Gender Equality Practices: An Integrative Conceptual Review Based on a Multi-Level Process Model

Although organizational gender theorists commonly attribute gender inequality to a complex system of interconnected processes, empirical research on practices that aim to reduce gender inequality often focuses on a single process within this system. As a result, research on gender equality practices is scattered across disparate theoretical traditions and levels of inquiry, and it remains unclear whether and how practices can reduce organizational gender inequality as a whole. To address these issues, we integrate theoretical and empirical literatures to evaluate how well gender equality practices have addressed the system that supports gender inequality in organizations. Specifically, we first develop a multi-level model that explicates the interlocked processes that contribute to and sustain gender inequality in organizations. We subsequently use this model to synthesize and reinterpret extant research on gender equality practices by mapping the practices onto the processes they can disrupt, review their effectiveness, identify processes that are important but have not been addressed, and propose ways of designing and studying practices to better address the gender inequality system. Through juxtaposing the problem (gender inequality) and the solutions (gender equality practices), we offer a research agenda that advances a multi-level view on gender equality practices, and provide novel insights for research and practice to better address organizational gender inequality.

Zoom link: https://eur-nl.zoom.us/j/96921282309?pwd=NWJjazFHQU8rUWtIVXpTUUs5aEtuZz09&from=addon

Meeting ID: 969 2128 2309

Password: 549027