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

随着新机构在全球化世界中的建立，有关性别包容的做法可以继续沿用，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来改变。 特别是，全球化的做法有关纳入新兴的跨国公司的性别似乎有不同的结果，比可能已经通过分析商业惯例作为唯一的国内预期。 这个项目将分析在一个大型的全球化民族国家的包容性的做法，假设全球规范凌驾于主导的地方做法的排斥。本研究通过对不同组织场所的过去和现在的专业人员进行深入访谈和新的调查数据，探索了解释新专业空间中机构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，这个项目在经验上具有重要意义。 调查这些组织和避免了持续存在的性别引发障碍的女性在理论上具有重要意义，因为它涉及到关于组织创新、性别分层和全球化对新兴市场影响的三个重要对话。 就业实践的公平性问题对公共政策很重要，跨国公司等新环境提供了检验有关全球化、组织涌现以及组织规范与实践之间松散耦合的新制度理论的机会。

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.