This is (still) a man's world: Young professional women's identity struggles in gendered workplaces

N Chowdhury, K Gibson - Feminism & Psychology, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent research has documented the rise of neoliberal and postfeminist sensibilities within
young women's sense-making and accounting activities in western countries–exemplified by …

“It hits me in the weirdest moments”: How future female workers experience loss in times of planetary crisis

S Kishik, JG Pors - Gender, Work & Organization, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This paper explores how looming planetary crises become present in the lived experiences
of future female workers, and how such experiences condition performances of viable …

Who we are at work: millennial women, everyday inequalities and insecure work

N Worth - Gender, Place & Culture, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Based on research with millennial women in Canada, this article examines the process of
workplace identity, or (un) conscious strategies of identity management that young women …

IV. Working without sacrifice: acceptance and resistance to dominant discourse around women's occupational risk

B Rickett - Feminism & Psychology, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Writers such as Holmes and Schnurr (2006), have argued that workplaces constitute one of
the more interesting sites where women act out femininities, while at the same time …

Mothers and researchers in the making: Negotiating 'new'motherhood within the 'new'academia

AS Huopalainen, ST Satama - Human Relations, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
How do early-career academic mothers balance the demands of contemporary motherhood
and academia? More generally, how do working mothers develop their embodied selves in …

Splitting and blaming: The psychic life of neoliberal executive women

DT Baker, EK Kelan - Human Relations, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
The aim of the article is to explore the psychic life of executive women under neoliberalism
using psychosocial approaches. The article shows how, despite enduring unfair treatment …

Young women's negotiations of gender, the body and the labour market in a post-feminist context

J Crofts, J Coffey - Journal of Gender Studies, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
This article explores the ways the body and femininity is understood and negotiated in
relation to employment. This article draws on interview data from an Australian study which …

Identity work by a young petite female academic home comer: Quest for social power in masculine settings

N Liyanagamage, M Fernando - Qualitative Research in …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose How do females with multiple sources of identity deal with intersectional identity
tensions and perceived lack of access to social power? The study focuses on how social …

Solo‐living and childless professional women: Navigating the 'balanced mother ideal'over the fertile years

K Wilkinson, J Rouse - Gender, Work & Organization, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
One in five women are childless at midlife, and for an estimated 90 percent of these women,
childlessness is not actively chosen. In this article, we explore how solo‐living and childless …

Giving up: How gendered organizational cultures push mothers out

E Cahusac, S Kanji - Gender, Work & Organization, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Explanations for professional and managerial mothers' departure from paid work
concentrate on childcare and women's preferences or choices. In contrast, our study, based …