Gendered Practices at Work: (Un)intended Consequences Across Organizations and Markets

Éditeurs invités

• Daniela Giménez-Jiménez, TU Dortmund
• Magdalena Markowska, Umeå University
• Patricia Gabaldón, IE University
• Caren Scheepers, Gordon Institute of Business Science

Synthèse

This special issue examines how gendered practices are constructed and enacted within organizations, and what consequences they produce. While gender as social practice is theoretically accepted, understanding how these practices operate across different contexts remains limited. The issue addresses a critical gap: persistent structural inequalities continue to disadvantage women globally, yet equality initiatives sometimes produce unintended negative consequences such as reinforcing stereotypes.

The special issue welcomes diverse approaches examining both intended outcomes of gendered practices and unintended consequences. It seeks to understand how gendered practices at multiple levels are negotiated, resisted, and transformed across different industries and cultural contexts, particularly through feminist theories including intersectional and postcolonial perspectives.

Thèmes proposés

• Does the (mis)use of gendered practices in organizations and industries affect various occupations?
• How do women and men employees navigate gendered practices in women-dominated versus men-dominated industries? Are there differences across these industries?
• Which specific gendered practices do women and which ones do men (mis)use, and what consequences do these have for organizational culture?
• How are current discourses shaping gendered practices? Do these gendered practices influence organizational outcomes, outputs, or impacts?
• How does the production, reproduction, and construction of gender affect business outcomes? Are the effects the same or different within and outside organisations?
• How do gendered practices influence women's networks, particularly given unique challenges women and minorities face in creating personal networks in organizational contexts?
• What are the consequences of women's programs on their networks, and what are the outcomes of these programs for women and men, as well as for organizations?
• Who are the actors actively constructing, resisting and shaping gendered practices at the different levels? What conditions enable and which ones inhibit production, change, and use of gendered practices?
• How does the portrayal of women and men in business—through media representations and policies—affect leadership stereotypes?
• What roles do masculine and feminine voices play concerning gendered practices? Could individuals influence and confront gendered practices?
• How do women with intersectional identities or social experiences—such as LGBTQIA++ individuals or female migrants—create, build, or construct new gendered practices?
• In what ways do these practices influence organizations, industries, and markets?
• How are gendered practices shaped within women- and men-dominated industries?