DECONSTRUCTING ORGANIZATIONAL TABOOS: THE SUPPRESSION OF GENDER CONFLICT IN ORGANIZATIONS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Martin, Joanne
• 署名单位: Stanford University
• 刊物名称: ORGANIZATION SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1047-7039
• DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1.4.339
• 发表日期: 1990
• 页码: 339-359
• 关键词: FEMINISM; GENDER CONFLICT; deconstruction

摘要

This paper begins with a story told by a corporation president to illustrate what his organization was doing to help women employees balance the demands of work and home. The paper deconstructs and reconstructs this story text from a feminist perspective, examining what it says, what it does not say, and what it might have said. This analysis reveals how organizational efforts to help women have suppressed gender conflict and reified false dichotomies between public and private realms of endeavor, suggesting why it has proven so difficult to eradicate gender discrimination in organization. Implications of a feminist perspective for organizational theory are discussed.