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Undoing men's privilege and advancing gender equality in public sector institutions
Discrimination against women in public sector organisations has been the focus of considerable research in recent years. While much of this literature acknowledges the structural basis of gender inequality, strategies for change are often focused on anti-discrimination policies, equal employment opportunities and diversity management. Discriminatory behaviour is often individualised in these interventions and the larger systems of dominance and subordination are ignored. The flipside of gender discrimination, we argue, is the privileging of men. The lack of critical interrogation of men's privilege allows men to reinforce their dominance. In this paper we offer an account of gender inequalities and injustices in public sector institutions in terms of privilege. The paper draws on critical scholarship on men and masculinities and an emergent scholarship on men's involvement in the gender relations of workplaces and organisations, to offer both a general account of privilege and an application of this framework to the arena of public sector institutions and workplaces in general.
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Policy and society: journal of public, foreign and global policyVolume
24Issue
4Pagination
119 - 138Publisher
University of Sydney, Faculty of Economics and Business, Government and International RelationsLocation
Sydney, N.S.W.Publisher DOI
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1449-4035Language
engNotes
Available online 18 November 2008.Publication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2005, University of SydneyUsage metrics
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