摘要:

Using secondary analysis of large, nationally representative government data sets, we explore the interaction of occupational class and the age of youngest child in mothers' labour force participation. We show that levels of full‐time working vary markedly in each occupational class and by age of youngest child. Within part‐time working, the principal form of labour force participation for mothers, there are marked class differences in eligibility for ‘short‐term’ and ‘long‐term’ employment rights, as well as in the ‘quality’ of part‐time working. We suggest that the impact on mothers' employment of the age of the youngest child is mediated by mothers' occupational class and conclude that there is growing evidence of polarities in the employment experience of mothers in different

ISSN:0968-6673    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0432.1995.tb00038.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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This article addresses the relationship of the theorizing of organizational culture and the theorizing of gender construction. It begins by recognizing some of the difficulties of defining and understanding what is meant by the contested concept of culture. Drawing on the work of Smircich (1983) and Linstead and Grafton‐Small (1992), an attempt has been made to explore the theorization of organizational culture(s) in terms of the concepts of organizational culture as: responses to human needs, integration, rules, shared symbols and meanings, unconscious projection, text, otherness, paradox, seduction and discourse. The implications of each of the approaches for the understanding of gender in organizations are considered. No one theoretical approach is advocated, but rather the breadth of theoretical possibilities is explored. The article is concluded with the argument that theories of organizational culture need to be much more explicit about their theorizing of gender constructio

ISSN:0968-6673    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0432.1995.tb00039.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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This paper argues that the interplay of masculinity as a social construction, masculinism as an ideology, and patriarchy as a political system is grounded in the ontological condition of anxiety as a response to undecidability. Gender differences initiate the desire to resolve the ambiguities and incompletenesses experienced through the lack of the Other. In phallogo‐centrism this means the masculinist claim to dominate and legislate epistemologically — to determine meaning for others and resolve, deny, or banish ambiguity. This resolution is, of course artificial and embodies within it fear and anxiety because of its own contingency. This condition then emerges in particular situations and events where the resolution of ambiguity is problematic. The paper takes the managerial problems experienced during the strike by Cathay Pacific Airways flight attendants as one such example. Tensions between emotional display and rational argumentation in the strike turned the status quo on its head. Management mounted an emotional defence of its position in language which evoked rationality but which was not itself a rational argument, revealing its origins in anxiety and the true fragility of its position. Flight attendants turned the seductive skills which company training had developed into an effective weapon to mobilize public opinion. Management were faced, not by the look or averted gaze of the normally supine stewardesses, but the committed, articulate, organized and consolidated stare of rebellious employees who had re‐eroticized the workplace as a power

ISSN:0968-6673    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0432.1995.tb00040.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0968-6673    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0432.1995.tb00041.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0968-6673    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0432.1995.tb00042.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0968-6673    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0432.1995.tb00043.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY