Social Class and Gender in Working Lives Across the Globe: An Intersectional Perspective

Abstract

Against the backdrop of enduring gender and class inequalities, this symposium explores the relationship between social class and gender in various facets of working lives in different national and professional settings from an intersectional perspective. While career, HRM and gender issues have long been in the focus of management scholars, related research on impacts of social class and the interplay of gender and class is still scarce. This symposium assembles different perspectives from Africa (Nigeria), Asia (India), Europe (UK), North America (USA), and South America (Brazil) to provide fine-grained insights into the complexity of gendered and classed life experiences and address related challenges at the individual, organizational, and societal level. Exploring intersectionality in an African context: Class and gender in Nigeria Presenter: Ifedapo Adeleye; Georgetown U. Presenter: Nkiru Nwokoroku; Georgetown U. Exploring positionality of intersecting structures in a UK study of personal internet use at work Presenter: Julie Monroe; Newcastle U. Business School Caste dynamics: Dirty workers' identity characteristics and their work and non-work lives Presenter: Divya Tyagi; Indian Institute of Management, Indore Presenter: Sushanta Kumar Mishra; Indian Institute of Management, Indore 'Nobody taught me this': How learning 'professional' expectations differs by race, gender, and class Presenter: Anna Kallschmidt; - Presenter: Asia Eaton; Florida International U. Higher education expansion and reproduction of gender, race and class inequalities in Brazil Presenter: Sidinei Rocha De Oliveira; UFRGS - Federal U. of Rio Grande do Sul - BRAZIL