“You Are Seen; You Matter:” Applying the Theory of Gendered Organizations to Equity and Inclusion for Motherscholars in Higher Education

CohenMiller, Anna; Demers, Denise; Schnackenberg, Heidi L.; Izekenova, Zhanna

doi:10.1080/26379112.2022.2025816

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“…A prominent documentary example of reciprocal flexibility, combining careers and parenting while "compromising" neither, was reflected in some participants' perceptions that flexibility produced not only an ability to do both (although not necessarily without compromises) as in other research (CohenMiller et al 2022), but also an "expectation you can do both".…”

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confidence: 99%

Diversified Organizational Inequality Regimes and Ideal Workers in a “Growth-Driven,” “Diverse,” “Flexible” Australian Company: A Multilevel Grounded Theory

2022

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Interacting global, societal and organizational contexts produce unique organizational inequality regimes. This paper aims to understand multilevel processes influencing gendered, classed, raced and aged inequality regimes and worker hierarchies within “ComCo”, an Australian subsidiary of a multinational company. Our qualitative critical feminist-grounded theory approach triangulated organizational documentation, employee interviews and open-ended questionnaire responses. The emergent theory suggested that ComCo’s globally and societally embedded neoliberal-capitalist–masculine growth imperative produced no longer simplistically one-sided, but multifaceted and diversified masculine–individual–white and feminine–collaborative–colored growth mechanisms, including ideal workers broadening from quantitatively extreme to qualitatively conformant qualities and practices, to constitute not merely unencumbered masculine, but all workers, as existing for company growth. However, feminine–collective–colored mechanisms, co-opted to supporting growth, remained subordinated to masculine–individual–white mechanisms constructed as more effective at delivering growth, reinforcing ComCo’s inequality regimes and worker hierarchies despite diversity initiatives. Organizations must identify and address processes reinforcing inequality regimes to genuinely promote employment equity and diversity.

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Section: Beneficence For But Subject To Growthmentioning

confidence: 99%