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

本研究的实证目的是超越性别和种族的交叉轴，探索什么是一个同性恋或异性恋的信仰的人的经验，并捕捉宗教和社会构建的“好母亲”和“专业”的概念的间隙如何影响这些人的就业经历随着时间的推移。因此，这项拟议的研究解决了迫切需要的研究，是跨学科和交叉的方法。目前的管理研究没有充分认识到差异之间的复杂关系。因此，需要一种跨部门的方法，以更好地了解体现多种形式差异的工人的就业经验，或所谓的群体内多样性（Özbilgin等人，2011年）。具体而言，这项研究将回应对“宗教少数群体”、“非异性恋者”、母亲和“非传统家庭形式”的经历进行更多定性跨学科研究的呼吁（Özbilgin等人，关于组织中性行为的现有研究通常假设LGBTQ+是白色（McFadden，2015年）。同样，学术界已经开始考虑母性能力-妇女怀孕、月经和更年期的潜力-如何制约职业。据证实，女性感到有压力控制自己的“母性身体”，以符合专业标准，作为一种内化的服从形式（Gatrell，2019）。然而，多样性和管理文学还没有提供一个有凝聚力的理解之间的联系，职业压力，性，宗教，母亲的角色和内在的服从。拟议的研究开始通过阐明LGBTQ+和异性恋信仰专业人士的经验来解决这些差距。交叉研究设计被认为是有价值的方法，可以阐明多样性的多个维度如何相互作用，为种族宗教专业人士产生组织不平等（Arifeen和Gatrell，2013）。UKRI 2020年关于平等、多样性和包容性（EDI）研究的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。这呼应了学术呼吁（同上）。超越性别和种族的交叉轴。将采用创新的多方法定性方法，使用数字日记和半结构化访谈（拉德克利夫，2013年）。定性数字日记将为现有的工作、身份和家庭管理文献提供新的见解，提供丰富的情景数据，以传统方法无法实现的方式动态捕捉工作需求、个人和家庭责任之间的关系。定性日记具有即时性的优势，有助于参与者的反思性-这意味着能够更深入地了解其工作-生活动态的整体性质，弥补回顾性叙述的问题，并使最近的事件或工作-生活谈判的日常做法能够详细回忆起来（同上）。通过解释母性角色、宗教、性和性别化组织结构的复杂交叉点来扩展交叉性理论，将为多样性和管理研究提供新的理论视角。我的研究还将提供一个战略基础，使政策制定者，企业和外部利益相关者能够更好地理解，衡量和促进可持续的EDI政府政策，帮助提高英国的生产力和工人的福祉。

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.