Theorizing gender desegregation as political work: The case of the Welsh Labour Party

Theorizing gender desegregation as political work: The case of the Welsh Labour Party

Organization studies offers a detailed understanding of the roots of gender segregation and the obstacles to its dismantling in practice but has not proposed a conceptual framework that can help us understand how radical forms of desegregation may be made sense of and approached, particularly within...

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Published in:Gender, work, and organization work, and organization, 2022-11, Vol.29 (6), p.1747-1763
Main Authors: Smolović Jones, Owain, Jones, Sanela Smolović, Taylor, Scott, Yarrow, Emily
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Affirmative action
Chantal Mouffe
Desegregation
Discrimination
gender desegregation
Gender segregation
Labor parties
positive discrimination
quotas
Sexual division of labor
Walking
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