Constructing a career: women architects at work

Caven, V

doi:10.1108/13620430410550763

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“…Accordingly, researchers (Grant‐Vallone & Ensher, ; Valcour & Ladge, ) have suggested that professional women are constructing a career model that includes periods of unemployment and part‐time work throughout their child‐bearing years. Such accommodations are consistent with a protean career orientation that allows professional women to work towards career success that coincides with their personal values (Cabrera, ; Caven, ).…”

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Facilitating successful re-entries in the United States: Training and development for women returners

Greer

2013

New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development

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Women returners are women who leave the paid workforce for a period of time following the birth of their child(ren) and subsequently seek to return to paid employment. As women returners attempt to re‐enter the workforce, many of them are in need of updating their skills or re‐training in a new set of skills. In this study, the training and development needs of women returners were examined. The Andragogy in Practice model was used to frame the study and construct a learner analysis of women returners. Implications for designing and implementing training and development programs for women returners in the United States are discussed.

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Facilitating successful re-entries in the United States: Training and development for women returners

Greer

2013

New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development

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“…Much of the empirical work examining female architects' under-representation has focussed on the impact that having a child has on a woman's career (Caven, 2005, deGraft Johnson et al, 2005Fowler and Wilson, 2004), with much appearing to assume that men and women are two distinct homogeneous groups. In reality, there are multiple masculinities, specifically hegemonic masculinities and subordinate masculinities (Collinson and Hearn, 1994).…”

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“…Architects work in the construction industry, a sector which exhibits a highly masculine working environment where women (Ness, 2012, Watts, 2007 and marginalised men (Denisson, 2010) experience difficulties participating fully in the labour market. Despite a body of literature identifying the difficulties faced by women architects (Caven, 2005;Fowler andWilson, 2004, deGraft Johnson et al, 2005), male architects remain unexamined. Understanding masculinities can develop gender research beyond essentialist approaches that emphasise male and female.…”

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Gender in the UK architectural profession: (re)producing and challenging hegemonic masculinity

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Dainty

Ison

2014

Work, Employment and Society

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Architecture represents a creative, high profile and influential profession and yet remains undertheorized from a gender perspective. This article examines how gender is (re)produced in architecture, a profession that remains strangely under-researched given its status and position. The empirical work advances the theoretical concept of hegemonic masculinity via an analysis of gendered working practices and the agency of individuals through resistance and complicity with these norms. It reveals how architectural practice relies on long working hours, homosocial behaviour and creative control. However, whereas women perform their gender in ways which reproduce such gendered norms, white, heterosexual, middle class men can transgress them to challenge aspects of practice culture. This has significant implications for understanding the ways in which hegemonic masculinities are reproduced within creative workplaces.

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“…Empirical studies show that the problems faced by women in construction are starting to be understood (Caven, Navarro Astor & Diop, 2012), albeit mainly from the multiple and varied perspectives of women in the industry (c.f., Caven, 2004Caven, , 2006Fowler & Wilson, 2004;Greed, 2006). Analyses focusing on institutions and discourse and their role in policy outcomes are notable by their absence.…”

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‘Black Boxes’ and ‘fracture points’: the regulation of gender equality in the UK and French construction industries

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2017

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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Gender equality was a founding principle of the European Union (EU) and has remained on its policy agenda ever since, yet delivery of policy goals has been uneven across countries and economic sectors. We draw on theoretical and empirical literatures from human resource management and policy science to explore EU gender equality initiatives and their enactment within one sector which has seen virtually no improvements in gender-based employment equality: construction. To help understand the possible reasons for this, we compare practice and experiences in two countries; the UK and France. In both, the construction industry remains resolutely male-dominated, with women employed primarily in support and administrative roles. We deploy the concept of Europeanisation, to provide an analytical framework to understand the potential gaps between policy goals and onthe-ground implementation, whilst a comparative approach allows us to see if different national approaches to EU policy implementation can help explain these policy failures. We identify three potential 'fracture points' where breaks in policy transmission and enactment may occur: between the EU and national levels; between the national and industry levels; and within the industry itself. We identify areas for further research, where unpacking the 'Black Boxes' of policy development and industry practices, can help more effective policy-targeting to deliver policy goals on gender equality.

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Constructing a career: women architects at work

Cited by 24 publications

References 35 publications

Facilitating successful re-entries in the United States: Training and development for women returners

Facilitating successful re-entries in the United States: Training and development for women returners

Gender in the UK architectural profession: (re)producing and challenging hegemonic masculinity

‘Black Boxes’ and ‘fracture points’: the regulation of gender equality in the UK and French construction industries

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