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Angouri, Jo (2011) “We are in a masculine profession…” : constructing gender identities in a consortium of two multinational engineering companies. Gender and Language, Volume 5 (Number 2). pp. 343-371. doi:10.1558/genl.v5i2.373 ISSN 1747-6321.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/genl.v5i2.373
Abstract
The paper discusses the construction gender identities in a complex white-collar workplace. Recent work has repeatedly suggested that gender is not something people have or are but something people do. Despite this rich body of work, gender is still often operationalised as biological sex and is employed as an explanatory variable to account for perceived differences in interaction. By analogy, the paper also addresses the multinational profile of modern workplaces and also problematises the widely held assumption that people from different countries ‘do work’ in distinct ways.
The paper draws on recordings of real life routine meetings and interview data. Special attention is paid to Chloe the only senior female member of the team. The analysis shows that the employees draw on both normatively masculine and feminine interactional styles according to the context of the interaction and the co-constructed norms of their community. However the industry is still perceived and constructed as by and large a ‘masculine’ domain.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Women -- Employment, Women in engineering | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Gender and Language | ||||
| Publisher: | Equinox Publishing Ltd. | ||||
| ISSN: | 1747-6321 | ||||
| Official Date: | 2011 | ||||
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| Volume: | Volume 5 | ||||
| Number: | Number 2 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 29 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 343-371 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1558/genl.v5i2.373 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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