an article by Shaista E. Khilji and Kelly Harper Pumroy (The George Washington University, USA) published in Gender, Work & Organization Volume 6 Issue 7 (July 2019)
Abstract
With the purpose of breaking down socially derived, implicit assumptions regarding women and highlighting their resilience and strength within organizations, this study focused upon career experiences of women engineers.
Findings indicated women constantly navigated gendered social and organizational norms to develop their careers. We found them to employ three distinct coping strategies, conforming to play by the rules, negotiating to play around the rules and defying to establish own rules. The ways in which participants arrived at and enacted on these coping strategies is illustrative of their strength, forethought and self‐directedness. All participants demonstrated high self‐concept and the ability to learn and adapt.
The study allowed us to acknowledge prevalence of gendered norms and expectations, while also highlighting women's strength in navigating their careers.
We hope that the study is able to illuminate persistence of male perspective in the literature and promote a perspective of women as strong and resilient professionals.
Showing posts with label feminist_theory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label feminist_theory. Show all posts
Wednesday, 31 July 2019
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
The discourse of entrepreneurial masculinities (and femininities)
an article by Eleanor Hamilton (Lancaster University Management School, UK) published in Entrepreneurship and Regional Development Volume 25 Numbers 1-2 (January 2013)
Abstract
The overarching concern of this paper is the dominant discourse of entrepreneurship portrayed as a form of masculinity.
It argues that this discourse is perpetuated by academic research and by media representations of the entrepreneur. The entrepreneur is represented in the media by a narrow range of male stereotypes, whilst women are under-represented and often that representation is linked to domestic concerns.
At the same time, academic studies persistently rely on male experience to theorise entrepreneurship, and women are studied in terms of their difference.
This enduring discourse results in entrepreneurial femininities being rendered invisible.
This paper argues that studies in entrepreneurship should remain alert to the denial and masking of gender. It calls for entrepreneurship researchers to engage with contemporary debates in gender, culture and media studies and proposes a research agenda to challenge the dominant discourses.
Abstract
The overarching concern of this paper is the dominant discourse of entrepreneurship portrayed as a form of masculinity.
It argues that this discourse is perpetuated by academic research and by media representations of the entrepreneur. The entrepreneur is represented in the media by a narrow range of male stereotypes, whilst women are under-represented and often that representation is linked to domestic concerns.
At the same time, academic studies persistently rely on male experience to theorise entrepreneurship, and women are studied in terms of their difference.
This enduring discourse results in entrepreneurial femininities being rendered invisible.
This paper argues that studies in entrepreneurship should remain alert to the denial and masking of gender. It calls for entrepreneurship researchers to engage with contemporary debates in gender, culture and media studies and proposes a research agenda to challenge the dominant discourses.
Wednesday, 3 October 2012
Exploring the dynamics of gender, feminism and entrepreneurship: advancing debate to escape a dead end?
an article Helene Ahl (Jönköping University, Sweden) and Susan Marlow (University of Birmingham) published in Organization Volume 19 Number 5 (September 2012)
Abstract
Contrary to the neo-liberal thesis that entrepreneuring is an open and accessible endeavour where personal effort alone determines reward and status, it has been demonstrated that there is a persistent, but occluded, gender bias within the entrepreneurial discourse.
Accordingly, women are positioned as lacking and incomplete men; however, despite calls to employ feminist theory as an analytical frame to demonstrate the reproduction of such subordination, there is scant evidence this has emerged.
Within this article, we respond to this call by demonstrating how post-structural feminist analysis reveals the gendered assumptions informing entrepreneurship theory that embed prevailing hetero-normative assumptions.
These assumptions limit the epistemological scope of contemporary research which positions women as failed or reluctant entrepreneurial subjects; as such, in the absence of feminist theorising these analyses remain descriptive rather than explanatory.
Accordingly, the current entrepreneurial research agenda is in danger of reaching an epistemological dead end in the absence of a reflexive critical perspective to inform the idea of who can be and what might be an entrepreneur.
Finally, we draw upon these arguments to reflect upon current approaches to theorising within the broader field of entrepreneurial enquiry.
Abstract
Contrary to the neo-liberal thesis that entrepreneuring is an open and accessible endeavour where personal effort alone determines reward and status, it has been demonstrated that there is a persistent, but occluded, gender bias within the entrepreneurial discourse.
Accordingly, women are positioned as lacking and incomplete men; however, despite calls to employ feminist theory as an analytical frame to demonstrate the reproduction of such subordination, there is scant evidence this has emerged.
Within this article, we respond to this call by demonstrating how post-structural feminist analysis reveals the gendered assumptions informing entrepreneurship theory that embed prevailing hetero-normative assumptions.
These assumptions limit the epistemological scope of contemporary research which positions women as failed or reluctant entrepreneurial subjects; as such, in the absence of feminist theorising these analyses remain descriptive rather than explanatory.
Accordingly, the current entrepreneurial research agenda is in danger of reaching an epistemological dead end in the absence of a reflexive critical perspective to inform the idea of who can be and what might be an entrepreneur.
Finally, we draw upon these arguments to reflect upon current approaches to theorising within the broader field of entrepreneurial enquiry.
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