Accidental Feminism (eBook)

Gender Parity and Selective Mobility among India's Professional Elite

Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen (Autor)

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2021
288 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19999-3 (ISBN)

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Exploring the unintentional production of seemingly feminist outcomes In India, elite law firms offer a surprising oasis for women within a hostile, predominantly male industry. Less than 10 percent of the country's lawyers are female, but women in the most prestigious firms are significantly represented both at entry and partnership. Elite workspaces are notorious for being unfriendly to new actors, so what allows for aberration in certain workspaces?Drawing from observations and interviews with more than 130 elite professionals, Accidental Feminism examines how a range of underlying mechanisms-gendered socialization and essentialism, family structures and dynamics, and firm and regulatory histories-afford certain professionals egalitarian outcomes that are not available to their local and global peers. Juxtaposing findings on the legal profession with those on elite consulting firms, Swethaa Ballakrishnen reveals that parity arises not from a commitment to create feminist organizations, but from structural factors that incidentally come together to do gender differently. Simultaneously, their research offers notes of caution: while conditional convergence may create equality in ways that more targeted endeavors fail to achieve, "e;accidental"e; developments are hard to replicate, and are, in this case, buttressed by embedded inequalities. Ballakrishnen examines whether gender parity produced without institutional sanction should still be considered feminist.In offering new ways to think about equality movements and outcomes, Accidental Feminism forces readers to critically consider the work of intention in progress narratives.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.1.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 3 b/w illus. 8 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Adviser • Aggression • Alterity • Ambiguity • Appropriately Indian • Business School • Career • Case study • child care • Classroom • Competition • competitiveness • Consideration • Consultant • Consulting firm • counsel • credential • credentialing • Cultural Capital • David Trubek • david wilkins • Dead Ringers: How Outsourcing is Changing the Way Indians Understand Themselves • Deliberation • disadvantage • emerging economies • Employment • Engineering • essentialism • ethnography • Exclusion • Explanation • Extended family • Family Support • femininity • Feminism • Feminism (international relations) • Feminist Movement • Finding • Foreign Direct Investment • Free Trade • Gender • Gender equality • Gender Inequality • gender neutrality • Gender Role • Gender Trials • Gisela Shaw • Globalization • global legal profession • Governance • grandparent • Hostile Work Environment • Household • ideal type • Ideology • Incentive • Institution • International business • Internship • Jennifer Pierce • Law and society • law firm • Law School • lawyer • Lawyers • Legal Education • Legal Practice • legal profession • Level of Analysis • Liberalization • Management Consulting • meaning-making • Mentorship • Mergers and acquisitions • Meritocracy • middle class • Modernity • My Father • narrative • Negotiation • Neoliberalism • neoliberal mobility • organization • Organizational Culture • Organizational Structure • Outsourcing • Partnership • Politics • Profession • Professional association • professional elites • Professional services • professional women • Ratna Kapur • Requirement • Respondent • salary • Scholarship • Sexism • Shamnad Basheer • Shehzad Nadeem • Smitha Radhakrishnan • Social capital • Socialization • Social Movement • Social reproduction • sociolegal studies • Sociology • Sociology of Law • spouse • Thatha • The Indian Legal Profession in the Age of Globalization • The Other Hand • Transactional law • transnational work • Ulrike Schultz • Unemployment • Vikramaditya Khanna • Women in the World's Legal Professions • Workforce • workplace • Writing • Writing Process
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19999-X / 069119999X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19999-3 / 9780691199993