 Accounting and lived experience in the gendered workplaceSalvador Carmona and Mahmoud Ezzamel Accounting, Organizations and Society, 2016, vol. 49, issue C, 1-8 Abstract: Research addressing how gendered space is experienced in the workplace, how accounting operates as a gendered and gendering technology and how it impacts identity formation and gender performance is sparse. This paper examines the relationship between accounting and lived experience in the gendered workplace. We articulate a theoretical framing that examines gender producing processes and how accounting functions as a gendering gaze at work. We then offer an overview of some key studies that have examined accounting and gender in the workplace. We argue that the construction of gendered identity in the workplace is about how individuals perform gender in an imaginatively produced space for the purposes of control and domination. We identify three main themes that deserve the attention of future researchers: a) how the human gaze produces gender divisions at work; b) how accounting functions as a gaze and produces gender divisions in the workplace while noting the scope for resistance; and c) how gendered accounting technologies reaffirm existing gender divisions. Keywords: Accounting; Gender performance; Identity; Workplace; Poetics of space; Politics of space (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:aosoci:v:49:y:2016:i:c:p:1-8 DOI: 10.1016/j.aos.2015.11.004 Access Statistics for this article Accounting, Organizations and Society is currently edited by Christopher Chapman More articles in Accounting, Organizations and Society from Elsevier |
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