Between Bytes and Bricks: Gender Cultures in Work Contexts

Barbara Poggio
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Barbara Poggio: Trento University

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2000, vol. 21, issue 3, 381-402

Abstract: In recent decades the western world has witnessed a huge increase in female labour market participation and training. Yet numerous studies report the persistence of inequalities and segregation between women and men in organizations. Analysis of the relationship between gender and organization needs to shift from numerical composition to more detailed examination of how gender is constructed in work contexts. This article discusses the results of a research study on men and women in mainly male-dominated organizations. It shows that gender is a cultural construction and is therefore produced and negotiated in different ways in different organizations. For this purpose, comparisons have been made of the symbolic order of gender of four organizational cultures characterized by profound differences in modes of production, workforce features and cultural traditions.

Keywords: gender; organization culture; segregation; symbolic order of gender (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1177/0143831X00213006

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