015 - Thematic Session. Organizational Responsibility, Culpability and Gender Inequality

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

From high visibility sexual harassment and abuse scandals in higher education and the military, to ongoing gender discrimination in workplaces, to efforts aimed at negotiating a more reasonable and fair work-family balance, it is clear that social science accounts require much more attention to the ways in which organizational structures and processes often play a pivotal role in exacerbating or mitigating gender power differentials and inequalities. This session brings together four leading scholars who have undertaken important and cutting-edge theoretical and empirical work on gender and organizational dynamics with implications across a host of institutional domains. Building on their own work, they will discuss the ways in which organizations themselves are actors in the making or undoing of hierarchical gender relations.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Sessions

Session Organizer

• Vincent J. Roscigno, The Ohio State University

Presider

• Vincent J. Roscigno, The Ohio State University

Panelists

• Laura Beth Nielsen, American Bar Foundation and Northwestern University

• Robin J. Ely, Harvard University

• Reginald Anthony Byron, Southwestern University

• Alexandra Kalev, Tel Aviv University