Encountering sexual and religious abjection: Exploring barriers to career among heterosexual and LGBTQ+ professionals of faith

这项研究的实证目的是超越性别和种族的交叉轴心，通过探索什么是同性恋或异性恋信仰者的经历，并捕捉宗教的间隙以及社会构建的好母亲和职业精神概念如何随着时间的推移影响这些人的就业经历。因此，这项拟议的研究解决了在其方法上既要跨学科又要跨部门研究的迫切需要。目前的管理研究没有充分认识到差异之间关系的复杂性。因此，为了更好地理解体现多种形式差异或所谓的群体内多样性的工人的就业经验，需要采取一种交叉的方法(Ozbilgin等人，2011年)。具体地说，这项研究将呼吁对“宗教少数群体”、“非异性恋个人”、母亲身份和“非传统家庭形式”的经历进行更多定性的跨学科研究(Ozbilgin等人，2011：184)。现有的关于组织中性行为的研究通常假设LGBTQ+是白人(McFadden，2015)。同样，学术研究已经开始考虑母亲的能力--女性怀孕、月经和更年期的潜力--如何限制职业发展。事实证明，作为内在服从的一种形式，女性感到有压力控制她们的“母体”，以符合专业标准(Gatrell，2019年)。然而，多样性和管理文献尚未对职业压力、性取向、宗教、母性角色和内在服从之间的联系提供一致的理解。拟议的研究开始通过阐明LGBTQ+和信仰异性恋专业人员的经历来解决这些差距。交叉研究设计被认为是阐明多样性的多个维度如何相互作用从而产生民族宗教专业人员的组织不平等的有价值的方法(Arifeen和Gatrell，2013)。UKRI的2020年平等、多样性和包容性(EDI)研究证据审查强调了种族骚扰和LGBTQ+歧视是如何持续存在的，而宗教的影响在组织研究中受到的关注有限。这与学术呼声相呼应(同上)为了超越性别和种族的交叉轴线，将采用一种创新的多方法定性方法，使用数字日记和半结构化访谈(Radcliffe，2013)。高质量的数字日记将为现有的关于工作、身份和家庭的管理文献提供新的见解，提供丰富的插曲数据，以传统方法无法提供的方式动态捕捉工作需求、个人和家庭责任之间的关系。质量日记提供即时性的优势，有助于参与者的反身性--这意味着能够更深入地理解他们工作-生活动态的整体性质，抵消回顾记录的问题，并使最近发生的事件或工作-生活谈判的日常做法能够被详细回忆(同上)。通过解释母性角色、宗教、性取向和按性别划分的组织结构的复杂交集来扩展交叉性理论，将为多样性和管理研究提供新的理论视角。我的研究还将提供战略基础，使政策制定者、企业和外部利益相关者能够更好地理解、衡量和促进有助于提高英国生产率和工人福祉的可持续EDI政府政策。

The empirical aim of this study is to move beyond the intersecting axes of gender and race by exploring experiences of what it is to be a homosexual or heterosexual person of faith and to capture how the interstices of religion and socially constructed notions of 'good motherhood' and 'professionalism' influence these individuals' employment experiences over time. Thus, this proposed study addresses a pressing need for research that is both interdisciplinary and intersectional in its approach. Present management research does not sufficiently recognise the complexities of the relationships among and between difference. An intersectional approach is thus required to better understand the employment experience among workers who embody multiple forms of difference, or what is termed within-group diversity (Özbilgin et al., 2011). Specifically, the research will address calls for more qualitative interdisciplinary research on the experiences of "religious minorities", "non-heterosexual individuals", motherhood and "non-traditional forms of family" (Özbilgin et al., 2011:184).Existing research on sexuality in organisations usually assumes LGBTQ+ are white (McFadden, 2015). Similarly, scholarship has begun to consider how maternal capacity - women's potential for pregnancy, menstruation and menopause - constrain careers. It is established that women feel pressured to control their 'maternal bodies' to conform to standards of professionalism as a form of internalized obedience (Gatrell, 2019). However, diversity and management literature does not yet offer a cohesive understanding of the link between occupational pressures, sexuality, religion, the maternal role and internalised obedience. The proposed research begins to address these gaps by illuminating the experiences of LGBTQ+ and heterosexual professionals of faith.Intersectional research designs are recognised as valuable approaches to illuminate how multiple dimensions of diversity interact to produce organisational inequalities for ethnoreligious professionals (Arifeen and Gatrell, 2013). UKRI's 2020 evidence review on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) research highlights how racial harassment and LGBTQ+ discrimination persists, while the influence of religion has received limited attention in organisational research. This echoes scholarly calls (ibid.) to move beyond the intersecting axes of gender and race.An innovative multi-method qualitative approach will be adopted using digital diaries and semi-structured interviews (Radcliffe, 2013). Qualitative digital diaries will contribute new insights to existing management literature on work, identity, and family by providing rich episodic data that dynamically captures the relationship between work demands, personal and family responsibilities in a way that traditional approaches cannot. Offering the advantage of immediacy, qualitative diaries facilitate participants' reflexivity - meaning the ability to gain a deeper understanding of the holistic nature of their work-life dynamics, offsetting the problems of retrospective accounts and enabling recent events or daily practices of work-life negotiation to be recalled in detail (ibid.).Extending intersectionality theory by explaining the complex intersection of the maternal role, religion, sexuality and gendered organisational structures will offer diversity and management research new theoretical perspectives. My research will also offer a strategic foundation, enabling policymakers, businesses and external stakeholders to better understand, measure and facilitate sustainable EDI government policies that help improve UK productivity and worker well-being.