`It's About Time!'

Knights, David; Odih, Pamela

doi:10.1177/0961463x95004002003

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“…From another and related perspective, in being linked to the multiplicity of temporal forces and forms of disruption, the sexual specificity of the menopausal body breaks the linear contours of masculinist time that undergird organizational life (Knights and Odih, 1995). The menopausal body is not a body that ‘has been’, marked as ‘past it’ on a linear career trajectory; it is always in becoming, with an eye to the future, but with unpredictable and undefinable outcomes.…”

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Temporality and gendered agency: Menopausal subjectivities in women’s work

2018

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This article advances feminist organizational theorizing about embodiment and subjectivity by investigating menopause at work as a temporally constituted phenomenon. We ask how time matters in women’s embodied and subjective experiences of menopause at work. Theoretically, we draw on feminist writers McNay and Grosz to explore the relationship between gendered agency and time in a corpus of 48 qualitative interviews conducted with women employed at two Australian universities about their experiences of menopause. Our empirical analysis identifies three temporal modalities – episodic, helical and relational – that show how gendered organizational subjectivities are not simply temporally situated, but created in and through distinct temporal forces. We offer two contributions to feminist organizational theory: first, by illuminating the ontological role played by time in gendered agency; and second, by fleshing out the notion of a ‘body politics of surprise’ with implications for feminist studies of organizational embodiment, politics and ethics.

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“…heavier or unpredictable bleeding) and temporal rhythms (e.g. through sleep disturbance), menopausal bodies nonetheless hold the potential to resist, threaten and challenge normative modes of mastery, linearity and predictability associated with masculinist clock time (Knights and Odih, 1995).…”

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Temporality and gendered agency: Menopausal subjectivities in women’s work

2018

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“…While men experience time as linear, women experience “cyclical” time, which is arranged around the demands of caring responsibilities (Hantrais, 1993; Knights & Odih, 1995). Cyclical time is also viewed as “process” time, which recognizes that “time is enmeshed in social relations” (Davies, 1994, p. 280).…”

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Working from home during COVID‐19: What does this mean for the ideal worker norm?

Williamson,

Taylor,

Weeratunga

2023

Gender Work & Organization

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The ideal worker norm is associated with specific ways of working. The ideal worker is a man who works long hours, is constantly available, and highly productive. Emerging research suggests that the shock of COVID‐19, which forced millions of employees to work from home, may have been powerful enough to disrupt the ideal worker norm. We therefore ask: how did working from home during the pandemic impact the ideal worker norm? We apply Acker's ideal worker norm to determine whether different groups of women employees who worked from home during the pandemic worked in ways which aligned to the norm. We conduct this analysis through the lens of two modalities of time: being clock time and (feminine) process time. Our examination of how employees experienced time extends existing, yet limited, research focused on time use during the pandemic. We used a mixed‐method design to analyze survey data from almost 5000 Australian employees to show that significant proportions of women, women carers, and disabled women worked in a manner aligned more to the ideal worker norm, compared with pre‐COVID times. We therefore conclude that a multidimensional ideal worker is emerging and one which works to both clock time and process time. This is an important finding as we seek to better understand how employees can work in a hybrid environment and what this means for organizations and employees.

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Gendered Time

Fraser

2016

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies

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`It's About Time!'

Cited by 19 publications

References 36 publications

Temporality and gendered agency: Menopausal subjectivities in women’s work

Temporality and gendered agency: Menopausal subjectivities in women’s work

Working from home during COVID‐19: What does this mean for the ideal worker norm?

Gendered Time

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