Decolonising gendered discourse and practices in HRD: towards transnational feminist solidarity and sustainability

Abstract

ABSTRACT Gender issues at work are increasingly ‘transnational’—extending and operating across national boundaries. Human resource development (HRD) scholarship and practices that essentialise marginalised women without considering the transnational oppression structure only reinforce gendered systems globally. This paper provides a framework for transnational feminist HRD (TFHRD) praxis to address transnational gender issues at work. The paper describes transnational feminism, introduces gender-related issues at work from a transnational feminist perspective, and identifies transnational gender discourse in HRD. Integrating transnational feminist studies and the Bierema-Callahan critical HRD model, this paper suggests TFHRD actions towards transnational feminist solidarity and sustainability through decolonising gendered discourse and practices in HRD.