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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"ideal worker"”.
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An investigation of gendered institutions and the ideal worker narrative in the Scottish ICT industry.
… to understand the impact on gender-minority workers and the most effective ways to support those workers at the firm level. Aspects of organisational culture, gendered discourses between workers and horizontal and vertical job divisions are considered in the formulation of an ideal worker …
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Questioning and Disrupting Narratives of Motherhood and Leadership: The Experiences of Deans, Presidents, and Other California Community College Mother-Leaders
… <p>Drawing on the concept of the ideal worker and matricentric feminism’s distinction between mothering and motherhood, I used narrative inquiry to examine the experiences of women who are mothers and community college leaders. I applied a matrifocal approach—i.e., centered on a …
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NEGOTIATING GENDER ACCOUNTABILITY ACROSS CONTEXTS: THE CASE OF THE FORMER COLLEGE ATHLETE
… associates such skills with the masculine-typed ideal worker image. Second, to uncover the degree to which women and men can use a gendered status marker to their advantage at work. Third, to explore the extent to which broader cultural gender norms impede or facilitate the maintenance of one’s …
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Gender Inequities in Academe and Faculty Perceptions of Family-Friendly Policies
… Key constructs that were explored include: the ideal worker norm, the motherhood norm, the maternal wall, and bias avoidance. Methodological limitations and the implications for this study were discussed. The participants of this study were 243 female and male tenure-track and tenured faculty …
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The Limits of Social Citizenship: Unemployment Insurance and the Reproduction of the South African Racial Capitalist State, 1937-2023
… system structured around the needs of the ‘ideal’ White worker to consolidate the South African racial capitalist state in the hands of the White minority. Drawing from Tiffany Willoughby-Herard’s path-defining Waste of a White Skin: The Carnegie Commission and the Racial Logic of White …
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Women's experiences in the gendered environment of outdoor education in Aotearoa New Zealand : "I felt a need to prove my right to be there" : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Education in Adult Education, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
… the competing discourses of good mothering and ideal worker and reassess their priorities.
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Can We Have It All? Painting a Picture of the Adjunct, Clinical, and Tenured/ Tenure-Track Faculty Mother Experience At a Large Southern Public Research University
… have allowed faculty who were men to remain an ideal worker by being dedicated to work regardless of family status because they had a wife to keep up the domestic and childcare duties (Tierney & Bensimon, 1996; Wolf-Wendel & Ward, 2006). Although both men and women have served as faculty members …
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Gender equalities and career progression of indian women in the information and technology sector in India: women's views and perspectives
… family and organisations create the image of an ideal wife/mother and ideal worker, respectively. These two images are at odds with each other, and they pull women in the tug of war. In the workplace there is systemic gender discrimination in terms of work allocation, the promotion process, …
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Performative Parenting: Social Norms and Fathers' Use of Parental Leave Entitlements
… the fathers to cease reproducing the masculine ‘ideal worker’ norm. The micro-level insights documented demonstrate how fathers’ everyday experiences are shaped by cultural backdrop, peer behaviour and forms of social constraint that form the choice architecture that shapes individual decisions. …
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The gendering of work in Sheffield's Cultural Industries Quarter (CIQ)
… of the new economy promotes a version of the ideal worker-the entrepreneur. I examine how the entrepreneur is constructed in policy literature, at conferences and through interview talk, as the archetypal individual with certain personality traits. I demonstrate that the model of the creative …
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Organisational support throughout the maternity journey : the perceptions of female academics in selected UK universities
… review, namely the Gendered Institution and the Ideal worker. In particular, it utilises the Perceived Organisational Support (POS) theory as an analytical tool in understanding employee perceptions concerning the extent to which an organisation values their contribution and cares about their …