Between the sticky floor and the glass ceiling: employment of women as mid-level managers in Israeli non-profit organisations

Almog‐Bar, Michal; Livnat, Inbar

doi:10.1080/13537121.2019.1593655

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“…(2021) contended that such cases could be a matter of moral naivety. However, in this study, it seems that it is not necessarily naivety as much as hope and goodwill – the values that social care NPO workers are equipped with and rely on are the same values that explain why they keep working in complex, nonrewarding and inadequate conditions (Almog-Bar and Livnat, 2019). It also might not be naivety as much as the lack of other employment possibilities.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…The characteristics of women’s employment in NPOs, as presented in the literature, are that the work is invisible and taken for granted (Kosny and MacEachen, 2010); it is part-time, temporary and sometimes in shifts (Charlesworth et al. , 2015); it requires a significant investment of hours, much more than is defined in the official role definition, and uncompensated overtime (Almog-Bar and Livnat, 2019; Baines, 2004); and it is highly gendered (Charlesworth et al. , 2015).…”

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Gender employment contradictions in Israeli nonprofit organizations providing social care

Livnat,

Almog-Bar

2024

IJSSP

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PurposeThis article asks how gender, ethnicity and other identities intersect and shape the employment experiences of social workers. During recent decades, governments have contracted social care to for-profit and nonprofit organizations (NPOs) globally as a part of the adaption of the neoliberal approach. Most employees in these organizations are women. However, there is a lack of knowledge about women working in social service NPOs and their unique working environments.Design/methodology/approachThis article explores the experiences of women employed as social workers in social care NPOs in Israel regarding intersectionality. 27 in-depth interviews were conducted with women social workers working in social service NPOs. Participants reflected diversity in ethnicity, religion and full-time and part-time jobs. Thematic analysis was used.FindingsThe findings shed light on: (1) the contradiction social workers experienced between the stated values of the social care NPO and those values’ conduct, (2) intersectional discrimination among social workers from vulnerable populations and (3) the lack of gender-aware policies.Social implicationsThe need to raise awareness of the social care sector and governments to those contradictions and to promote diversity through gender-aware policies and practices.Originality/valueThe article suggests a conceptualization describing gender employment contradictions in social care NPOs, discusses how the angle of intersectionality expands the understanding of the complexities and pressures exerted on social workers from minority groups and emphasizes the need for social care NPOs to acknowledge and deal with these contradictions.

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Gender employment contradictions in Israeli nonprofit organizations providing social care

Livnat,

Almog-Bar

2024

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“…Contracting out of social services has occurred since the 1980s [34][35][36] and has been seen correspondingly in various Western countries [37,38]. Research has shown that contracting out of social services has alarming outcomes for the service users and those employed in NPOs [31,[39][40][41].…”

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“…Working conditions in Israeli NPOs are problematic, to say the least, as demonstrated by the low salaries, low social benefits, and the presence of many part-time positions [40,42,43]. The employee retention rate in Israeli NPOs is two years [42].…”

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“…Women's employment in NPOs tends to be part-time, temporary, and sometimes in shifts [44]. Moreover, working in NPOs requires investing more time than officially defined, and overtime is usually not rewarded [40,64]. Charlesworth et al [44] claimed that the care work in NPOs is related to the social expectation from women to provide unlimited and flexible care, regardless of their low wages and poor working conditions.…”

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Who Provides Resilience to the Community Resilience Providers?

Livnat

Almog‐Bar

2023

Societies

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The article focuses on employees of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) as an essential component of community resilience. Forty women, professionals in the helping professions, were interviewed about their work experiences as employees in social service NPOs. The interviews were conducted from 2019 to 2020, mostly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to understand those employees’ perceptions of work conditions, contracting-out of social services, professional community and relationships with co-workers, work–life balance, job satisfaction, and their future plans. The findings present loneliness at work and lacking of a sense of community and a strong sense of mission while facing a challenging environment and work conditions in NPOs. In the discussion, we offer a complementary understanding of solidarity and resilience in NPOs—and we elaborate on the lack of professional “communitiness” and its possible harmful effect on the resilience of wider communities in times of crisis—when resilience is mostly needed. The paper presents NPOs employees as critical actors in producing resilience, hence there exists a need to examine their work environment, job perceptions, and the latter’s contribution to their own resilience.

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Grounding responsibilization: Women in the care professions in contracted social services nonprofits

Livnat

Almog‐Bar

Soffer

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Women's Studies International Forum

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Between the sticky floor and the glass ceiling: employment of women as mid-level managers in Israeli non-profit organisations

Cited by 5 publications

References 22 publications

Gender employment contradictions in Israeli nonprofit organizations providing social care

Gender employment contradictions in Israeli nonprofit organizations providing social care

Who Provides Resilience to the Community Resilience Providers?

Grounding responsibilization: Women in the care professions in contracted social services nonprofits

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