Equal Opportunities International: Volume 23 Issue 3/4/5

When women “baby‐sit” and men “transmit knowledge and discipline”: the construction of gender in Hong Kong’s primary schools

Anita Kit‐wa Chan

This paper, based on forty in‐depth interviews with teachers and principals in Hong Kong, utilizes the insights of feminist organization studies to explore the persistence of…

Sociability, work, and gender

Amy Maria Blackstone

Sociability work, defined as the work involved in putting on community and charity events, provides one example of the intersections among gender and work. Yet sociologists have…

Job exit queues: corporate mergers and gender inequality

Terceira A. Berdahl, Helen A. Moore

Purpose: to explore the experiences of employees in a local bank merger in the United States and examine the concept of job exit queues. We introduce the concept of a job exit…

Women treated differently: why the “reasonable woman” standard might not be reasonable

Elizabeth A. Hoffmann

Sexual harassment law addresses hostile environments by evaluating whether the workplace environment would be considered hostile by a “reasonable woman”. But who is a reasonable…

Gendering processes in immigration for Chinese American and Japanese American women

Julie Dona, Susan J. Ferguson

Structural factors during Chinese and Japanese immigration and settlement processes required families to adapt in ways that altered traditional gender behaviors. This study…

“You have to work at work: the economic strategies of black workers in Philadelphia”

Maggie R. Ussery

Using in‐depth life history interviews, this paper examines how workingclass black workers get jobs. It also offers an analysis of the ways networks generate resource information…

Balancing without a net in academia: integrating family and work lives

Mary L. Gatta, Patricia A. Roos

This paper presents qualitative data from a gender equity study at a Carnegie I research institution. In this paper we draw on interview data to explore the ways that our sample…

Person or position?: the demographics of sexual harassment in the workplace

Marla H. Kohlman

This study contributes to the literature on sexual harassment by explicitly modeling race as a significant predictor of sexual harassment in combination with gender and…

Derogatory stereotypic beliefs and evaluations of male nurses

Scott T. Allison, James K. Beggan, Carolyn Clements

One reason for the severe short age of nurses is the un will ing ness of males to pursue the profession in great numbers. This article explores people’s negative stereotypic…

Work and welfare participation in a post welfare‐to‐work era

Juan Onésimo Sandoval

This article examines the impact of the 1996 welfare‐to‐work law on women’s work and welfare outcomes. I investigate four welfare and work outcomes: (1) off welfare and employed;…