Gender Equitable Interactions Online (GEiO): Supporting Gender Equity In Work-based Videoconferencing

GEiO项目调查性别在在线小组会议中的作用。探索性别如何与工作中的视频会议相关的研究仍处于初级阶段。最近的研究表明，随着数字中介工作模式的指数级增长和对视频会议平台的新依赖，组织目前缺乏解决在线不平等待遇的能力，而且缺乏对这些问题的理解、培训或政策。一个关键目标是在目前尚未探索的方式上建立新的跨国证据，在这些方式中，数字视频会议创新可用于支持或抵制工作中的性别不平等。实证研究的问题是：1.在视频会议平台上的在线会议中，性别是如何表现和完成的？2.数字环境的承受能力如何在职业环境中调解他人的过程？3.视频会议平台上的性别互动是如何被使用它们的人理解的？4.人们如何在在线工作会议中实施和抵制性别歧视的职位，特别是那些被认为是性别骚扰和暴力的职位？5.在在线会议环境中，如何利用技术来支持公平的交叉关系？将使用三种不同和互补的方法来探索与工作中的视频会议有关的微观(研究1)、中观(研究2)和宏观(研究3)的性别过程。这包括三种不同的收集数据的方法，以解决五个研究问题的所有方面。研究1将以视频记录的在线工作会议的形式收集数据，这些会议由混合性别群体组成。数据将使用对话分析进行分析。研究小组将与我们的企业合作伙伴(CP)以及每个伙伴国家的一个私营跨国组织合作，作为案例研究。每个国家每个组织的三至五次会议将纳入数据语料库。每次会议最多有10名与会者，其中至少有3名妇女。研究2将使用Q方法来探索共同的理解。它通过使用统计和专题分析技术来做到这一点。参与者(每个国家N=40/50)将通过参与研究1的同一多国组织招募，以进行比较和保持一致。研究3将使用故事完成任务的创新方法来收集数据并对收集的数据进行论述分析。SC使我们能够挖掘社会认知和意义，以及对给定主题的理解。数据将通过安全的在线调查平台(如Qualtrics)收集，该平台的好处是覆盖更广泛、更分散的样本，并能够捕捉社会和文化、宏观层面的意义。因此，这一宏观层面的重点反映在更广泛的抽样战略中，该战略将在每个国家招募至少100名参与者--这是自然科学研究中为生成数据样本而制定的标准。然后，GEIO小组将把三项研究的结果汇集在一起，重新整合到现有文献中，并结合现有文献，对性别互动和视频会议经验的微观、中观和宏观因素进行全面分析。通过按研究和按国家处理数据，这种方法设计将使不同分析水平的跨国比较成为可能。研究结果将为与私营部门组织进行知识交流提供坚实的基础，以制定以证据为基础的培训和政策，更好地回应在数字工作环境中经历过性别歧视的人的需求。将制作经认可的关于网上两性平等互动的微型证书培训课程，并将其翻译成每个合作伙伴所在地使用的语言。

The GEiO project investigates the role of gender in online group meetings. Research exploring the ways in which gender becomes relevant to videoconferencing at work remains in its infancy. Recent research suggests that with the exponential rise in digitally mediated working patterns and new reliance on videoconferencing platforms, organisations are currently ill-equipped to address unequal treatment online and there is a lack of understanding, training or policy around these issues. A key aim is to build new transnational evidence on the currently unexplored ways in which digital videoconferencing innovations can be used to support or resist gender inequity at work. The empirical research questions are:1. How is gender performed and accomplished in online meetings on videoconferencing platforms? 2. How do the affordances of digital environments mediate the processes of othering in professional contexts? 3. How are gendered interactions on videoconferencing platforms understood by those using them? 4. How do people enact and resist gendered positionings in online work meetings, in particular those that are experienced as gendered harassment and violence? 5. How can technologies be used to support equitable intersectional relationships in an online meeting context? Three different and complementary methods will be used to explore the micro (study 1), meso (study 2) and macro (study 3) gendered processes that are relevant to videoconferencing at work. This includes three different approaches to collecting data to address all aspects of the five research questions. Study 1 will collect data in the form of video recorded online work meetings, comprised of mixed gender groups. Data will be analysed using conversation analysis. The research team will work with our corporation partner (CP) as well as one private multinational organisation in each partner country which will serve as a case study. Three to five meetings from each organisation per country will be included in the data corpus. Each meeting will include a maximum of 10 participants of which at least three will be women. Study 2 will use Q methodology to explore shared understandings. It does so through the use of both statistical and thematic analytic techniques. Participants (N = 40/50 per country,) will be recruited through the same multinational organisations taking part in Study 1 for comparison and consistency. Study 3 will use the innovative method of Story Completion (SC) tasks for data collection and discursive analysis of the collected data. SC allows us to tap into social perceptions and meanings, as well as the understandings, on a given topic. Data will be collected via secure online survey platforms (e.g. Qualtrics) which has the benefit of reaching a wider, more geographically dispersed sample, and enables the social and cultural, macro- level, meanings to be captured. This macro level focus is thus reflected in the wider sampling strategy, which will recruit a minimum of 100 participants per nation - an established standard in SC studies for the generation of a data sample. Findings from the three studies will then be brought together, reintegrated and contextualised within the existing literature by the GEiO team to produce an overall analysis of the micro, meso and macro elements of the gendered interactions and experiences of videoconferencing. By approaching the data both by study and by country, this methodological design will enable cross-national comparisons at different levels of analysis.The research findings will provide a firm basis for knowledge exchange with private sector organisations to develop evidence-based training and policy that better respond to the needs of those who have experienced gendered discrimination in a digital work context. An accredited micro credential training course on gender equitable interactions online will be produced and translated into the languages used in each of the partner locations.