What You See Is What You Get: Popular Culture, Gender and Workplace Diversity

Title
What You See Is What You Get: Popular Culture, Gender and Workplace Diversity
Publication Date
2003
Author(s)
Sheridan, Alison Jane
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9342-4931
Email: asherida@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:asherida
O'Sullivan, Jane
Editor
Editor(s): Davidson, M. and Fielden, S
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Place of publication
Chichester, United Kingdom
Edition
1
Series
Wiley Handbooks in the Psychology of Management in Organizations
DOI
10.1002/0470013354.ch18
UNE publication id
une:2105
Abstract
In this chapter, the role popular culture can play in limiting the realization of diversity within organizations is explored. Drawing on mainstream Hollywood cinema, we examine representations of gender and work in popular cultural texts that contribute to, and go some way towards explaining, the disparity between the spirit of diversity management and its manifestation. Masculinity continues to be privileged over femininity and shapes organizational practices and behaviours. In this chapter we argue that in order to enter and survive within many organizations, people who are seen to be too different from the privileged and notionally mainstream identity group must somehow camouflage their difference in order to 'pass' as being of the dominant group. As such, diversity is compromised rather than celebrated, and its benefits to organizations severely curtailed.
Link
Citation
Individual Diversity and Psychology in Organizations, p. 297-312
ISBN
0471499714
Start page
297
End page
312

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