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ABSTRACT This paper examines the daily experiences of Jua Kali women entrepreneurs in Western Kenya, unpacking how gendered power relations are enacted within informal marketplaces and how women entrepreneurs mobilize agency within these structurally and institutionally constrained contexts.
Tabitha Sindani +3 more
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Unwelcome Expectancy: How Pregnancy Shapes Employment Opportunities in Mexico
ABSTRACT Using the simulated client technique, this study examines pregnancy discrimination in hiring processes and shows how pregnancy hinders women's employment opportunities as a combined effect of gender biases and institutional incentives that discourage the hiring of pregnant women.
Sonia M. Frías
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“Tragic,” “Torment,” and “Torture”: Leadership as Fertile Ground for Women's Organizational Misogyny
ABSTRACT This feminist study explores women's hostilities toward women in UK leadership as organizational misogyny. Organizations are mostly silent about misogyny, and gender studies have yet to empirically interrogate organizational misogyny and expose it as a critical method of women's oppression. Here, we explore women's organizational misogyny (WOM)
Sharon Mavin, Gina Grandy
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Mistresses of Ink: Rewriting the Tattoo Industry
ABSTRACT Tattooing has moved from a marginal subculture into mainstream practice, and women are increasingly working as tattoo artists and opening their own studios. However, the industry remains shaped by gendered assumptions about authority, credibility, and appearance.
Lara Bertola
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Gendering Digitalization: Technology Change in Feminized Supermarket Work
ABSTRACT Digitalization is re‐shaping the way work is organized, yet processes of digitalization have largely been examined in male‐dominated workplace contexts like manufacturing and logistics, often with little reference to gender dynamics. This paper explores how workers experience digitalization in the context of a female‐dominated occupation, that
Laura Good, Rae Cooper, Meraiah Foley
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Employees With Transgender Experience and Their Motives for Managing Openness at Work
ABSTRACT This article explored how employees with transgender experience manage openness regarding their gender identity and transgender experience in the workplace; and to identify the motives underlying these strategies as shaped through the interplay of individual experiences, workplace interactions, expectations of gender performance/doing gender ...
Carin Hellström +3 more
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Background Workplace sexual harassment remains a persistent issue in Sweden. Research about organisational antecedents has been criticised for being limited in scope, possibly overlooking contextual factors relevant for the occurrence of sexual ...
Frida Pilgaard +4 more
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ABSTRACT This article examines how gendered institutional arrangements in Australian sport shape the reporting of gender‐based violence (GBV) against adult women and gender‐diverse people. Using feminist institutionalism, we analyze the formal and informal rules that structure sport integrity systems and the gendered power relations they reproduce ...
Samantha Marshall +4 more
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