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In this article, drawing on 20 interviews with participants in the #MeToo petitions #deadline and #konstnärligfrihet [artistic freedom], we explore the significance of sexual harassment in Sweden's cultural and creative industries. Our findings demonstrate how sexual harassment serves as a particularly effective tool of oppression in precarious work situations where individuals rely on informal social networks to secure work. To obtain and sustain work in this environment, an individual must gain recognition as an important—preferably indispensable—part of this social fabric. These dynamics can be understood through a bodily ontology of vulnerability, where vulnerability serves both as the emotional glue holding these networks together and as a source of anxiety, as inclusion depends on the validation of others. Another distinctive aspect of these contexts is the commodification of vulnerability within the professional role, as the value being exchanged is largely tied to the individual's perceived brilliance. Under these working conditions, sexual harassment functions as a form of reification, damaging relationships within the network while simultaneously diminishing the value of participants’ “genius.” #MeToo activism served as a means of resisting the reification process by recognizing a collective vulnerability.

There is now a substantial body of feminist scholarship which has significantly advanced the field of gender-related research. However, this scholarship has primarily been developed from a Western perspective, and there have been increasing calls for decolonizing feminist theory and praxis across all areas of scholarship, policy, and activism. This commentary and call for action through a special issue in Gender, Work & Organization aim to (1) examine how dominant strands of White feminism have systematically marginalized non-Western feminist epistemologies through epistemic exclusion, representational tokenism, and sanctioned ignorance; and (2) explore how we can move forward to reshape the feminism field into a more inclusive one with diverse voices, epistemologies, and theorization that are reflective of local challenges, conditions, struggles, and progress.

Women entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia face significant challenges: legal, regulatory, social, and others related to the traditional family norms. Despite these constraints, many women succeed. Using a social constructionist feminist lens, we analyze the experiences of 27 women entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia, focusing on their ethnic/tribal origin and related religious ideology to answer the question: How do Saudi women from tribal origin develop an entrepreneurial identity? Through a qualitative-interpretivist approach, we explore the narratives of women from tribal origins who start businesses and examine how their tribal and gender identities shape their entrepreneurial identity. Using the metatheoretical framework of liminality, we identify three phases of entrepreneurial identity formation for tribal women: separation, transition, and incorporation. We discuss the conditions prompting separation from their tribal and gender identity, the dynamics of identity work during the transition phase, and the issues faced in the incorporation phase. Our findings offer new insights into identity work in entrepreneurship by analyzing the interplay between gender and tribalism, we show that women from tribal backgrounds encounter great barriers and engage in identity work to incorporate their entrepreneurial identity.

Gender inequalities are a persistent barrier to career progression, including in industries predominantly occupied by women. This study used a Delphi study in the United Kingdom and Australia to analyze women's experiences of careers in the event industry—an inherently gendered context. We show that societal and business factors combine to create gendered inequality regimes, and this creates a wicked problem—women make up most of the workforce, but this is not reflected in the number of women in senior roles. This exploratory research suggests that women in events employ denial as an identity-preservation strategy to cope with pervasive gender identity threats. This denial impacts women's individual career progression, as well as undermining collective struggles against group discrimination. We conclude by proposing a new model that explains contributing factors to gendered discrimination in female-dominated industries, perspectives that can explain the adoption of denial as a coping strategy for women developing their careers within this, and the ways in which this can support the persistence of gendered inequality regimes.

This paper explores the cultivation of joy on the margins of academia via the provision of holistic writing retreats for academic caregivers marked by community, care, and embodiment. The retreats operate as fugitive spaces away from the uncaring structures that shape everyday academia, ones in which we cultivate a different way of being/doing academic life. By slowing time, academic retreats allow attendees to connect more with themselves as well as one another and to reencounter their research in different ways. The provision of care for academic caregivers unused to receiving care is a radical move that interrupts academia-as-usual in powerful ways. In part one, we examine the ways that the temporal dimensions of contemporary academia foster a sense of lack that works against academic well-being. In part two, we explore resistance to the temporal regimes of the contemporary academy via the cultivation of a slower academy that prioritizes the whole person, not just the productive neoliberal subject. We argue that by giving the gift of time and supporting the whole person—body, mind, and spirit—academic retreats interrupt the “high-speed university” and create space for the rediscovery of pleasure and joy in the context of community and care. In part three, we acknowledge that our retreats are an exercise in impurity, simultaneously co-opting and being co-opted by neoliberal discourses despite our efforts to de-emphasize and reimagine productivity. However, as university-funded events, the retreats—however impure and messy—enact alternative visions of academic life that shape everyday academia.