UNIT C - Blog 14

The theory of gendered organization is saying that organizations such as jobs or other types of facilities are structured based off of certain rules that are circled around gender. For example in a work environment that includes lawyers the male lawyers may have more flexible schedules and their boss might be more lenient with them because their men but when it comes to the women they may receive longer work schedules are more grueling cases because they are women. Gendered organizations can also be when mainly one sex forms the organization as a whole such as a police department that contains ninety percent men and ten percent women. In this case it is a male dominated environment and these men probably control the workplace giving the women not much voice or opinion at work. Some jobs have rules and regulations that are formed around men or may have masculine entities about them which may make a woman feel out of place if she were to work in a job that had these rules. In the book At Work in the Iron Cage the author talks about guards in a prison and said "the model guard was to be both officer and gentleman; the job is framed in specifically masculine terms. Administrators expected that only such a man could command the respect of those in charge" (Britton, pg. 54). This statement alone shows that certain jobs have an essence about them that is strictly formed around a man. This job is obviously male dominated and very masculine especially when it is said that these people only feel men deserve the respect of the people in charge. When Britton says "organizations are gendered at the level of structure" (Britton, pg 7) she is basically saying that organizations have structure and depending on what kind of structure they have then certain gender stereotypes or rules will occur. For example the company Molly Maids deal with cleaning and housework therefore you'd expect only women to apply and work for this company so their gendering would revolve around women and rules that apply towards women. This company might be more lenient towards children since most women have kids and they might be flexible with a woman's schedule that revolves around their child's school but if a man were to be in this type of job they may not even think to be lenient with him because usually men aren't the ones taking care of children. Hopefully this makes sense.