Routledge Studies in Gender and Organizations
About the Book Series
Although still a fairly young field, the study of gender and organizations is increasingly popular and relevant. There are few areas of academic research that are as vibrant and dynamic as the study of gender and organizations. While much earlier research has focused on documenting the imbalances of women and men in organizations, more recently, research on gender and organizations has departed from counting men and women. Instead research in this area sees gender as a process: something that is done rather than something that people are. This perspective is important and meaningful as it takes researchers away from essentialist notions of gender and opens the possibility of analysing the process of how individuals become women and men. This is called ‘gendering’, ‘practising gender’, ‘doing gender’ or ‘performing gender’ and draws on rich philosophical traditions.
Whilst Routledge Studies in Gender and Organizations has a broad remit, it will be thematically and theoretically committed to exploring gender and organizations from a constructivist perspective. Rather than focusing on specific areas of organizations, the series is to be kept deliberately broad to showcase the most innovative research in this field. It is anticipated that the books in this series will make a theoretical contribution to the field of gender and organization based on rigorous empirical explorations.
Gender and Academic Career Development in Central and Eastern Europe
1st Edition
By Anna M. Górska
October 09, 2024
The nature of academic institutions is inherently gendered. This is because higher education institutions (HEIs) do not operate in a void but, rather, are part and parcel of patriarchal social structures. This book offers a comprehensive presentation of the gendered and gendering academic career ...
Working Life and Gender Inequality: Intersectional Perspectives and the Spatial Practices of Peripheralization
1st Edition
Edited
By Angelika Sjöstedt, Katarina Giritli Nygren, Marianna Fotaki
January 09, 2023
In the modern globalized world of work, society’s capitalist and patriarchal norms perpetuate old and create new differences based on gender, class, ethnicity, age, and other social categorizations. This book proposes a novel conceptual framework offering theoretical and methodological insights ...
Gender and Corporate Boards: The Route to A Seat at The Table
1st Edition
By Scarlett Brown, Elisabeth Kelan
September 30, 2021
The lack of women on boards has galvanised much public and policy interest, which has led to many countries introducing quotas for women on boards, or to concerted voluntary action. However the way that directors are appointed remains opaque and prone to the influence of gender.Using a social ...
Gender, Age and Inequality in the Professions: Exploring the Disordering, Disruptive and Chaotic Properties of Communication
1st Edition
Edited
By Marta Choroszewicz, Tracey L. Adams
March 31, 2021
The literature on gender and professions shows that professional careers continue to be impacted by gender – albeit with important differences among professions and countries. Much less researched is the issue of the significance of gender and age-cohort or generation to professional work. Gender, ...
Judith Butler and Organization Theory
1st Edition
By Melissa Tyler
March 31, 2021
2020 will mark thirty years since the first publication of Judith Butler’s ground-breaking book, Gender Trouble. Here, and in subsequent work, Butler argues that gender and other forms of identity can best be understood as performative acts. These acts are what bring our subjectivities into ...
Women and Careers: Transnational Studies in Public Policy and Employment Equity
1st Edition
Edited
By Marilee Reimer
December 18, 2020
The unifying theme of Women and Careers is women’s educational and employment success, with the objective of profiling supportive public policy in global contexts from Atlantic Canada to Western Europe, Australia and China. It takes up the career processes of women from marginalized groups who have...
Gender and the Professions: International and Contemporary Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Kaye Broadbent, Glenda Strachan, Geraldine Healy
December 05, 2019
This book examines gender and professions in the 21st century. Historically the professions encompassed law, medicine and the church, all of which excluded women from participation. Industry and the 20th century introduced new professions such as engineering and latterly information technology ...
Postfeminism and Organization
1st Edition
Edited
By Patricia Lewis, Yvonne Benschop, Ruth Simpson
December 05, 2019
This edited book inserts postfeminism (PF) as a critical concept into understandings of work and organization. While the notion of PF has been extensively investigated in cultural and media studies, it has yet to emerge within organization studies - remaining marginal to understandings of work ...