... with various intersecting identities understood their employment possibilities and choices. Originality/value By focusing on discourses of early work experiences, we illustrate how young adults make sense of their trajectories exploring understandings of privilege along with oppression in uneven power...

...-victimization and suppression of memory that Western political and cultural traditions have installed through their mechanisms of power. Design/methodology/approach Based on the analysis of the cases of Inés Fernández Ortega and Valentina Rosendo Cantú, they establish the material conditions from which...

... and such transnational movements, the ways in which SH is actually understood and combated are likely to be different in disparate National Business Systems (NBS). Through the analysis, the authors unpack these differences by paying specific attention to the multilevel power dynamics shaping how employers and their key...

...Margaret S. Stockdale; Declan O. Gilmer; Tuyen K. Dinh Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine two forms of power construal – self-focused and other-focused power – on effects of increasing or decreasing sex-based harassment (SBH) tendencies through feeling states triggered by imagining...

... into how organizational dynamics of power and hierarchy influence change efforts to alter practices of inequality. The study is positioned within critical diversity research and structured around an analysis of the researcher’s fieldwork experiences. Findings The analysis examines into why change...

... research methods, the empirical material was collected in an international manufacturing corporation based in Sweden. It consists of three different, but interconnected approaches: archival research, interviews and observations. Findings – The paper shows that in neglecting power, identity...

... the legitimacy of such claims. Originality/value – Anti-oppressive theorising has, for the most part, constructed minority group members as passive victims within hierarchical power relationships. While acknowledging how power is unequally distributed, the paper challenges hierarchical models which...

... in the update of the notion of gender subtext. The discussion focuses on three elements in particular: the entrance of intersectionality, the disappearance of the layered processes and the prevailing persistency of power. Findings The paper concludes that the original concept of gender subtext as a power...

... in current literature, focusing in particular on socio‐cultural, organizational and individual differences models, and seeks to examine the interaction between various factors identified. Discusses the main effects of power distance, attitudes towards women and gender/job match on sexual harassment...

... of men and masculinities; and concludes with men's responses to these changes, in men's groups, and mixed group and organisational contexts. © MCB UP Limited 1989 Men Masculinity Leadership Feminism Power Equal Opportunities International Vol. 8 Number 1 1989 3 LEADING QUESTIONS FOR MEN...

...Brian McAndrew The author concludes that what drives men to the top is not helpful in leading and changing organisations. He challenges, however, the notion that solutions start with powerful men withholding good leadership. He advocates that environments which encourage all to act powerfully...

...Julia Cutmore‐Smith “The dark” has long been associated with women. An attempt is made here to show how the “dark” can be seen as a valuable and significant concept for women understanding themselves as women and their situation for developing a view towards the concept of “power”. Women, as women...