SOC265H1 Lecture Notes - Lastminute.Com, Double Bind, Hegemonic Masculinity
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White-collar workers, especially managers and professionals are expected to work long hours, arrange their outside responsibilities around their paid work and be willing to relocate or travel as requested. These behaviors signal appropriate devotion to one"s work. These expectations called ideal worker norm" reinforce gender inequality in the workplace. Hegemonic masculinity in white-collar organizations involve publicly privileging a business or professional identity that distances men from day-to-day family caregiving and from blue- collar labor (manual labor) Living up to the ideal worker norm is an important way to enact masculinity-and protect a privileged position- in white collar workplaces and at home. Work-family policies and flexible work arrangements have had a limited impact for several reasons. Higher status employees with high income and better benefits are more likely to have access to work-family benefits. Flexible work arrangements remain a deviation from the norm, framed as accommodations". Rowe is distinctive in both goals and strategies.
