm or undermine constructions of masculinity as dominance. Furthermore, it is argued that to fully understand men’s positions in these groups the analysis needs take other forms of inequality into account in addition to gender. It is shown that in the empirical cases under scrutiny men’s positions are shaped by regimes of inequality where age and gender relations, as well as notions of professional experience, are interconnected.
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- Fransson, Susanne, et al.
(författare)
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Some Notes on Workplace Equality Renewal in the Swedish Labour Market
- 2006
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : Blackwell Publishing. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 13:6, s. 606-620
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In 2001, Swedish authorities imposed a new obligation upon all firms with ten or more employees to undertake annual wage surveys, ‘workplace equality audits’ in which it is possible to ascertain, remedy and prevent unwarranted wage differentials and other unfair employment terms between men and women. An important implication of the new system, called ‘workplace equality renewal’ (självsanering), is that, at the level of the firm all Swedish employers must explain what they mean by work of ‘equal value’ as opposed to ‘different value’. This article discusses the practical pros and cons of the new system, and considers how the surveys can be used in research into the present state of gendered work division. A main finding is that the introduction of this new legislation in the long run might change the Swedish industrial relations system as well as the preconditions for many companies’ human resource management policies. Yet, neither the governmental agencies involved nor the parties’ confederate organizations have been able to clarify what the issue is really about to the single, small business employer or to the local trade union branches. Many employers find any interference, whatever it may be, threatening and trade unions have not realized the potentialities of the system from an employee perspective, potentialities connected to the fact that companies are now more or less forced to make transparent their wage policies at large.
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- Giritli Nygren, Katarina, 1971-
(författare)
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Narratives of ICT and organizational change in public administration
- 2012
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : Wiley. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 19:6, s. 615-630
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the last decade the implementation of computerized technology and advanced information systems in public administration has gathered speed. The purpose of this article is to explore the ways in which these changes might be gendered by analysing different narratives of digitalization and organizational change in public administration. The empirical findings indicate that resistance to information and communication technology is explained away by managers as reflecting women's low computer maturity, while the narratives of the case-workers themselves reflect their resistance to deskilling and simplified work specifications, as well as their experience of a shift in the work object — from working with human beings to working with electronic information. The findings indicate that the increased use of information technology genders resistance to degradation as a feminized fear of technology and low computer maturity.
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- Grönlund, Anne, 1962-
(författare)
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More control, less conflict? : job demand-control, gender and work-family conflict
- 2007
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : Blackwell Publishing. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 14:5, s. 476-497
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The connection between working hours and work-to-family conflict has been established in a number of studies. However, it seems what is important is not only the quantity of work but also its quality, as captured by the job demand–control model. Survey data from 800 Swedish employees show that job demands spill over negatively into family life, while job control reduces work-to-family conflict. Interestingly, women in jobs with high demands and high control — regarded as the prototype for modern, flexible work life — do not experience more work-to-family conflict than men, even when working the same hours. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- Hjalmarsson, Marie, 1961-
(författare)
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New technology in home help services : A tool for support or an instrument of subordination?
- 2009
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : Wiley-Blackwell. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 16:3, s. 368-384
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The implementation of information and communication technologies (ICT) is in line with a general transformation of the work of home help services in Sweden. One strong motivation behind the introduction of new technology was to change the ways of working towards greater efficiency in order to reduce costs and at the same time raise the value of care-giving work. This article discusses the introduction of ICT in home help services as a part of the increasing rationalization of care-giving work and its consequences for the workers. The results of an ethnographic study of the introduction of hand-held computers in a working team in home help services in Sweden shows that the motives for the implementation of ICT run counter to the basic norms that are supposed to govern care-giving work. The technology participates in reproducing the subordinate position of care-giving work as well as that of the front-line workers. The workers act according to personal decision-making ability and show a form of limited resistance to the technology while, at the same time, taking part in their own subordination. © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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- Holgersson, Charlotte, 1970-
(författare)
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Recruiting Managing Directors : Doing Homosociality
- 2013
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : Wiley-Blackwell. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 20:4, s. 454-466
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines homosociality in the context of top management recruitment in Sweden, drawing on interviews with chairmen of the board and three recruitments of managing directors. The analysis suggests that homosociality is done through two main practices: (re)defining competence and doing hierarchy, resulting in a preference for certain men and the exclusion of women. It is argued that the preference of men can be understood as an unreflexive practice, which can explain why many Swedish male managers are aware of the adverse conditions women face and claim to be pro-equality but continue to recruit men for management positions. In light of this, it is also argued that homosociality and gender discrimination can be seen as two sides of the same coin.
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- Jansson, Maria, et al.
(författare)
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Old dreams, new means : an exploration of visions and situated knowledge in information technology
- 2007
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : Wiley. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 14:4, s. 371-387
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this article is to explore the tensions and ambivalences of new and old technology and political visions of keeping viable, quality care and services for elderly citizens through the use of new information technologies. The visions of politicians and social service managers of keeping alive the welfare state and retaining its ability to offer quality care and services for elderly citizens are compared with the experiences of female care assistants and their expectations of technology. A feminist figure — the cyborg — will be used in this exploration. We consider how care assistants are integrated in networks of socio-technical relations between humans and non-humans, and the extent to which gender or asymmetrical power relations between women and men intervene in their stories.
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- Jonsson, Inger
(författare)
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Working Hours and Gender Equality : Examples from Care Work in the Swedish Public Sector
- 2011
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : Wiley. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 18:5, s. 508-527
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study addresses questions related to the double-edged character of part-time work by looking at the Swedish situation, with its large share of female part-time work as well as a high share of involuntary part-time employment among women. The discussion relates to the changing conditions in and ongoing modernization of the public sector - an important employer for women - with a focus on care work organized by the municipalities. The issue that is addressed is the part-time regime that characterizes these jobs and the likely consequences of a policy change on contracted working hours. This change has been brought about by concerns on the need to meet the growing demand for personnel in care work but also by a generally expressed dissatisfaction among the women who are employed part-time involuntarily. The attempt by several municipalities to introduce more full-time positions is a result of a government programme (2002-2005) aiming to reduce the problem with part-time unemployment. Based on the reports from that programme, this article explores the consequences of the ongoing remodelling of the working time regime, especially concerning gender equality.
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- Peterson, Helen
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Gendered Work Ideals in Swedish IT Firms : Valued and Not Valued Workers
- 2007
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - Oxford : Wiley. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 14:4, s. 333-348
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The analysis in this article draws on interviews with managers and employees in the Swedish IT consultant sector, a sector characterized by widespread redundancies in the first three years of the 21st century. The article suggests that the interviewees' distinction between and assessment of workers of value and workers without value to justify and explain these lay-offs, are permeated by stereotyped images of gendered qualities and reflect a gendered work ideal. As the interviewees argued, not everybody had the necessary and valued competence of an ideal consultant and those who failed to fulfil the requirements of an ideal consultant were subsequently laid off. Since the behaviour, qualities, technical skills and knowledge considered necessary for the effective and competent performance of an ideal IT consultant are associated with hegemonic masculinity, male qualities and men's experiences, these arguments justify the exclusion of women from this occupation.
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- Pullen, Alison, et al.
(författare)
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Sexual Spaces
- 2010
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : Wiley. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 17:1, s. 1-6
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- Thanem, Torkild
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Free At Last? Assembling, Producing and Organizing Sexual Spaces in Swedish Sex Education
- 2010
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : Wiley. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 17:1, s. 91-112
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article seeks to critically investigate the assembling, production and organization of female and male sexuality in contemporary Swedish sex education. The empirical focus is on booklets and leaflets published by the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education (the RFSU). Employing the concept of assemblages articulated by Deleuze and Guattari and rearticulated in social, organizational and feminist theorizing, the article examines how the RFSU material assembles, produces and organizes the sexual spaces of female and male embodiment (bodily zones, passages, surfaces, interiors, extensions, orifices and cavities) by promoting particular sexual practices. While the RFSU assemblages may seem to express a celebratory attitude towards sexual diversity, freedom and enjoyment, the article argues that the extent to which they undo a dichotomous and stereotypical organization of sexuality and gender is limited. Finally, the article discusses what implications this may have for organization theory.
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- Tienari, Janne, et al.
(författare)
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Gender and national identity constructions in the cross-border merger context
- 2005
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : Wiley. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 12:3, s. 217-241
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article we explore ways in which vertical gender inequality is accomplished in discourse in the context of a recent chain of cross-border mergers and acquisitions that resulted in the formation of a multinational Nordic company. We analyse social interactions of 'doing' gender in interviews with male senior executives from Denmark, Finland and Sweden. We argue that their explanations for the absence of women in the top echelons of the company serve to distance vertical gender inequality. The main contribution of the article is an analysis of how national identities are discursively (re)constructed in such distancing. New insights are offered to studying gender in multinationals with a cross-cultural team of researchers. Our study sheds light on how gender intersects with nationality in shaping the multinational organization and the identities of male executives in globalizing business.
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- Tienari, Janne, et al.
(författare)
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Gender, Management and Market Discourse : The Case of Gender Quotas in the Swedish and Finnish Media
- 2009
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : Wiley. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 16:4, s. 501-521
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article we present a comparative study of media texts in Sweden and Finland, two societies traditionally viewed as Nordic welfare states. Focusing on the controversial question of introducing gender-based quotas on the boards of companies, we analyse how representations of gender and management are affected in Sweden and Finland by contemporary market discourse. We argue that market discourse takes different forms in the two societal contexts and that the space for questioning and criticizing it from a gender equality perspective remains different. Our analysis thus complements recent contributions stressing that both societal particularities and transnational processes must be considered in studies of gender and management (Calas and Smircich, 2006).
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- Abdellatif, Amal, et al.
(författare)
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Breaking the mold: Working through our differences to vocalize the sound of change
- 2021
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : Wiley-Blackwell. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 28:5, s. 1956-1979
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper orchestrates alterethnographical reflections in which we, women, polyphonically document, celebrate and vocalize the sound of change. This change is represented in Kamala Harris's appointment as the first woman, woman of color, and South Asian American as the US Vice President, breaking new boundaries of political leadership, and harvesting new gains for women in leadership and power more broadly. With feminist awareness and curiosity, we organize and mobilize individual texts into a multivocal paper as a way to write solidarity between women. Recognizing our intersectional differences, and power differentials inherent in our different positions in academic hierarchies, we unite to write about our collective concerns regarding gendered, racialised, classed social relations. Coming together across intersectional differences in a writing community has been a vehicle to speak, relate, share, and voice our feelings and thoughts to document this historic moment and build a momentum to fulfill our hopes for social change. As feminists, we accept our responsibility to make this history written, rather than manipulated or erased, by breaking the mold in the form of multi-layered embodied texts to expand writing and doing research differently through re/writing otherness.
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- Ahonen, Pasi, et al.
(författare)
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Writing resistance together
- 2020
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 27:4, s. 447-470
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This piece of writing is a joint initiative by the participants in the Gender, Work and Organization writing workshop organized in Helsinki, Finland, in June 2019. This is a particular form of writing differently. We engage in collective writing and embody what it means to write resistance to established academic practices and conventions together. This is a form of emancipatory initiative where we care for each other as writers and as human beings. There are many author voices and we aim to keep the text open and dialogical. As such, this piece of writing is about suppressed thoughts and feelings that our collective picket line allows us to express. In order to maintain the open-ended nature of the text, and perhaps also to retain some 'dirtiness' that is essential to writing, the article has not been language checked throughout by a native speaker of English.
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- Alexandersson, Anna, et al.
(författare)
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Girl bosses, punk poodles, and pink smoothies : Girlhood as Enterprising Femininity
- 2021
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 28:1, s. 416-438
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this paper is to add to the broader field of feminist organization and entrepreneurship scholarship by introducing and theorizing girlhood as a distinct enterprising femininity. More specifically, we investigate how girlhood, now enjoying a prominent role in commercial culture, impacts the relationship between enterprising self and femininity due to girlhood's many non-entrepreneurial features. We draw on the scholarship from the field of cultural studies to present the core politico-aesthetical categories, used to express girlhood as a distinct form of femininity. Empirically, we present and analyze an illustrative case of two large women-only professional networks that use girlhood and enterprising as their core message to their audiences. Our contributions render visible and provide a theoretical framework for studying girlhood as enterprising femininity, and add to the theorization of gendered and intersectional tensions and struggles between the market pressures to conform to the prevailing ideals of individualized success and the political ambition to challenge the status quo. More so, our theorization of girlhood as enterprising femininity allows us to raise question of what facets of femininity remain excluded - and thus in need of further theorization and critical feminist interventions - within the economic domain.
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- Alvinius, Aida, Docent, 1979-, et al.
(författare)
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Silence-breaking butterfly effect : Resistance Towards the Military Within #MeToo
- 2019
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Inc.. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 26:9, s. 1255-1270
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Systemic violence against women in the military has existed for decades, but they have mostly refrained from public resistance. However, in the context of the #Metoo‐movement in Sweden, 1768 women published a call for an end to violence and sexual harassment in the military. We analyze this call as a public resistance effort against the military and find that #Metoo is: 1) challenging the norms of the hyper‐masculine military organization, making resistance towards it visible, and 2) resisting the practices of sexual harassment and lack of responsibility in the military organization. The military organization is questioned when it comes to norms and practices, but there are variations in whether the social order of the military is truly challenged. Still, the call highlights the fragmentation of this “last bastion of masculinity”. More research is needed on the erosion of the militarized norms and practices and the effects of the call.
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- Arora Jonsson, Seema
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Disciplining Gender in Environmental Organizations: The Texts and Practices of Gender Mainstreaming
- 2018
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : Wiley. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 25, s. 309-325
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Gender experts are being recruited and gender routinized in the everyday work of international environmental organizations today. To what extent do these changes open up spaces for reorienting sustainability debates in terms of normative commitments to promoting gender equality and justice? We explore this question by studying how gender is done in one such organization meant to work towards sustainability. We examine how work with gender is organized the experts employed and their possibilities to influence events as well as how gender is addressed in the texts produced in the course of organizational work. We find that while abstractions for a global audience may distance debates on sustainability from people on the ground, contrary to current thinking, the depoliticized and disciplined narrative on gender can also open up a space for counter discourses on gender by providing a platform from which to destabilize dominant debates on sustainability. We suggest that a close analysis of the shaping of global and official discourses on sustainability can provide insights into how we may interrupt discourses that re/produce inequalities.
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- Barthold, Charles, et al.
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An ecofeminist position in critical practice: Challenging corporate truth in the Anthropocene
- 2022
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : Wiley. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 29:6, s. 1796-1814
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Drawing on selected discourses of non-essentialist ecofeminism, this article proposes and substantiates an ecofeminist position. This distinct position is shown to bring with it a capacity to challenge widely uncontested, corporate-produced truths regarding the benefits and the legitimacy of certain commercial activities. Three historical cases inform the discussion: the fights led by Rachel Carson against dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, by Erin Brockovich against hexavalent chromium, and by Vandana Shiva against genetically modified organisms. Distinguishing characteristics of this emblematically individual and critical activist practice include that it is aimed at fighting environmental degradations; it originates from outrage; it is sustained by dedication and courage; and it combines pedagogy, politics, and ethics. We show how this practice may be understood by reference to acknowledged ecofeminist tenets and in particular with the advocating of a holistic, respectful association with all forms of life on Earth. This is in stark contradistinction to dualist, corporate positions of self-interested detachment from the environment, and a corresponding denial of the entanglement of the social and physical worlds. We show how such an ecofeminist position has been capable of disrupting both established corporate truths and the discursive power relationships attached to them; and how it engenders an imperative that corporations must confront and engage with the deliberate, anthropogenic consequences of their activities.
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- Beavan, Katie, et al.
(författare)
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Changing writing/writing for change
- 2021
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 28:2, s. 449-455
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The political potential of unconventional and even transgressive forms of writing in management and organization studies has been invigorated in recent years through an explicit connection with feminist theories, ideas, and practices. The results have been a new wave of scholarship that brings together the personal, the political, and the theoretical as a means to intervene in masculine orthodoxy of organizational writing. This intervention seeks to change what and how we understand organizational phenomena, with an ultimate goal of transforming practice toward a more equal and egalitarian future. We introduce five papers that responded to a call to explore the intersections between change and academic writing, as well as an exploration of alternatives to dominant masculine academic writing styles. Such writing, we aver, might facilitate change not just in the academy, but also in organizations and by extension, society.
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- Berglund, Karin, et al.
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Women's entrepreneurship, neoliberalism and economic justice in the postfeminist era : a discourse analysis of policy change in Sweden
- 2018
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 25:5, s. 531-556
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Since the early 1990s, there has been investment in women's entrepreneurship policy (WEP) in Sweden, which continued until 2015. During the same period, Sweden assumed neoliberal policies that profoundly changed the position of women within the world of work and business. The goals for WEP changed as a result, from entrepreneurship as a way to create a more equal society, to the goal of unleashing women's entrepreneurial potential so they can contribute to economic growth. To better understand this shift we approach WEP as a neoliberal governmentality which offers women 'entrepreneurial' or 'postfeminist' subject positions. The analysis is inspired by political theorist Nancy Fraser who theorized the change as the displacement of socioeconomic redistribution in favour of cultural recognition, or identity politics. We use Fraser's concepts in a discourse analysis of Swedish WEP over two decades, identifying two distinct discourses and three discursive displacements. Whilst WEP initially gave precedence to a radical feminist discourse that called for women's collective action, this was replaced by a postfeminist neoliberal discourse that encouraged individual women to assume an entrepreneurial persona, start their own business, compete in the marketplace and contribute to economic growth. The result was the continued subordination of women business owners, but it also obscured or rendered structural problems/solutions, and collective feminist action, irrelevant.
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- Brodin, Helene, et al.
(författare)
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Doing business or leading care work? Intersections of gender, ethnicity and profession in home care entrepreneurship in Sweden
- 2019
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : Wiley. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 26:11, s. 1640-1657
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article critically explores assumptions underpinning Swedish eldercare policies that introducing market practices in publicly funded eldercare services advances women's entrepreneurship. We argue that gendered privileges and disadvantages are being recreated on tax-funded home care markets; furthermore, gendered inequalities intersect with ethnicity and profession in management of small-scale care companies, dealings with authorities governing home care services and standards for home care work. However, we find that the salience of categories depends on the context in which they emerge. While gender and profession are dominant in management, gender and ethnicity influence interactions with authorities. Only in standards for home care work do all categories simultaneously shape the business approaches of care entrepreneurs. Our analysis, based on data on size and growth of home care companies and interviews with small-scale care entrepreneurs, suggests that regulations and practices privilege big companies and care entrepreneurs who echo the white, masculine gendering of entrepreneurship as 'doing business' and disadvantage small-scale entrepreneurs focusing on leading care work to produce quality care.
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- Cozza, Michela, 1978-, et al.
(författare)
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COVID-19 as a breakdown in the texture of social practices
- 2021
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : WILEY. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 28:S1, s. 190-208
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A lot of things need to be repaired and a lot of relationships are in need of a knowledgeable mending. Can we start to talk/write about them? This invitation - sent by one of the authors to the others - led us, as feminist women in academia, to join together in an experimental writing about the effects of COVID-19 on daily social practices and on potential (and innovative) ways for repairing work in different fields of social organization. By diffractively intertwining our embodied experiences of becoming together-with Others, we foreground a multiplicity of repair (care) practices COVID-19 is making visible. Echoing one another, we take a stand and say that we need to prevent the future from becoming the past. We are not going back to the past; our society has already changed and there is a need to cope with innovation and repairing practices that do not reproduce the past.
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- Czarniawska, Barbara, 1948
(författare)
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Joan in my life
- 2019
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Ingår i: Gender Work and Organization. - : Wiley. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 26:12, s. 1676-1678
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Doerr, Katherine
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"Flying under the radar" : Postfeminism and teaching in academic science
- 2024
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 31:3, s. 710-726
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Neoliberal academia is marked by vertical and horizontal gender segregation, and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) is a particularly concerning case. Women with PhDs are underrepresented, and when they do participate, they are more likely than men to be in teaching-intensive roles. Beyond equality concerns, this is problematic because when women are interpreters rather than producers of disciplinary knowledge, the STEM enterprise remains gender-biased. Using data from a 2-year ethnography with physical science faculty in teaching-intensive roles, this paper argues that gender inequity is reproduced through postfeminist discourses of work-life balance. Participants who are mothers say they are flying under the radar at work. They self-surveille as they engage in both paid labor as university educators and unpaid carework at home. Importantly, when participants challenge hegemonic gender norms, they attract the radar's attention and are sanctioned. This study contributes to a growing understanding of how and why women are marginalized in STEM careers. Women with science PhDs fulfill their university's teaching mission with minimal support for the implied compensation of work-life balance, leaving the institutional structures which privilege men's participation in STEM research intact.
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- Edwards, Michaela, et al.
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‘I am not a Gentleman academic’ : Telling our truths of micro-coercive control and gaslighting in Business Schools using ‘Faction’
- 2022
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : Wiley. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper draws from our own experiences of sexism within Business Schools to bring attention to the effects of the operation of a highly masculinized, white, cis-gendered, and patriarchal culture, whether enacted by men or women, and to how we come to be silenced within it. Our work reflects on intersectional issues of race, health (mental and physical), and care-work, using faction built from six paired interviews to tell a truth we feel unable to tell individually. This piece highlights the real fear of repercussions that still persist for female academics, and uses the acts of collecting data and writing differently to offer the authors a safe space in which to resist both overt and structural sexism in Business Schools. It highlights the need to take seriously those subtleties of sexism that we are often expected to put up with, those difficult-to-name aspects of our working lives that leave us feeling it would be "silly" to complain and act as a form of micro-coercive control over our lives. We operationalize our collective voice as a form of activism in the academy that is situated within our individual silences.
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- Ericson, Mathias, 1976
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Gendering risk and vulnerability: Tensions and conflicting views in crisis preparedness work in Sweden
- 2020
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Ingår i: Gender Work and Organization. - : Wiley. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 27:6, s. 1308-1320
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Previous studies suggest that the integration of civil protection, crisis management and the machinery of risk assessment lies at the heart of current securitization thereby constituting a shift in focus from war and military operations to all-risk perspectives. This article explores how these processes of integration intersect with gendered power dynamics at a practical level, by focusing on tensions and conflicting views on how this work should be organized and understood. The article is based on a study of professionals who analyse risks and vulnerability at a local and regional level in Sweden. The material consists of observations and interviews. The analysis shows that although these professionals' work is contrasted to masculine-coded operative professions, it seems to be the case that masculine-coded approaches and forms of expertise are given priority. This is reproduced through the creation of an aura of neutrality and an attitude towards 'getting the job done'.
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- Ericsson, Daniel, 1967-, et al.
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Alterethnography : reading and writing otherness in organizations
- 2020
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 27:6, s. 1402-1417
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Inspired by the alternative ethnographic tradition, the aim of this article is to contribute with an approach to organizational ethnography informed by the radical imperative to encounter and understand the Other in his/her complex otherness and difference. The approach is conceptualized in terms of alterethnography and it is outlined as a way of doing research/writing for change at odds with dominant patriarchal scientific writing orders. Illustrated by a study of creativity, written in the form of an academic postmodern detective novel fiction, alterethnography is envisioned as uncontained and disruptive, unpatriarchal and disconformist: it is an approach that transgresses the boundaries of the ego, striving to embrace otherness as togetherness.
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| 44. |
- Erikson, Josefina, 1979-
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A special fund for gender equality? : Institutional constraints and gendered consequences in Swedish collective bargaining
- 2021
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 28:4, s. 1379-1397
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sweden is often described as one of the world’s most gender-equal societies, but the gender pay gap nevertheless remains large. In 2007, a special gender-equality fund that targeted women workers was successfully implemented in the collective bargaining agreement. Although it decreased the gender pay gap, it was controversial and has never been employed since. The aim of this article is to increase knowledge concerning the conditions for such “gender-equality bargaining†through a detailed empirical case study. An in-depth study of the bargaining process casts light on how the institutional features of bargaining have changed after 2007 in a way that significantly restricts further attempts to make relative wage changes in gender-segregated labor markets. The findings indicate that increased employer coordination and a strong industry norm appear to hinder gender-equality initiatives.
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- Forsberg Kankkunen, Tina, 1969-
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Access to networks in genderized contexts : the construction of hierarchical networks and inequalities in feminized, caring and masculinized, technical occupations
- 2014
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : Wiley. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 21:4, s. 340-352
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article aims to contribute knowledge on how access to hierarchical networks of communication is constructed through organizational contexts associated with the gendered nature of feminized, caring work and masculinized, technical work, respectively. The article is based on interviews with 43 middle managers. Both men and women in male-dominated technical occupations and female-dominated caring occupations were interviewed. Eight interviews with politicians and strategic managers were also carried out. The results show that middle managers' access to hierarchical networks differs between feminized and masculinized contexts; hierarchical networks between organizational levels are common in male-dominated technical jobs, while such networks are almost non-existent in female-dominated caring occupations. The results illustrate how organizational conditions follow the gender segregation in organizations and the labour market and, further, how these contexts shape men's and women's access to hierarchical networks. The results also illustrate how the patterns of networks create and reproduce inequalities in sex-segregated organizations.
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- Gherardi, Silvia
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If we practice posthumanist research, do we need 'gender' any longer?
- 2019
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : WILEY. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 26:1, s. 40-53
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article offers a reflection around the question of 'do we need 'gender' any longer?' In taking up this problem and inspired by the way in which postqualitative inquiry has opened a conversation with Deleuzian philosophy and formulated a 'concept as/instead of method' line of thought, I wonder whether new images of thought might give the concept of gender 'the forces it needs to return to life' or the forces to abandon it. I propose four different images that might provoke the desire to experiment with a new image of thought in relation to the problem: a vegetal mode of thought, a musical mode, a fleshy mode as labiaplasty, a nonliving mode. This choice is connected to the dualities they target: the human/vegetal living world, the rational/artistic production of knowledge, the dis-embodied/corporeal being in the world, the life/nonlife hierarchization. Each way of thinking of 'gender' stages, enacts, performs a different material reality of the concept that shifts the focus from linguistic representations to discursive practices. Hence, if gender has become a dominant discourse, it may be that positive repetition of this discourse might become a way of opening a new site inside it, by de-territorializing it and re-territorializing it otherwise.
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- Granberg, Magnus, et al.
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Paradoxes of Anti-austerity Protest : Matters of Neoliberalism, Gender, and Subjectivity in a Case of Collective Resignation
- 2017
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : Wiley. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 24:1, s. 56-68
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article analyses an episode of collective resignation. Carried out mainly by specialist nurses, this is a proliferating form of worker protest in Sweden that poses a challenge to austerity policy and emerges in a specific industrial-relations context. Mobilizing for collective resignation, activist nurses navigate terrains of neoliberal governance, marketization and flexible labour-market dynamics. The collective resignation is also a form of action underpinned by a discourse of gender equality. Our analysis, which attends to the co-emergence of gendering and subject formation in the narratives of a group of activists and to the use of gender-equality rhetoric in framing collective action, shows how opportunities for collective action arise that also restrain the exercise of agency. In this case, subject formation included contrasting nursing to tropes of archetypical militant workers and negotiating tensions between care and collective action. This involved reproducing and challenging established forms of gendering.
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- Grzelec, Anna
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Doing gender equality and undoing gender inequality—A practice theory perspective
- 2022
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : Wiley. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Many of the efforts made by organizations to deal with gender inequalities fail to have the desired impact. This is not only because these efforts are undermined by individu-als who disagree with them, nor because individuals do not perceive gender inequalities to be a problem. Rather, the issue is that gender equality practices may be embedded in an organizational context where other practices counteract gender equality. By means of a 17-month-long ethnographic study conducted at a technical university in Sweden, the interaction between gender equality practices and gender inequality practices has been identified. It is shown that gender equality practices are themselves based on either questionable assumptions (e.g., that increasing the number of women in senior roles will make a difference), or in an attempt to avoid blaming the victim, on reducing the salience of gendered categorization from which gendered inequali-ties can be adequately challenged. By focusing on the nexus of practices that move beyond equality work, two practices that undermine gender equality work have been identified, that is, a data-driven approach to change work and a pref-erence for simple solutions. The conclusion drawn alerts us to the fact that even practices that do not seem related to gender equality work can have an impact on the success or failure of the gender equality work of the organization. This in turn may imply that the institutionalized underpinnings of the organization need to be changed, for example, the belief that more data will help us to find more solutions, or that there are practices out there that can be implemented to wash away gender inequality.
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- Hansson, Karin, 1967-, et al.
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The significance of feminist infrastructure: #MeToo in the construction industry and the green industry in Sweden
- 2024
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Ingår i: Gender Work and Organization. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 31:3, s. 1092-1112
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- To better understand the interplay between digital activism and feminist infrastructure, this study investigates #MeToo activism in the Swedish construction industry and green industry. Both are industries in transition characterized by a dissonance between formal incentives, that encourage women and others to work in environments previously dominated by white men, and the informal power structures hosting a toxic masculinity. Based on media texts and interviews with key persons from the industries, the article situates #MeToo in a local context and shows how it was embedded in a supportive social, cultural, and technical infrastructure. In both industries, at the time of #MeToo this feminist infrastructure was already in place consisting of: an awareness of the problem of sexual harassment and abuse, knowledge of feminist explanatory models, established feminist online networks, and a supportive feminist culture, which together with widespread digital and feminist literacy became instrumental in the organization of the movement. Social media connected activists and created a critical mass by supporting the uniting of conflicting identity positions around shared differences. The established feminist infrastructure meant that the #MeToo activism, by articulating a widespread affective dissonance, pushed open doors that were already half open and forced them wide. This can explain some of the movement's success in Sweden.
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