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Gender, Work & Organization
Edited by:
David Knights and Deborah Kerfoot
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 54/89 Management; 8/29 Women's Studies
Impact Factor: 1.036
Awareness of gender as a central feature of all aspects of everyday life and society has become more and more widespread. Appropriately social sciences research is reflecting this increasing concern with gender, especially in the field of work and organization where this journal is focused. Gender, Work & Organization is the first journal to bring together a wide range of interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary research in this field into a new international forum for debate and analysis. Contributions are invited from all disciplinary perspectives including anthropology, history, labour economics, law, philosophy, politics, psychology, and sociology.
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Ranked "A" in the Business and Management category of the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) rankings.
Gender, Work & Organization 6th International Interdisciplinary Conference, 21st-23rd June 2010
This conference provides an international forum for debate and analysis of a variety of issues in relation to gender, work and organization.
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Streams - Call for Papers
- Careers - Stream Convenors: Ida Sabelis & Elizabeth Schilling
- Creative Industries - Stream Convenors: Deborah Jones, Judith Pringle & Sarah Proctor-Thomson
- Dirty Work - Stream Convenors: Heather Hopfl, Patricia Lewis, Ruth Simpson & Natasha Slutskaya
- Emotion and Aesthetics - Stream Convenors: Leanne Cutcher, Philip Hancock & Melissa Tyler
- Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Growth - Stream Convenors: Gry Agnete Alsos, Ulla Hytti, Elizabeth Ljunggren & Malin Tillmar
- Ethics and Politics - Stream Convenors: Janet Borgerson, Alison Pullen & Carl Rhodes
- Gender Inequality - Stream Convenors: Joan Acker, Sharon Bird, Patricia Yancey Martin & Amy Wharton
- Gendering of elites - Stream Convenors: Jorid Hovden, Elin Kvande & Bente Rasmussen
- General Stream - Stream Convenors: Deborah Kerfoot & Toni Schofield
- Global Financial Crisis - Stream Convenors: David Knights, David Renemark & Maria Tullberg
- Health Care - Stream Convenors: Mike Dent, Robert McMurray & Nanna Mik-Meyer
- Latin American Globalization - Stream Convenors: Valeria Pulignano, Jenny K. Rodriguez & Paul Stewart
- Managerial Universities - Stream Convenors: Regine Bendl, Brigitte Liebig & Ursulla Muller
- Migrant Workers - Stream Convenors: Sibylle Heilbrunn & Tuzin Baycan Levent
- Mothering of Work - Stream Convenors: Harriet Bradley, Berit Brandth & Maud Perrier
- Practicing Gender - Stream Convenors: Marieke van den Brink, Elizabeth Kelan & Julia Nentwich
- Professional identities - Stream Convenors: Celia Davies & Ellen Kuhlmann
- Service sector - Stream Convenors: Kaye Broadbent, Fang Lee Cooke & Glenda Strachan
- Sexual Politics - Stream Convenors: Nickie Charles, Suzanne Franzway, Linda Krefting & Carol Wolkowitz
For further information on the conference, please click here. To book your place, please click here.
Special Issue: Work-life balance: a matter of choice?
Editors: Abigail Gregory (University of Salford) & Susan Milner (University of Bath)
Volume 16, Issue 1 (2009) ***FREE TO ACCESS***
Work-life balance has come to the forefront of policy discourse in developing countries in the context of major socio-economic change and in particular government support for increased female labour market participation and a more egalitarian division of labour in the home. In this discourse it is often taken for granted that work-life balance should be formulated in terms of a 'win-win' situation where employees' preferences coincide with employers' desire for greater flexibility of working practices, particularly working time. This special issue contributes to debates around the motivation behind workplace work-life balance measures (choice/constraint), the content, take-up and impact on employees' non-work life.
Its present (largely qualitative) empirical data from France, Ireland, Norway and the UK, showing that the work-life balance agenda needs to tackle wider organizational and sector-specific cultures if it is to have a positive impact on employees' lived and the working environment. Individual choice is circumscribed both by organization arrangements and practice and by prevailing national gender cultures, expectations and labour market opportunities. A key theme is the way in which organizational change (e.g. in high-pressure knowledge and project work) is redrawing the balance between work and non-work lives and generating 'boundaryless' work. Another is the continued gendering of organizational cultures and their national embeddedness.
These constraints lead the editors to question the usefulness of adaptive strategies for achieving work-life balance and to highlight the need for collective rights to back up individual choice. They conclude that framing rights, for example to parental leave and working-time reduction, in a gender-neutral way can represent a way forward for men and for women and help to rebalance the gender division of labour.
Special Issue: Thin Edge of the Wedge
Partly to celebrate the journal's 15th year of existence, this issue is devoted to the opening plenary speech from the 2005 GWO International Conference at Keele University. Please click here to read the editorial from the issue.
Gender, Work and Organization Annual Membership
Gender, Work and Organization is delighted to announce the launch of our first annual membership package! For details click here.
GWO Newsletter
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Online Content Now Available Back to Volume 1
All back issues of this journal are available online. Click here to browse contents and abstracts. For further information on how to access these articles please visit our Librarian Site.
Endorsements
Rated as an 'A' class journal in the Australian Business Dean Council ABDC Journal List. The Council seeks to list journals relevant to Australian business academics and group them into four categories (A*, A, B & C).
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TopHighlights
Latest Special Issue: Work-life balance: a matter of choice?
Editors: Abigail Gregory (University of Salford) & Susan Milner (University of Bath)
Volume 16, Issue 1 (2009) **FREE TO ACCESS**
Conference Plenary Issue - The Thin End of the Wedge
Papers include:
The Thin End of the Wedge: Foreign Women Professors as Double Strangers in Academia
Barbara Czarniawska and Guje Sevón
Helpful Men and Feminist Support: More than Double Strangeness
Joan Acker
Hierarchy of Strangeness: Negating Womanhood
Lotte Bailyn
The Wedge or the Doorstop?
Marta B. Calás
Gender and Emotion
Guest Editors: David Knights and Emma Surman
**FREE TO ACCESS**
Undoing Gender: Organizing and Disorganizing Performance
Guest Editors: Alison Pullen and David Knights
Gender and New Technologies
Guest Editor: Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist
Gender as Social Practice
Guest Editor: Barbara Poggio
Gender and Service Work
Guest Edtiors: Deborah Kerfoot and Marek Korczynski
Beyond Boundaries: Towards Fluidity in Theorizing and Practice
Guest Editors: Alison Linstead and Joanna Brewis
