Gendered work in geoscience: Hard work in a masculine field

IF 3.9 1区 社会学 Q2 MANAGEMENT Gender Work and Organization Pub Date : 2023-08-04 DOI:10.1111/gwao.13052
Samuel Heimann, Kristina Johansson
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Based on the meaning-making of women geoscientists in their descriptions of work and career experiences, this article explores the gendering of geoscience by analyzing women's hard work as a theoretical concept. Our findings show that the gendered requirements for women in geoscience involve “doing” various forms of hard work, including making one's work visible, asserting one's physical performance, and building social relations. Thus, hard work is found to be gendered in terms of being a perceived requirement shared by female geoscientists. It is a requirement that entails compensating for not being male in masculine organizations and simultaneously prevents women geoscientists from fully engaging in core geoscience work tasks. Hence, by gendering hard work and theoretically defining hard work as the work of the “other”, the study expands the theoretical understanding of the concept by suggesting that women's hard work is gendered and social rather than productive.

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地球科学中的性别工作:男性领域的艰苦工作
本文以女性地球科学家在描述工作和职业经历时的意义建构为基础,通过分析女性辛勤工作这一理论概念,探讨了地球科学的性别化问题。我们的研究结果表明,地质科学领域对女性的性别要求涉及 "做 "各种形式的艰苦工作,包括使自己的工作引人注目、坚持自己的身体表现和建立社会关系。因此,艰苦工作被认为是女性地质科学家共同的性别要求。在男性组织中,这种要求是对非男性的一种补偿,同时也阻碍了女性地球科学家充分参与地球科学的核心工作任务。因此,通过将艰苦工作性别化,并从理论上将艰苦工作定义为 "他人 "的工作,本研究扩展了对这一概念的理论理解,认为女性的艰苦工作是性别化和社会性的,而不是生产性的。
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期刊介绍: Gender, Work & Organization is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal. The journal was established in 1994 and is published by John Wiley & Sons. It covers research on the role of gender on the workfloor. In addition to the regular issues, the journal publishes several special issues per year and has new section, Feminist Frontiers,dedicated to contemporary conversations and topics in feminism.
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