Policy and organisation

Work and Organization is a comprehensive and expanding field of research within gender studies. This research examines dynamics and processes in professions, workplaces, organizations, and in relation to leadership. It examines how gender and other power structures shape and are shaped by work and workplace organization in different contexts and in cross-country comparisons. Research in this field examines, among other things, how discourses, identities, practices and knowledge production affects organizations and those who work in them. Among the research themes are processes of professionalization, gender equality work, women’s networking and entrepreneurship.

Further, this field includes analyses of unpaid work, what is counted as work, and how the sexual division of labour affect the conditions of women and men, and how the capitalist system relies on gendered and unpaid work which is legitimized and institutionalized through notions of public and private.