An uneven playing field: Experiences of female legal practitioners in Zimbabwe

Maunganidze, Farai; Bonnin, Debby

doi:10.1111/gwao.12535

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“…For example, as one woman in Zimbabwe recounted, in a study analyzing the scope and impacts of sexual harassment of female legal practitioners in her country, "I want work and I would tarnish my reputation so who is going to hire me, oh, she is the one who reported John. " 32…”

Section: Loss Of Employmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Why Ending Sexual Harassment Is Integral to Ending Gender Discrimination

Heymann¹,

Sprague²,

Raub³

2023

Equality Within Our Lifetimes: How Laws and Policies Can Close—or Widen—Gender Gaps in Economies Worldwide

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When Jeanette Moznik and six other women joined the fire department in Richmond, British Columbia, after a merger of two units in 1995, they made history: never before had any women served as firefighters with Richmond Fire-Rescue. 1 Unfortunately, it wasn't long before their male colleagues ensured they felt not only unwelcome but unsafe. The men in the department displayed pornography on the walls. Moznik found a condom filled with an unidentified substance in her locker, accompanied by a threatening note using a misogynistic slur. 2 The men put human feces in her boots and pants. And on one occasion, they cut the water pressure to the hoses she and another female firefighter were using during a live fire. 3 Finally, in 2005, Moznik filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court of British Columbia, alleging "a culture of systemic discrimination and harassment of its female firefighters. " 4 In 2006, the court dismissed her suit, determining that it lacked jurisdiction since her union ought to handle the grievance. Later that year, a mediator published a report that called out the toxic environment and urged a series of practical reforms, such as trainings on equality and harassment and separate washrooms for the female firefighters, while underscoring the need for steps leading to an overall culture change. 5 The mediator's report seems to have had some impact. Between 2007 and 2019, the department began recruiting more women, who accounted for 17 percent of total hires. 6 Nevertheless, for Moznik and the other women who joined Richmond Fire-Rescue in 1995, the damage had been done. By the time the report was issued,

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Section: Loss Of Employmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Why Ending Sexual Harassment Is Integral to Ending Gender Discrimination

Heymann¹,

Sprague²,

Raub³

2023

Equality Within Our Lifetimes: How Laws and Policies Can Close—or Widen—Gender Gaps in Economies Worldwide

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“…This language of misleading transparency allows scholars and practitioners alike to put words to the experience of seeing a career pathway for women but being somehow precluded from advancing. The concept of the glass ceiling is still widely used by academics and industry today and has been used across a wide variety of professional contexts, including management (Powell & Butterfield, 1994), accounting (Cohen et al., 2020), engineering (Cardador, 2017; Faulkner, 2000), academia (Clavero & Galligan, 2021), and law (Ballakrishnan, 2017; Maunganidze & Bonnin, 2021; Tomlinson et al., 2013).…”

Section: Glass: An Architectural and Conceptual Materialsmentioning

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“This boys club world is finally getting to me”: Developing our glass consciousness to understand women's experiences in elite architecture firms

Ahuja

Weatherall

2022

Gender Work & Organization

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In this article, we take inspiration from the evolution of the material use of glass to explore how the metaphorical use of glass could be developed to understand the emerging struggles of women in architecture. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews of architects employed in professional service firms, we suggest that the multi‐faceted nature of glass helped us to identify and understand the complex experiences of inequality for women in architecture. In so doing, we make three contributions to scholarship on gender, work, and organizations. First, we demonstrate how glass barriers were truly material in their consequences for senior women, as they prevented their rise or initiated their decline. A focus on glass barriers, however, did not fully account for the experiences of younger women in these firms. Surprisingly, and in stark contrast to the “boys club world” that left many senior women in architecture with a fractured sense of self as they struggled to construct self‐affirming identities as both women and architects, we found that the exclusive use of new technologies enabled younger women architects to melt some aspects of the traditional identity and turn them into new forms. Our conceptualization of “technologies of glass” draws attention to the social, cultural, and technological resources that younger women deploy to construct a strong professional identity in the changing world of architecture. We argue that glass can be understood not just as a constraint but as a multifaceted material with limitless possibilities for design. Thus, by highlighting the material‐symbolic entanglements of the use of glass, we strengthen and refresh the metaphor of glass, to better understand the fluidity of contemporary challenges facing professional women at work.

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