Sociology 2169 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Human Capital, Queueing Theory, Joan Acker
8 Apr 2016
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People have built on this work by joan acker, it has been critiqued. Came up with ways in which the workplace are gendered. What advantage and disadvantage, exploitation and control, action and emotion, and meaning and identify are patterned through and in terms of a distinction between male and female, masculine and feminine. (146) And these distinctions unavoidably perpetuate gender inequalities. 5 ways in which workplaces are inherently gendered. Numbers, statistics of the organization are gendered. Advertisements produces an imagine of gendered organization. Traditional organizational logic jobs and hierarchies are based on abstract categories with no occupants, gender, human bodies, sexuality. Acker workers cannot be disembodied because they have deeply sexed/ gendered bodies. Dissembled worker is actually the male worker. Criteria for evaluation/ advancement are gendered criteria cloaked as. Ranson (2005) the experience of women engineers. Salzinger (2002) mexican factories are gendered and sexualized. Generalizes too much some bureaucratic organizations are not that bad.
