...Harish Jyawali Purpose This study examines why and how female chefs in professional kitchens in the United Kingdom engage in job crafting to navigate, resist and reconfigure male-defined norms that structure competence and belonging in male-dominated occupational contexts. Design/methodology...

.... Findings These women engaged in both identity work and job crafting, transforming their self-meanings and working lives, in line with the principles of slow academia. This was enabled by changes in the spaces and temporalities of work afforded by the pandemic, which provided a conducive context...