Three daily diary studies were conducted to examine the incidence, nature, and impact of everyday sexism as reported by college women men. Women experienced about one two impactful sexist incidents per week, consisting traditional gender role stereotypes prejudice, demeaning degrading comments behaviors, sexual objectification. These affected women's psychological well‐being decreasing their comfort, increasing feelings anger depression, state self‐esteem. Although experiences had similar...

African American college students reported their experiences with everyday forms of racism at a predominantly European university using daily diary format. Their incidents represented verbal expressions prejudice, bad service, staring or glaring, and difficulties in interpersonal exchanges (e.g., rudeness awkward nervous behavior). Both women’s men’s prejudice were common, often occurred friends intimate situations, had significant emotional impact on them terms decreasing comfort increasing...

Drawing on interviews with 77 high-performing eBay business sellers in France and Belgium, this article investigates the power asymmetries generated by customers’ evaluations online work settings. Sellers revealed a high degree of sensitivity to negative reviews, which, while infrequent, triggered feelings anxiety vulnerability. Their accounts exposed at two levels: transactional level between customers governance eBay. Our findings highlight three main mechanisms underlying context. First,...

The Attitudes Toward Women Scale (AWS) is routinely used as a general measure of sexism. In this article, it argued that the AWS (Spence, Helmreich, & Stapp, 1973) actually measures overt or blatant sexism (harmful and unequal treatment women intentional, visible, unambiguous), whereas Modern Sexism (MS) covert subtle forms (sexism either hidden clandestine unnoticed because built into cultural societal norms). Support for distinction shown by way (a) confirmatory factor analyses, (b)...

This paper examines the relationship between gender performativity and organizational space. Specifically, it focuses on some of ways in which is materialized through workspace accordance with dominant norms shaping life, a theme that has been relatively neglected within organization studies to date. Judith Butler’s (1988, 1993, 2000 [1990], 2004) performative analysis draws critical attention body as medium gendered subject brought into being, or made ‘matter’, she puts it. seeks extend...

This paper is based on a study of women's transition from careers within organizations into self‐employment. It focuses three key issues: the ways in which women accounted for their career transition, decisions to opt self‐employment, and extent which, telling stories, respondents engaged with emerging discourses. First, this considers recent debates literature exit organizations, discourses focusing position these changing Research findings are then presented, examining central themes:...

The results show that female subjects who anticipated being tokens-the only woman in the group were more likely than nontoken women to prefer a different group, desire change gender composition of and expect stereotype others. These effects stronger for token with less confidence about an upcoming task. In contrast, male did not differ their responses these measures. Yet potential tokens, regardless confidence, both anticipate stereotypic evaluations from members. authors discuss relevance...

The focus of this paper is the transition managers and professionals out organisational employment into portfolio work. interest in individual its resonance with wider debates about changing nature career. demise traditional hierarchical career widely predicted as replacement by a proliferation more fluid choices, encompassed over-arching notion boundaryless two studies on which based have taken an in-depth look at individuals who appear to exemplify move independent working. draws...

The central focus of this paper is an analysis the enterprise discourse and how it articulated by individuals working in small business environments, to construct reconstruct material practices psychological identities. core argument that, even if people do not take culture seriously, they feel unaffected its values claims, are inevitably reproducing through their involvement with daily which imbued notion (du Gay Salaman, 1992). As such, takes a social constructionist perspective seeks...

We investigated 242 college students' expectations about when sexual intercourse would first occur within different types of relationships. Participants reported their personal expectations, experiences, and beliefs the "average woman" man" in relationships with or without strong physical attraction emotional involvement. Results show that, general, men expect after significantly fewer dates (approximately 9–11) than women do 15–18). In addition, were related to actual experiences for women,...

This paper examines the ways in which public sector research scientists make sense of and seek to develop their careers within current organizational, policy, social cultural contexts. It argues that access such understandings, both structure agency relationship between them need be considered. Using empirical evidence from United Kingdom New Zealand, this further develops Barley's (1989) structuration model career. highlights diverse (and frequently intersecting) institutional contexts...

Abstract Small businesses are regarded as playing a vital role in regenerating the economy. Many new enterprises founded, owned and/or managed by women; indeed women owner/managers have become significant economic force. This paper takes its starting point androcentricity of existing approaches to entrepreneurship, and explores possible ways forward. Following review literature generally, it considers growing on entrepreneurs, highlighting particular importance feminist perspectives. It then...

Our discussion here focuses on gender performativity — the evocation of through stylized modes interaction and recitation particular cultural norms in BBC comedy series The Office . We suggest that can be read as a text brings sedimented ways thinking about enacting into relief, technique effectively ‘queers’ management organization gendered phenomena. In doing so, we argue not only does parody which is configured according to terms what Judith Butler has described ‘heterosexual matrix’, but...

Within organizational research, stories are increasingly recognized as a powerful research tool. In this article we argue that can likewise be valuable instrument in analyzing "career." particular, they illuminate the ways which individuals make sense of their careers unfold through time and space, attending to both holistic nature career well specific transitions. Further, discursive constructs provide insights into individual sense-making. Through such insights, story-based researcher...

There is a growing consensus that professional work faces an uncertain future. However, debates have tended to take macro focus, underplaying the role of individuals’ accounts their working lives. In this article we focus on UK architecture, examining how public-sector and private-sector architects construct purpose process occupation, applying concept discourse explore explicate different versions expressed in accounts. We argue architecture constituted modes creative endeavour, business...

This article is about employees' lived experiences of offshoring. Focusing on the accounts individuals in a financial services company operating UK and Mumbai, India, it examines ways which respondents constructed positioned themselves relation to one another stories they told. We argue that their our mobilized discourses culture cultural difference describe justify this positioning, with particular reference `the language barrier', work ethics notions competence. draw three broad...

Based on data generated in autoethnographic conversations among the three authors, this article authors critique prevailing metaphor of work—life balance. They offer instead a conceptualization relationship between work and nonwork aspects life that is more dynamic less reductionist which emotions, as well issues autonomy, control, identity, are integral features. These elucidate home realms not reified entities but rather elastic constructions reinforced also at times changed redrawn course...

From a constructionist perspective, we examine how non-managerial employees make sense of the part played by other people in shaping their careers. Taking as our starting point methodological limitations existing research into career shapers and arguing for perspective that starts with actors’ situated understandings, use life story method to develop new typology shapers. Grounded data, distinguish contrast shaper categories adviser, informant, witness, gatekeeper intermediary terms...

We draw on Bourdieu's theory of practice to examine a group Indian academics' accounts their careers in research-intensive university. Using the concepts habitus and capital, we argue that international staff are very well placed craft career increasingly market driven UK academic context, challenging discourse disadvantage associated with academics as other highly skilled migrants. Central our analysis is transferability capitals between different fields importance understanding capital...