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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784588203321

Titolo

Casting the other : the production and maintenance of inequalities in work organizations / / edited by Barbara Czarniawska and Heather Hopfl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

1-134-47764-3

1-134-47765-1

1-280-11119-4

0-203-99422-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Management, organizations and society

Altri autori (Persone)

Czarniawska-JoergesBarbara

HopflHeather

Disciplina

331.133

658.30082

Soggetti

Sex discrimination in employment

Sex role in the work environment

Sexual division of labor

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Casting the Other: introduction; How do statistical aggregates work? About the individual and organizational effects of general classifications; Gender order and disorder: the articulation of women and disorder as resources in the establishment of new medical practices; The construction of the female entrepreneur as the Other; Keeping the veil of otherness: practising disconnection; Construction of gender in corporations

Individual vs collective action: gender inequality and women's action strategies in German and Swedish business firmsGender-neutral gender and denial of the difference; The Black Engel: women from the ruins of the National Board of Building; The business case for diversity and the 'Iron Cage'; Casting the native subject: ethnographic practice and the (re)production of difference; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Casting the Other: Maintaining Gender Inequalities in the Workplace



focuses on the production and maintenance of gender inequalities in organizations.  By emphasizing 'difference' as something to be managed many organizations institute the 'problem of difference', and while orgainzations pay lip-service to ideas of equality, their day-to-day practices may be unchanged and unchallenged. Discrimination of various groups such as women, immigrants and older people continues and its dynamics remain unclear, largely because of the difficulties of studying it in the field. Additionally, vari