The Weaker Sex

Liu Jieyu
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Liu Jieyu: SOAS University of London

Chapter Chapter 4 in Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies, 2017, pp 55-71 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter considers the way in which essentialized gender categories underlie the division of labour, discourses and practices in the foreign trade company. Because gender is understood in a biological nature that ‘is itself a naturalized social construct’ (Bourdieu, P., Masculine domination. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001), masculine domination has become legitimized in the workplace. The consequences are both symbolic and material: despite having equal qualifications, women tend to hold subsidiary positions and thus have limited access to company profits (i.e. bonus and share awards). Yet the collision between ideas ‘received’ from company management and gender stereotypes, and ideas ‘created’ through lived experiences as the only child, became central to the continual interplay between women’s consent and resistance to their experience as wage workers and as women.

Keywords: Class Membership; Sales Manager; Gender Division; Symbolic Power; Gender Expectation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-50575-0_4

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