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Schnurr, Stephanie, Zayts, Olga, Schroeder, Andreas and Le Hoyte-Hopkins, Catherine (2020) ‘It’s not acceptable for the husband to stay at home’. Taking a discourse analytical approach to capture the gendering of work. Gender, Work and Organization, 27 (3). pp. 414-434. doi:10.1111/gwao.12408 ISSN 0968-6673.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12408
Abstract
This paper illustrates some of the ways in which the notion of (paid) work is actively being gendered, and how these gendering processes take place not only through organisational practices but also in discourses that circulate outside an organisation in the private domain. Drawing on 15 in-depth interviews with women who opted out of their own professional career in order to accompany their husbands on their overseas work assignment to Hong Kong, we demonstrate some of the benefits of using a discourse analytical approach to capturing and identifying the processes through which these women actively (although not necessarily consciously) gender the notion of work, thereby reinforcing the gender order and its male bias. We argue that identifying and making visible these gendered and gendering practices is an important component of, and a potential trigger for change both in organisations as well as private contexts.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Sex role in the work environment, Women -- Employment, Sex discrimination in employment , Women -- Social conditions, Sexual division of labor, Sex role , Wives -- Effect of husband's employment on | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Gender, Work and Organization | ||||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0968-6673 | ||||||||
Official Date: | May 2020 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 27 | ||||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 414-434 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/gwao.12408 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | "This is the peer reviewed version of the following article:Schnurr, S, Zayts, O, Schroeder, A, Le Coyte‐Hopkins, C. ‘It's not acceptable for the husband to stay at home'. Taking a discourse analytical approach to capture the gendering of work. Gender Work Organ. 2019. which has been published in final form at [Link to final article using the https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12408. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions." | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 7 August 2019 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 August 2021 | ||||||||
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