HIERARCHIES, JOBS, BODIES: A Theory of Gendered Organizations
HIERARCHIES, JOBS, BODIES: A Theory of Gendered Organizations
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DOI：
10.1177/089124390004002002
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发表时间：
1990-06-01
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影响因子：
5.5
通讯作者：
Acker, Joan
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作者：
Acker, Joan
尽管女权主义者承认等级组织是男性统治的重要场所，但大多数女权主义者在撰写组织时都假设组织结构是性别中立的。本文认为，组织结构不是性别中立的;相反，关于性别的假设是用于构建组织的文件和合同的基础，并为理论化它们提供常识性的基础。它们的性别性质部分地被掩盖，通过模糊工作的具体性质抽象的工作和等级制度，组织思维中的共同概念，假设一个无实体的和普遍的工人。这个工人实际上是一个男人;男人的身体，性，以及与生育和有偿工作的关系都包含在工人的形象中。男子的身体和男子气概的形象充斥着组织进程，使妇女处于边缘地位，并助长了组织中的性别隔离。性别中立和脱离实体的组织结构和工作关系的设定是工业资本主义社会更大的控制战略的一部分，至少部分是建立在性别差异的深层结构上。
In spite of feminist recognition that hierarchical organizations are an important location of male dominance, most feminists writing about organizations assume that organizational structure is gender neutral. This article argues that organizational structure is not gender neutral; on the contrary, assumptions about gender underlie the documents and contracts used to construct organizations and to provide the commonsense ground for theorizing about them, Their gendered nature is partly masked through obscuring the embodied nature of work Abstract jobs and hierarchies, common concepts in organizational thinking, assume a disembodied and universal worker. This worker is actually a man; men's bodies, sexuality, and relationships to procreation and paid work are subsumed in the image of the worker. Images of men bodies and masculinity pervade organizational processes, marginalizing women and contributing to the maintenance of gender segregation in organizations. The positing of gender-neutral and disembodied organizational structures and work relations is part of the larger strategy of control in industrial capitalist societies, which, at least partly, are built upon a deeply embedded substructure of gender difference.