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Sub-theme 47:

Changing Gender, Gendering Change

 

Convenors:

Yvonne Benschop
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (The Netherlands)
y.benschop@fm.ru.nl

Albert Mills
St Mary's University Halifax (Canada)
albert.mills@smu.ca

Jean Helms Mills
St Mary's University Halifax (Canada)
jean.mills@smu.ca

Janne Tienari
Helsinki School of Economics (Finland)
janne.tienari@hse.fi


 

Session I: Thursday, July 10 – 11:00–12:30
Dueling Discourses

Chair: Janne Tienari

Introduction

Ngaire Bissett
Privileging the 'feminine': A quiet revolution?
Discussant: Francis Tomlinson

Annalisa Murgia and Barbara Poggio
Upsetting careers. Practices and policies to tackle vertical gender segregation
Discussant: Ngaire Bissett

Frances Tomlinson, Kiran Kalsi, Fiona Colgan, Hilary Farnworth and Ann Reynard
Becoming an entrepreneur: The intersection of age and gender in the accounts of older women moving into self-employment
Discussant: Annalisa Murgia
 

Session II: Thursday, July 10 – 14:00–15:30
Organizational Policies

Chair: Jean Helms Mills

Mustafa Ozbilgin and Ahu Tatli
Opening up opportunities or just passing the buck: The case of equal opportunities in the private recruitment sector in Britain
Discussant: Hanna Ylöstalo

Robyn Remke
Challenging the changing workplace: Rethinking family leave policies for knowledge worker
Discussant: Mustafa Ozbilgin

Hanna Ylöstalo
Intersectionality in gender equality development process: A challenge for feminist theory and practice
Discussant: Robyn Remke
 

Session III: Friday, July 11 – 9:00–10:30
Successful Change?

Chair: Yvonne Benschop

Ronit Kark and Galia Shiloach
Now you see it, now you don't: Feminism disappeared in a case study of the organizing of 'Women Renewing Management'
Dicussant: Kelly Dye

Kelly Dye and Albert J. Mills
Dueling discourses at work: Upsetting the gender order
Discussant: Ronit Kark
 

Session IV: Friday, July 11 – 14:00–15:30
Care and 'Women's Work'

Chair: Albert Mills

Margarete Arndt
Changing the social identity of hospital administration: The role of education in the occupation's masculinization
Discussant: Sinikka Pesonen

Ruth Simpson
The making and marking of men's bodies in the context of nursing care
Discussant: Margarete Arndt

Sinikka Pesonen, Elina Henttonen, Kirsi LaPointe and Sinikka Vanhala
A stain in the white uniform – Or change in the discourse of a gendered profession?
Discussant: Ruth Simpson
 

Session V: Friday, July 11 – 16:15–17:45
ICT and 'Women'

Chair: Yvonne Benschop

Päivi Eriksson, Elina Henttonen and Susan Meriläinen
Women and innovation: Transforming a tale of terror into a tale of joy
Disccusant: Yvonne Due Billing

Yvonne Guerrier, Christina Evans, Judith Glover and Cornelia Wilson
Women in IT: "Not a problem we've ever solved"
Discussant: Päivi Eriksson

Yvonne Due Billing
The disappearing women? A study of gender dynamics in a Scandinavian organization
Discussant: Yvonne Guerrier
 

Session VI: Saturday, July 12 – 9:00–10:30
Coalitions, Networks and Boys' Clubs

Chair: Janne Tienari

Jim Barry, Elisabeth Berg and John Chandler
Movement and coalition in contention: Gender, management and academe in England and Sweden
Discussant: Donna Boone Parsons

Marieke van den Brink, Yvonne Benschop and Willy Janssen
Transparency in academic recruitment: A toll for gender equality?
Discussant: Jim Barry

Donna Boone Parsons and Albert J. Mills
"It's in the paper!" Gendered order, change, and the role of the in-house magazine: Rotary International, 1987–2007
Discussant: Marieke van den Brink
 

Session VII: Saturday, July 12 – 11:15–12:45
Studying Ourselves and/in Our Academic Organizations

Chair: Jean Helms Mills

Elizabeth Parsons and Vincenza Priola
Agents for change and changed agents: Women's experiences of researching their own organisations
Discussant: Regine Bendl

Saija Katila and Susan Meriläinen
Changing organizations through changing identities: Does it work?
Discussant: Elizabeth Parsons

Regine Bendl and Angelika Schmidt
The inclusion of gender and diversity issues in research and teaching: Organizational changes at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
Discussant: Saija Katila

 

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