Gender Change, Organizational Change, and Gender Equality Strategies (original) (raw)

Change is at the heart of gender studies and the fi eld of gender, work, and organization is no exception to that. Since second-wave feminism provided the impetus to question women's and men's positions in society, an ever increasing fl ow of research has problematized the gendered division of labor and made a plea for gender equality. A quest for change is thus more or less central to the fi eld. Despite many initiatives aimed at changing organizations into gender-balanced or gender-equitable workplaces, change is slow at best. Only from a historical perspective, when one looks back a few decades, does it become clear that changes toward equality have indeed occurred, at various levels (welfare states, organizations, and the attitudes of people).