Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: Volume 31 Issue 3

Celebrating Joan Acker's contribution to theorising gender and organisation

Susan Sayce

The purpose of this editorial is to present a series of articles in this special invited issue that celebrate Joan Acker's theories of gendered organisations.

Joan Acker's review of the contributing papers, edited by Susan Sayce

Joan Acker

This commentary aims to review the contributing papers in this special issue.

Gendered organizations and intersectionality: problems and possibilities

Joan Acker

Theorizing that was conceived in the 1970s about gendered processes in organizations helped explain gender inequalities in organizations. This article aims to take the opportunity…

Gender subtext revisited

Yvonne Benschop, Hans Doorewaard

This paper aims to examine if the notion of gender subtext is still a useful concept to study the implicit processes of gender distinctions in organizations. It also aims to…

Inequality in organizations: stereotyping, discrimination, and labor law exclusions

Daphne Berry, Myrtle P. Bell

The purpose of this article is to highlight inequalities created and sustained through gendered, raced, and classed organizational processes and practices using Joan Acker's work…

Surprising intersectionalities of inequality and privilege: the case of the arts and cultural sector

Ahu Tatli, Mustafa Özbilgin

This paper seeks to explore the difficult territory of intersectionality as it relates to inequality and disadvantage in the labour market of the arts and cultural sector. It aims…

Organizational logic and feminist organizing: stewardesses for women's rights

Donna Boone Parsons, Kathy Sanderson, Jean Helms Mills, Albert J. Mills

Joan Acker proposed her gendered theory of organization as a framework to analyze organizations and to understand how gender underlies organizational structure in such a way as to…

Pleading the fifth: Re‐focusing Acker's gendered substructure through the lens of organizational logic

Kelly Dye, Albert J. Mills

The notion of organizations as gendered is not new yet critical gaps in the understanding of the processes responsible for the creation and maintenance of these gendered…

Being a female pension trustee

Susan Sayce

While there has been much discussion about pension regulation and decision making in relation to pension trusteeship, there appears to be little research on women and men who take…