Rethinking Gender Inequalities in Organizations / / Penny Dick.

• Superior document: Rethinking Business and Management Series
• VerfasserIn: Dick, Penny,
• TeilnehmendeR: Edward Elgar Publishing,
• Place / Publishing House: Northampton : : Edward Elgar Publishing,, 2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Rethinking business and management.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (206 pages)

"In this thoughtful book, Penny Dick challenges orthodox views of gender inequality. Combining post-structuralist thinking with process ontology, the author presents a novel conceptual approach to rethinking gender inequalities in organizations and management settings. The author argues that current understandings of gender inequalities tend to focus too much on how to improve women's access to higher value roles and occupations rather than questioning why some roles and occupations are seen to be so valuable in the first instance. Positing that organizations tend to value people and roles that are seen to visibly contribute to bottom line outcomes such as profit and reputation, the book argues that the undervaluation of particular forms of work is related to its perceived lack of centrality to such outcomes. While this problem is certainly more often prevalent in the types of work typically performed by women, it is also one that affects many men. This accessible and provocative account of the application of social constructionism and post-structuralist thinking to the study of gender inequalities will be an important resource for academics, researchers, and students interested in gender and social justice, business and management, diversity and management, gender and management, and gender equality studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the author -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: rethinking gender inequalities in organizations -- 2. Theoretical approaches to the study of gender inequalities -- 3. Theoretical approach and conceptual tools -- 4. The social construction of job requirements -- 5. Power, visible work and moral order -- 6. Contesting the moral order -- 7. Rewriting the moral order: the narrative ordering of disorderly lives -- 8. Rethinking gender inequalities in organizations: review and synthesis -- 9. Conclusion: theoretical, methodological and practical implications -- Bibliography -- Index.