Precarity, gender and care in the neoliberal academy

Ivancheva, Mariya; Lynch, Kathleen; Keating, Kathryn

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“…In other words, the accomplishment of the cooperative principles gave them the opportunity to control the work process, and through that implement the arrangements that favour their individual needs. The fact that women who take up flexible arrangements (i.e., part-time or temporary work) are at a disadvantage when it comes to taking up their former job, leading them to side-line their professional development [89], is also of primary importance. The women surveyed trust that the cooperative model offers them a friendly way to progress in a professional career while avoiding the dysfunctional effects from flexible work-life arrangements, such as underemployment, loss of pay, and long-term pension insecurity.…”

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Female Entrepreneurship: Can Cooperatives Contribute to Overcoming the Gender Gap? A Spanish First Step to Equality

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To date, entrepreneurship research has rarely focused on cooperatives. Recent research has suggested there is a positive association between cooperatives and women's entrepreneurial activity based on the assumption that this model is especially suitable for women's expectations and is favourable to their economic entrepreneurial development. However, few studies have empirically tested these propositions. This research, which analysed data from 264 Spanish cooperatives, confirms these findings. A mixed-methods approach was used. In the first stage, a Delphi study was run with 11 cooperative entrepreneurship experts to ask what factors may be decisive for women preferring a cooperative model. In the second stage, the factors derived from the Delphi study were used in a survey targeting female cooperative associates. The findings confirmed that female cooperative owners perceived this business model to be aligned with their values and best fit their work and lifestyle. This research contributes to the existing social entrepreneurship literature by providing empirical evidence from the Spanish context that highlights the role of women in cooperatives. The findings also emphasize the need for responsive policies and programmes that promote the cooperative model since it promotes female employment and women's entrepreneurial activity even in periods of economic austerity.Sustainability 2020, 12, 2478 2 of 17 women and men in terms of their levels of participation, access, rights, remuneration, or benefits (European Institute for Gender Equality, EIGE) [8][9][10]. In this vein, Dalkiran [11] recently highlighted the benefits women receive from the membership of cooperative organizations and concluded that female entrepreneurship through cooperatives can facilitate progress in meeting regional and national development targets. Dalkiran's contribution [11] should be considered a first step in a relatively young academic field-women's social entrepreneurship-which has been primarily based on case studies (see, for example, [12,13]). While his study targeted Turkish cooperatives, Dalkiran [11] argued that similar findings might be attained in other cultural settings. As shown, cooperatives can favour women's entrepreneurship as they are owned and self-managed by their workers. Furthermore, cooperatives might be welcoming organizations for women, as well as drivers of equality. If these organizations can act as a fast track for women to become entrepreneurs, they can be a springboard to female empowerment and economic development.Despite the growing popularity of cooperatives and their superior resistance to economic downturns [2,[14][15][16][17], entrepreneurial studies drawing on this business model remain scarce, and Carrasco [18] (p.62) urges future researchers "to better understand the contribution of cooperatives to enable the transformative change required for advancements on gender equality". This study addresses this research gap by examining the main factors that influence women's entrepreneurship by using coope...

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“…Additionally, there is scope to examine the content of impact cases and different configurations of impact case teams (including and beyond business and management studies). Positive exemplars of women who successfully overcame gendered structures (Bird, ) can inform our understanding of how women scholars excel despite inequality regimes (Ivancheva, Lynch, & Keating, ).…”

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The curious under‐representation of women impact case leaders: Can we disengender inequality regimes?

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Syed

2019

Gender Work & Organization

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Universities are increasingly expected to demonstrate the wider societal impacts of academic research. Yet women management scholars were disproportionately under‐represented in leading impact cases in the UK's REF (Research Excellence Framework) 2014. An analysis of 395 REF impact cases for business and management studies with an identifiable lead author revealed that only 25 per cent were led by women, of which 54 per cent were sole authored. Based on 12 in‐depth interviews with women impact case writers, we use Acker's inequality regimes framework to understand invisible and socially constructed gendering of the UK's policy that is designed to evaluate research impact. In a knowledge‐intensive workplace dominated by men, the shape and degree of gendered bases of inequality, systemic practices, processes and controls result in sub‐optimal talent management and gendered knowledge. We call for university leaders to be proactive in addressing barriers that fail to support or recognize women's leadership of research impact.

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“…We are even asked to care for the economy, by getting back to working and spending as normal. The management of COVID‐19 has led to unbalanced expectations about who is doing caring (Minello, 2020), masculinized ideals of competitive performance (Ivancheva, Lynch, & Keating, 2019) and for some a loss of access to care as resources are diverted towards the COVID crisis. These care‐based discourses are problematic because they lack both (i) an intimate understanding of what it means to take, give and receive care (Sevenhuijsen, 2003); and (ii) reflexivity regarding the likely gendered and other inequitable consequences of mobilizing care instrumentally towards managing the COVID crisis.…”

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COVID‐19, ethics of care and feminist crisis management

Branicki

2020

Gender Work & Organization

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The COVID‐19 pandemic threatens both lives and livelihoods. To reduce the spread of the virus, governments have introduced crisis management interventions that include border closures, quarantines, strict social distancing, marshalling of essential workers and enforced homeworking. COVID‐19 measures are necessary to save the lives of some of the most vulnerable people within society, and yet in parallel they create a range of negative everyday effects for already marginalized people. Likely unintended consequences of the management of the COVID‐19 crisis include elevated risk for workers in low‐paid, precarious and care‐based employment, over‐representation of minority ethnic groups in case numbers and fatalities, and gendered barriers to work. Drawing upon feminist ethics of care, I theorize a radical alternative to the normative assumptions of rationalist crisis management. Rationalist approaches to crisis management are typified by utilitarian logics, masculine and militaristic language, and the belief that crises follow linear processes of signal detection, preparation/prevention, containment, recovery and learning. By privileging the quantifiable — resources and measurable outcomes — such approaches tend to omit considerations of pre‐existing structural disadvantage. This article contributes a new theorization of crisis management that is grounded in feminist ethics to provide a care‐based concern for all crisis affected people.

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Precarity, gender and care in the neoliberal academy

Cited by 145 publications

References 68 publications

Female Entrepreneurship: Can Cooperatives Contribute to Overcoming the Gender Gap? A Spanish First Step to Equality

Female Entrepreneurship: Can Cooperatives Contribute to Overcoming the Gender Gap? A Spanish First Step to Equality

The curious under‐representation of women impact case leaders: Can we disengender inequality regimes?

COVID‐19, ethics of care and feminist crisis management

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