Negotiating a ‘Borderland’: Nursing, Gender and Management

Marsh, Sheila; Macalpine, Marion

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“…Second, this study highlights that within nursing there is still a silence surrounding gender (Marsh & Macalpine 1998), which contributes to, and maintains, organizational structures and systems that disadvantage female nurses with caring commitments, thereby perpetuating gender inequalities in nursing careers. There has been recent strategic recognition of the need for flexible nursing career pathways, including horizontal career movement and the alternative pattern of part‐time and intermittent employment [National Health Service in Scotland (NHSS) 2001].…”

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A personal and historical investigation of the career trends of UK graduate nurses qualifying between 1970 and 1989

Ring

2002

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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Graduate nurses interviewed aspired to clinical posts, yet this was not what some in nursing expected of them during the 1970s and 1980s. The ability of these graduate nurses to fulfil personal career aspirations and develop their careers depended on many factors, not fully acknowledged in earlier studies. For example, organizational structures and systems often delayed fulfilment of career aspirations. Significantly, gender issues embedded within nursing adversely affected career progression of those interviewed, even in the 1990s. In particular, although nurses can combine work and family commitments, for those interviewed this was often at the expense of their career development.

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A personal and historical investigation of the career trends of UK graduate nurses qualifying between 1970 and 1989

Ring

2002

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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The Swampy Lowland: Using Hyperlinks to Navigate the Multiple Realities of Partnership

Macalpine¹,

Marsh²

2008

Organizing and Reorganizing

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‘On Being White: There's Nothing I Can Say’

Macalpine

Marsh

2005

Management Learning

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We aim to illuminate the construction of ‘whiteness’ in organizations, in order to contribute to changing power relations, and the enduring material inequalities they produce. We chart four cycles of inquiry, encompassing: gender and sexuality; ethnicity; surfacing issues of whiteness at work; and making sense of the whole, drawing on concepts of discourse, identity and hegemony. Our work with public sector managers and professionals (third cycle) highlights the taken-for-grantedness of whiteness: silence about ethnicity means that talk about ethnicity is ‘transgressive’; and silence about whiteness masks white power through normalizing whiteness. The discourse of neutrality is dominant. The article offers two helpful concepts: power/identity, to signify the intricate intersections of different identities with the complex manifestations of power within organizations; and silencing as a hegemonic discourse, policed through embarrassment, which perpetuates inequalities and conceals white power. The task of management educators is to draw attention to this discursive concealment, and model a process of surfacing both ethnicity and whiteness.

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Negotiating a ‘Borderland’: Nursing, Gender and Management

Cited by 3 publications

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A personal and historical investigation of the career trends of UK graduate nurses qualifying between 1970 and 1989

A personal and historical investigation of the career trends of UK graduate nurses qualifying between 1970 and 1989

The Swampy Lowland: Using Hyperlinks to Navigate the Multiple Realities of Partnership

‘On Being White: There's Nothing I Can Say’

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