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Diversity Research: Theorizing the New Frontier in Sexual Orientation Diversity
Introduction
This virtual special issue brings together seven recent papers that variously address issues of sexual and gender identity in organisations. The journal has long analysed these issues, for example, in a paper by Vincke and Bolton on gay men published in September 1994. The present seven have been chosen because they are up to date, they all offer empirical evidence, and they provide complementary perspectives in terms of theory, method and analysis. In relation to theory, some draw on Foucauldian ideas or queer theory while others deploy more conventional management approaches. In relation to method, qualitative inquiry is, given the sensitivity of the relevant issues, naturally much in evidence, but the selection also includes imaginative use of the established method of the field experiment and a survey of company policy and practice. In relation to analysis, the papers highlight the changing dynamics of the politics of sexual identity. Some underline continuing disadvantage and the embedded nature of homophobia; yet others demonstrate that corporate policy can make a difference and that people's own practice, in terms of how they negotiate their identities, can challenge existing norms. We hope to publish further work on these emerging themes in the future.
Professor Paul Edwards, FBA
Virtual Issue Table of Contents
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Do women advance equity? The effect of gender leadership composition on LGBT-friendly policies in American firms
Alison Cook and Christy Glass. July 2016. Volume 69, Issue 7.
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Sexual orientation discrimination in the United Kingdom's labour market: A field experiment
Nick Drydakis. November 2015. Volume 68, Issue 11.
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Queering cross-sex friendships: An analysis of gay and bisexual men's workplace friendships with heterosexual women
Nick Rumens. August 2012. Volume 65, Issue 8.
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Witnesses on the periphery: Young lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer employees witnessing homophobic exchanges in Australian workplaces
Paul Willis. December 2012. Volume 65, Issue 12.
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Sexual orientation discrimination: Exploring the experiences of lesbian, gay and bisexual employees in Turkey
Mustafa Bilgehan Ozturk. August 2011. Volume 64, Issue 8.
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Workplace friendships between men: Gay men's perspectives and experiences
Nick Rumens. October 2010. Volume 63, Issue 10.
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Gay men at work: (Re)constructing the self as professional
Nick Rumens and Deborah Kerfoot. May 2009. Volume 62, Issue 5.
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Women, Men, and Work: Gender Identity and Gender Differences in the Workplace
Introduction
For seventy years, Human Relations has explored social relations in and around work. This set of articles reflects two significant themes in the experience of women and men in work and organizing. First, differences and similarities in relationships at work among women and men have featured prominently. Studies exploring leader‒member interactions and preferences (Elsesser & Lever, 2011), peer friendships among women and men at work (Elsesser & Peplau, 2006), and the organizational advantages of women in leadership such as advancing equality in organizations (Cook & Glass, 2016) and generative union‒management relations (Kirton & Healy, 2012) are four vibrant examples. Second, the role of gender identity in making sense of work emerges as another key theme. Unequal relations continue to play out for women and men in salary negotiations (Barron, 2003) and even in the largely disembodied world of digital entrepreneurship (Dy et al., 2016). Exploring the identity work of pregnant women (Hennekam, 2016) and the intersection of motherhood and work (Kanji & Cahusac, 2015) has provided important insight into social relations in and around work.
Nick Turner
Editor-in-Chief, Human Relations
University of Calgary, Canada
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A Web of opportunity or the same old story? Women digital entrepreneurs and intersectionality theory
Angela Martinez Dy, Susan Marlow and Lee Martin. June 2016. Volume 70, Issue 3.
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Identity transition during pregnancy: The importance of role models
Sophie Hennekam. April 2016. Volume 69, Issue 9.
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Do women advance equity? The effect of gender leadership composition on LGBT-friendly policies in American firms
Alison Cook and Christy Glass. February 2016. Volume 69, Issue 7.
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Who am I?: Mothers' shifting identities, loss and sensemaking after workplace exit
Shireen Kanji and Emma Cahusac. March 2015. Volume 68, Issue 9.
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'Lift as you rise': Union women's leadership talk
Gill Kirton and Geraldine Healy. June 2012. Volume 65 Issue 8.
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Does gender bias against female leaders persist? Quantitative and qualitative data from a large-scale survey
Kim M Elsesser and Janet Lever. November 2011. Volume 64, Issue 12.
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The glass partition: Obstacles to cross-sex friendships at work
Kim M Elsesser and Letitia Anne Peplau. August 2006. Volume 59, Issue 8.
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Ask and you shall receive? Gender differences in negotiators' beliefs about requests for a higher salary
Lisa A Barron. June 2003. Volume 56, Issue 6.
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Best wishes,
Claire
Claire Castle, Managing Editor, Human Relations, Tavistock Institute of Human Relations
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