1st Edition

Women, Organizations and Vulnerability Global Archetypes

Edited By Hugo Gaggiotti, Isis Arlene Díaz-Carrión Copyright 2025
244 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Why are women, despite being resilient, adaptable, and persistent, often constructed and perceived as weak and vulnerable? Women’s vulnerability is not a neutral concept but is organizationally defined and understood. Organizations are discursive spaces where women’s vulnerability is constructed and reproduced as a communicative act and event. We often represent vulnerability at individual or... Read more

Introduction

Part 1: Conceptualizing Organizational Practices of Making Women Vulnerable

1.  Scrutinizing the Archetypical Relation Between Vulnerability, Organizing and Women

Hugo Gaggiotti and Isis Arlene Díaz-Carrión

2. Women, Ageing & Wellbeing at Work: Exploring Vulnerabilities Across the Life Course

Clare Ellen Edge and Hilary Lowe

3.  “Before We Open Our Mouths, Society Has Labelled Us”: Double-Jeopardy and the Identity of Black, Female Trailblazers

Georgia Buchanan-Robinson, Carol Jarvis and Jenna Pandeli

4. From Vulnerabilities to Empowerment? Women's Voices, Action Research and the Creation of a Global Mentoring Platform

Ana Lopes, Susan Durbin and Stella Warren

5. Navigating Vulnerability and Resilience: Pregnant Women's Experiences during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Chloe Tarrabain, Jenna Pandeli and Mahwish Khan

6. Transforming Voices: Exploring Women, Vulnerability and Organizations through Experimental Audio-visual Ethnography

Miguel Gaggiotti

Part 2: Country Based Cases of Organizing, Vulnerability and Women

7. The Reality “Checked”. Between Empowerment and Vulnerability in Poland

Joanna Średnicka

8.  Is the Gender Violence Alert Mechanism (GVAm) Enough to Prevent Women's Vulnerability in México?

Rosío Córdova Plaza

9. Women's Economic Empowerment in the Maldives: Are We There Yet?

Aishath Nasheeda, Abdulla Nafiz and Ahsan Ahmed Jaleel

10. Gender Violence, Performance, and Quitting Intention in Mexican’s Borderlands. Analysis in the Agricultural and Maquiladora Industry

Virginia Guadalupe López Torres

11. The Gendered Nature of Vulnerability in Higher Education: the Case of Türkiye

Ela Burcu Uçel, Cansu Yıldırım, Selen Kars-Ünlüoğlu and Benan Kurt Yılmaz

12. Approaches to the Vulnerabilities of Women Academics Responsible for Research in a Mexican Public University

Elvia Espinosa Infante and Nancy Fabiola Martínez Cervantes

13. Motherhood and Executive Roles: Intersectional Vulnerability in Peruvian Companies

Karen Genna

14. “A Case of ‘Sort it Yourself’”. French Women's Vulnerable Journey to Solo Motherhood

Alexandra Desy and Diana Marre

15. Vulnerability and Autonomy: At-Home Insemination and the Reproductive Rights of Lesbian Women in Brazil

Anna Paula Uziel and Roberta Gomes Nunes

16. Women's Vulnerability Behind the Scenes of British Film and Television

Theresa Trimmel

17. Vulnerability in the Polish Streets: Gender and Archetypes in Street Performances

Marta Połeć

Coda: Negotiating Selves: Gender at Work

Barbara Czarniawska

Biography

Hugo Gaggiotti is a professor in the College of Business and Law at the University of the West of England, UK.

Isis Arlene Díaz-Carrión is a tenure professor in the Facultad de Turismo y Mercadotecnia at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Mexico.