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Wasta and Gender Inequality in the Workplace: A Conceptual Framework for Social Network Influence in the Middle East and North Africa

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although organizational social networks are extensively researched, the gendered implications of informal networks embedded in distinctive socio‐cultural contexts remains underexplored. This conceptual paper focuses on wasta, a pervasive form of informal network and social capital in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, which ...
Maryam Aldossari, Sara Chaudhry, Btissam Aboubichr, Amna Chaudhry   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Jamaica: A New Literacy Setting for Postcolonial Literature

HOW, 2016
What is world literature? Who determines what constitutes world literature? How do educators begin to train prospective and current teachers who are, or who will be responsible for presenting world literature in the classroom?
Angela E. Rhone
doaj  

Beyond Confessional Cultures: Identity and the Role of Silence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Interventions

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper interrogates the confessional foundations of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) work, which have emerged predominantly from Global North traditions rooted in Christian understandings of subjectivity. In such traditions, identity is asserted through self‐declaration, visibility, and vocal articulation of difference, what we term ...
Claudia Eger, Mustafa F. Özbilgin
wiley   +1 more source

An Exploration of the Inter‐Sectional Identity of Black Female Leaders in the UK: A Shotterian Study

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the experience of Black female leaders in UK business and the narratives of their lived experience of marginalization. Drawing principally on the rather small UK‐focused literature on this topic as context, as well as some of the much larger international literature, methodologically we use the approach to qualitative ...
Rita G. Klapper, Paul J. Upham, Sven Kuenzel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nepali Women at Work: Menstruation in Informal and Formal Workplaces

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Women of specific castes in Nepal are socialized to adhere to a range of menstrual customs. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews, we examine the relevance of menstrual customs in informal and formal workplaces in Kathmandu, Nepal. We expand upon Acker's work on gendered institutions cross‐culturally, highlighting its global significance, and ...
Srijana Karki, Tamara L. Mix
wiley   +1 more source

From Zenana to courtroom: the politics of genre and gender in Sujata Massey's historical crime fiction. [PDF]

Front Sociol
G T N, Mukherjee A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Between Steel and Skin: Corporeal Colonization of Women Workers and Gendered Organizations in Heavy Industry

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT “I felt as if my body was being occupied by the factory.” The words of one woman working in Turkey's heavy industry were repeated in many accounts, capturing how industrial infrastructures calibrated to male norms press directly into women's bodies.
Esra Kasap, Janset Özen‐Aytemur, Cihat Erbil   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reimagining Identity in Postcolonial East African Literature: A Comparative Analysis of Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Abdulrazak Gurnah. [PDF]

F1000Res
Jani BJ.
europepmc   +1 more source

Boundaries of Work: Elite Black African Identities and Place of “(Re)productive” Labor in Kenya's Extractive Industries

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the positioning of elite Black African women in extractive labor spaces, arguing that their experiences are shaped by interrelated feminist concepts of care, time, experience, equality, and difference. Using an African feminist theoretical framework, the study recenters African epistemologies of work and embodiment to ...
Nerea Amisi Okong'o
wiley   +1 more source

Weaving MAPS: Historiographical Perspectives on Writing Postcolonial Histories of the Modern Hospital. [PDF]

Yale J Biol Med
Joe JAS.
europepmc   +1 more source