Dear Colleagues
I wish to bring to your attention our call ( attached and summary enclosed) for the Gender & Diversity stream of EGOS (European Group of Organisation Studies) that will be in Helsinki in July 2012.
Short papers (3000 words) need to be submitted by mid January
We look forward to receiving your thoughts
Very best wishes
Judith Susan and Julia
Challenging Inequality: Changing Gender and Organizations
This sub-theme is dedicated to understanding how change can take place to disrupt the recurring gender order. Is the fusion of gendered identity and workplace practice unshakeable? We will focus on the (impossibilities) of changing gendered inequalities within organizations. Gendered inequality may be apparent within interpersonal relations at work, the organization of gender, and the gendering of organizations. A focus on gendered inequalities may mask other connected inequalities within organizations that occur because of race, ethnicity, age, sexuality and other key aspects of social identity...
Papers submitted to this sub-theme will address gender change in organizations and may include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
1. What kind of feminisms do we find in today's organizations and how do they contribute to change or persistence of the gendered organization?
2. How does change within gendered organisations contribute to uncover less visible forms of discrimination and exclusion such as aspects of sexuality, disabilities, race, age, and non-verbal shifts in social interactions?
3. How is change in organizations initiated, facilitated and fostered?
4. How do organizational strategies such as equal opportunities, gender mainstreaming or diversity management contribute to change (or rather resistance and/or persistence)?
5. How do individual change agents, perhaps the (un)tempered radical (Meyerson and Scully, 1995), shift and resist gendered norms?
6. How do change activities take resistance into account, how is it experienced and what are the consequences?
7. In what respect does organizational context or culture influence opportunities for action?
8. In what ways does resistance against dominant gender norms contribute to the (un)doing of gender and hence provide a potential for change?