Doctoral Dissertation Research: Gender and Institutional Emergence in Global Legal Practices

随着在全球范围内建立新的机构，有关性别包容的做法可以一如既往地继续下去，也可以通过在与具有既定做法的机构不同的背景下新建立的做法进行转变。特别是，新兴跨国公司中涉及性别包容的做法的全球化似乎产生了不同的结果，而不是仅仅将商业做法分析为国内的结果。本项目将分析一个全球化的大民族国家的包容实践，假设全球规范超越了主导的地方排斥实践。本研究通过对不同组织机构的过去和现在的专业人士进行深入访谈和新的调查数据，探索了解释新专业空间中的制度出现和平等主义优势的比较框架。由于不平等主义规范和可能出现的平等主义实践之间的不和谐，这个项目具有经验意义。从理论上讲，调查这些组织和避免了持续存在的性别启动障碍的妇女具有重要意义，因为它涉及组织创新、性别分层和全球化对新兴市场的影响这三个重要对话。就业实践的公平问题对公共政策很重要。新的背景下，如跨国公司提供了一个机会来测试新制度理论有关全球化，组织的出现，以及组织规范和实践之间的松散耦合。

As new institutions are created in a global world, practices concerning inclusion by gender can continue as they have been or they can be transformed by having newly been created in a different context from instituions with established practices. In particular, the globalization of practices concerning inclusion by gender in emergent transnational firms seem to have different outcomes than might have been expected by analyzing business practices as solely domestic. This project will analyze practices of inclusion in a large globalizing national state, hypothesizing that global norms override dominant local practices of exclusion. Using in-depth interviews and new survey data with past and present professionals in different organizational sites, this research explores comparative frameworks to explain institutional emergence and egalitarian advantage in new professional spaces. This project is empirically significant because of the dissonance between inegalitarian norms and what may be emergent egalitarian practices. Investigating these organizations and women who have avoided otherwise persistent gender-priming obstacles is theoretically significant because it speaks to three important conversations on organizational innovation, gender stratification and the influence of globalization in emerging markets. The question of equity of practices in employment is important to public policy.New contexts such as transnational firms provide and opportunity to test neo-institutional theorizing concerning globalization, organizational emergence, and loose coupling between organizational norms and practices.