Overview
- Looks at how gender works in the workplace in East Asia and identifies attitudes to gender in a heterosexist and heteronormative professional social culture
- Provides an inclusive investigation into women’s gendered working interactions and practices
- Considers the strategies women use to navigate the issue of gender in the workplace and achieve their own personal and career goals
Part of the book series: Gender, Sexualities and Culture in Asia (GSCA)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explores professional women’s experiences of gender in the Taiwanese workplace in the wake of the rapid transformation of the country's economy, identifying attitudes to gender in a heterosexist and heteronormative social culture. It contributes to understanding women’s relationships with their superiors and peers at work and the strategies that they have used to negotiate with these role partners to achieve their own personal and career goals. It notes that compared to women in other East Asian economies, women in Taiwan have a more consistent career trajectory and that the local women’s movement and activism has brought Taiwan a long way in improving women’s employment rights, but argues that it is too soon to claim that gender inequality has been banished from the workplace. Based on qualitative, in-depth interviews, the book explores the participants’ accounts, gendered and heteronormative practices at work, in two contexts: organisational management and everyday social encounters. It investigates gender inequality at work by focusing on women employees’ everyday experiences, and examines structural and institutional factors affecting gendered arrangements, as well as personal experiences in negotiating gender. A key read for students and scholars in gender and employment studies, this book will also be of interest to those working within the field of employment sociology and organisational culture.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Everyday Gender at Work in Taiwan
Authors: Ting-Fang Chin
Series Title: Gender, Sexualities and Culture in Asia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7365-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-7364-9Published: 20 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5623-0Published: 25 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-7365-6Published: 09 February 2018
Series ISSN: 2662-7884
Series E-ISSN: 2662-7892
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 222
Number of Illustrations: 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Women's Studies, Sociology of Work, Asian Culture