Gender Power And Organisations

Author : Susan Halford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349911837

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This important text demonstrates the range of ways in which gender can be seen to be an integral part of organisational life. Through a lively and detailed exploration of the structures and processes of organisations, the authors bring to life the ways in which gender is performed, maintained and reproduced in many of the corporations and institutions in which we work. A wide range of research on gender, race and other forms of social difference is drawn upon to reveal how divisions and inequalities remain a significant aspect of work and organisations in spite of the fact that high profile is given to women who 'make it' to the top. At the same time, evidence is also presented to show how these persistent structural differences are variously contested and challenged by both women and men. The authors discuss how these contradictory factors can be usefully interpreted by developing our understanding of the ways in which power operates in organisations. By developing a multi-dimensional approach to understanding power, the richness and diversity of gender relations within contemporary organisations is explained. Through its full discussion of key theoretical concepts and its insightful look at the ways in which these interweave with substantive areas of organisational life, this book is the perfect text both for readers who are new to the subject and who are already engaged in the field.

Author : Susan Halford,Pauline Leonard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Corporate culture
ISBN : 0312237448

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This important book offers an overview and synthesis of theory and research into the gendered dimension of organizations, exploring how gender difference is constructed within organizations and intertwined with organizational power relations. Assuming little prior knowledge on the part of the reader, it examines a series of key areas of substantive interest in the study of organizations, bringing to bear a wide range of social and feminist theory in understanding the processes in play.

Author : Paula Nicolson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317537298

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Gender, Power and Organization by Paula Nicolson Pdf

Work organizations are a major site of gender politics for professional women and men, and although there are more women in senior positions than ever before, these increased opportunities have not been gained without psychological consequences. Evidence-based and theoretically driven, the new edition of Gender, Power and Organization raises important questions about gender and power in the workplace, and the psychology of women’s advancement. Twenty years on from the first edition, it re-examines gender relations at work and asks why, despite many years of feminist critique and action, we are able to understand the dynamics of the workplace but fail to make them more representative. The struggles women face in professional and public life remain intense, not least because many men experience an increasing sense of threat to their long-term aspirations and professional positions. Using examples from recent research and the author's own consultancy experience, this important volume offers a fresh exploration of the psychology of gender and power at work, from the development of gender identities and roles, to explanations of bullying and sexual harassment in the organization. It offers an accessible survey of the subject for professional managers and students of leadership, psychology, management, sociology, gender, and women’s studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781134849147

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Author : Lata Narayanaswamy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317812234

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Gender, Power and Knowledge for Development by Lata Narayanaswamy Pdf

Knowledge-for-development is under-theorised and under-researched within development studies, but as a set of policy objectives it is thriving within development practice. Donors and other agencies are striving to improve the flow of information within and between decision-makers and so-called ‘poor and marginalized groups’ in order to promote economic and social development, including the empowerment of women. Gender, Power and Knowledge for Development questions the assumptions and practice of the knowledge-for-development industry. Using a qualitative, multi-site ethnographical study of a Northern-based gender information service and its ‘beneficiaries’ in India, the book queries the utility of the knowledge paradigm itself and the underlying assumption that a knowledge deficit exists in the Global South. It questions the value of practices designed to address this presumed deficit that seek to increase information without addressing the specific problems of the knowledge systems being targeted for support. After reviewing the evidence, the book recommends that international organisations, governments and practitioners move away from the belief that information intermediaries can employ progressive correctives to ‘tinker at the edges’ and thus resolve the shortcomings of on-going attempts to use knowledge alone as a driver of development. Gender, Power and Knowledge for Development will be of great interest to researchers, students in development studies, gender studies, and communication studies as well as INGOs, donor agencies and groups engaged in information for development (i4D), ICT for development (ICT4D), Tech4Dev, knowledge mobilization and knowledge-for-development (K4D).

Author : Paula Nicolson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134849130

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Work organisations have become a major site of gender politics for professional women and men over the last twenty years. There are more senior women today, but increased opportunities have not been gained without psychological consequences. Rather than catalogue the barriers to women's success, Paula Nicholson examines the problems they can face as a result. She re-examines the ways that patriarchal structures resist women's progress, and how male success has psychological implications for women's sense of subjectivity, self-esteem and gener identity, and how achieving against such odds has an impact on women's everyday lives.

Author : Agnes Bolsø,Stine Helena Bang Svendsen,Siri Øyslebø Sørensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315308937

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Bodies, Symbols and Organizational Practice by Agnes Bolsø,Stine Helena Bang Svendsen,Siri Øyslebø Sørensen Pdf

Despite all the efforts to promote change, power and authority still seem to be permanently associated with the white, the straight and the masculine, both symbolically and in the everyday world of organizations. As the intricate relationship between the symbolic and the everyday remains under-researched, this anthology proposes a transdisciplinary feminist perspective drawing on the humanities in order to explore the complex nature of the gendered politics of organizations. Indeed, analyzing how images, narratives, symbols and bodies are all part of how power and gender are constructed in organizations through a broad and international range of empirical studies, Bodies, Symbols and Organizational Practice explores issues at the interstices of the humanities and social sciences, combining theoretical and analytical perspectives from both areas. Providing a radical analysis of the gendered dynamics of power as well as petitioning for radical intervention into those dynamics, this timely volume will appeal to postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers interested in fields such as: Organization and Management Studies, Gender studies, Feminist theory and Sociology of Work & Industry.

Author : Andria D. Timmer,Elizabeth Wirtz
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800734616

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Gender, Power, and Non-Governance by Andria D. Timmer,Elizabeth Wirtz Pdf

Using Sherry Ortner’s analogy of Female/Nature, Male/Culture, this volume interrogates the gendered aspects of governance by exploring the NGO/State relationship. By examining how NGOs/States perform gendered roles and actions and the gendered divisions of labor involved in different types of institutional engagement, this volume attends to the ways in which gender and governance constitute flexible, relational, and contingent systems of power. The chapters in this volume present diverse analyses of the ways in which projects of governance both reproduce and challenge binaries.

Author : Pat O'Connor,Kate White
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030696870

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Gender, Power and Higher Education in a Globalised World by Pat O'Connor,Kate White Pdf

This book examines persistent gender inequality in higher education, and asks what is preventing change from occurring. The editors and contributors argue that organizational resistance to gender equality is the key explanation; reflected in the endorsement of discourses such as excellence, choice, distorted intersectionality, revitalized biological essentialism and gender neutrality. These discourses implicitly and explicitly depict the status quo as appropriate, reasonable and fair: ultimately impeding efforts and attempts to promote gender equality. Drawing on research from around the world, this book explores the limits and possibilities of challenging these harmful discourses, focusing on the state and universities themselves as levers for change. It stresses the importance of institutional transformation, the vital contribution of feminist activists and the importance of women’s deceptively ‘small victories’ in the academy.

Author : Paula Nicolson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317537304

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Gender, Power and Organization by Paula Nicolson Pdf

Work organizations are a major site of gender politics for professional women and men, and although there are more women in senior positions than ever before, these increased opportunities have not been gained without psychological consequences. Evidence-based and theoretically driven, the new edition of Gender, Power and Organization raises important questions about gender and power in the workplace, and the psychology of women’s advancement. Twenty years on from the first edition, it re-examines gender relations at work and asks why, despite many years of feminist critique and action, we are able to understand the dynamics of the workplace but fail to make them more representative. The struggles women face in professional and public life remain intense, not least because many men experience an increasing sense of threat to their long-term aspirations and professional positions. Using examples from recent research and the author's own consultancy experience, this important volume offers a fresh exploration of the psychology of gender and power at work, from the development of gender identities and roles, to explanations of bullying and sexual harassment in the organization. It offers an accessible survey of the subject for professional managers and students of leadership, psychology, management, sociology, gender, and women’s studies.

Author : Angela J. Hattery, PHD, Professor, Women and Gender Studies, George Mason University, Author: Policing Black Bodies: How Black Lives Are Surveilled and How to Work for Change,Earl Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781538118184

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Gender, Power, and Violence by Angela J. Hattery, PHD, Professor, Women and Gender Studies, George Mason University, Author: Policing Black Bodies: How Black Lives Are Surveilled and How to Work for Change,Earl Smith Pdf

In the era of #metoo, Gender, Power and Violence provides a better understanding about the ways in which institutional structures shape, or have mishandled, gender based violence.

Author : Marianna Fotaki,Nancy Harding
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135106065

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Gender and the Organization by Marianna Fotaki,Nancy Harding Pdf

Discussions of feminism and gender in organizations and management studies, have, with some notable exceptions, become stuck in something of a time-warp. This lies in stark contrast to the developments in the fields of feminism and gender theory more generally. Management and organization studies needs new applied topical gender theories that challenge the limits on what can be said about working lives in organizations. Gender and the Organization: Women at Work in the 21st Century looks to update management organizational studies with the recent developments in gender theory, including theories of embodiment, affect, materiality, identity, subjectification, recognition, and the intertwining of political, social and the psyche. As well as looking backwards at existing feminist and gender theory, this exciting book also looks forward, developing an organizational feminist theory for the twenty-first century. Exploring what feminist ethics of an organization would look like, this volume shows what a revivified feminist organization studies could offer to gender theorists more generally. This book will be of interest not only to management and organization theorists, but also more generally to feminist and gender theorists working across the social sciences, arts and humanities. It will appeal to postgraduate and research students and also to established organization and management scholars working in business schools across the world.

Author : Harriet Bradley
Publisher : Red Globe Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780333681787

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Gender and Power in the Workplace by Harriet Bradley Pdf

On gender discrimination in the workplace.

Author : Clare Walsh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317875710

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Gender and Discourse by Clare Walsh Pdf

Real Language Series General Editors:Jennifer Coates, Jenny Cheshire, Euan Reid This is a sociolinguistics series about the relationships between language, society and social change. Books in the series draw on natural language data from a wide range of social contexts. The series takes a critical approach to the subject, challenging current orthodoxies, and dealing with familiar topics in new ways. Gender and Discourse offers a critical new approach to the study of language and gender studies. Women moving into the public domains of power traditionally monopolised by men are creating new identities for themselves, and the language that is used by them and about them offers an insight into gender roles. Clare Walsh reviews the current dominance/difference debates, and proposes a new analytical framework which combines the insights of critical discourse and feminist perspectives on discourse to provide a new perspective on the role of women in public life. A superbly accessible book designed for students and researchers in the field, the book features: - topical case studies from the arenas of politics, religion and activism- a new analytical framework, also summarised in chart form so the reader can apply their own critical analyses of texts. - written and visual text types for the reader's own linguistic and semiotic analysis. 'This important book takes up a neglected question in the study of language and gender - what difference women make to the discourse of historically male-dominated institutions - and brings to bear on it both the insights of feminist scholarship and evidence from women's own testimony. Clare Walsh's analysis of the dilemmas women face is both subtle and incisive, taking us beyond popular 'Mars and Venus' stereotypes and posing some hard questions for fashionable theories of language, identity and performance.

Author : Georgia Duerst-Lahti,Rita Mae Kelly
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0472066102

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Gender Power, Leadership, and Governance by Georgia Duerst-Lahti,Rita Mae Kelly Pdf

Investigates how notions of masculinity and femininity inform ideology, political action, and institutional prejudice