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Title page for ETD etd-10172009-115459
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Doctoral Thesis
Author Pauw, Annalie
Email [email protected]
URN etd-10172009-115459
DocumentTitle
A qualitative exploration of gendered discourses of South African womenin middle management
Degree PhD
Department
Psychology
Supervisor
Advisor Name Title
Prof T M Bakker Supervisor
Keywords the discursive construction of gender in organisat gender equity in organisations organisational discourse women in management gender discourse analysis discourse feminism social constructionism contradiction gender and identity
Date 2009-09-01
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Abstract This study is a qualitative exploration of the gendered discourses of South Africanwomen in middle management. It explores the locations and perspectives from whichmiddle management women speak, the institutions and traditions that inform their
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discourses and the challenges to dominant discourses on gender present in their talk. Itis conducted from a social constructionist framework.
The broader South African context is fraught with a contradiction between policy andpractice. South Africa’s progressive constitution does not erode women’s tenuous and
vulnerable position as is seen in the high incidence of violence against women, sexualharassment and women’s specific vulnerability to and rates of HIV infection. Thiscontradiction is also evident in the labour market where South Africa echoes a globaltendency of the continuation of gender stratification in the workplace. This ischaracterised by a tendency towards gender traditional occupations, a continuing wagegap, discontinued career paths for women, gender stratification of task division at workand unequal work division on the home front. This results in continued genderstratification of management and executive management positions. Women make upapproximately 50% of the global, economically active population yet they have not beensuccessful in entering the management world with the same proportion.
Using social constructionism and a focus on discourse, this study examines thediscursive construction of the gender stratification of the workplace. It starts by exploringhow available literature on the topic constructs the problem as related to internal andindividual matters, societal and social factors or organisational and institutionalprocesses. It further explores the developments in the field of gender, discourse andorganisations.
Interview data from semi-structured interviews with women in middle management areanalysed using discourse analysis. Different and contradicting discourses emerge fromthis analysis illustrating different discourses and associated identity positions availableto women. The discourse analysis shows how different and contradicting discourses
support the status quo by structuring certain subject positions into desirable explicationsof femininity but also how these contradictions allow space for resistance. The studyargues that establishing a feminine identity remains vital to participants and that thisrequires ‘identity footwork’ within complex and contradictory discursive positions.
© 2009, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in theUniversity of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any formor by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.
Please cite as follows:
Pauw, A 2009, A qualitative exploration of gendered discourses of South African womenin middle management , PhD thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10172009-115459/ >
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