From "Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies: A Theory of Gendered Organizations" by Joan Acker
Acker discusses the "gendering" of women's work in organizations. This gendering is associated with patriarchal-based forms of inequality and oppression in the kind of work women do and its attendant rewards. The author views this gendering as, historically, a product of the gender-neutral rendering of stratification-based organizational dynamics.
-Discuss what the author means when saying that early work on gender by sociologists such as Kanter and Ferguson were limited because they worked on the assumption that organizations are gender-neutral phenomena.

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Acker discusses the "gendering" of women's work in organizations. This gendering is associated with patriarchal-based forms of inequality and oppression in the kind of work women do and its attendant rewards. The author views this gendering as, historically, a product of the gender-neutral rendering of stratification-based organizational dynamics.
-Discuss what the author means when saying that early work on gender by sociologists such as Kanter and Ferguson were limited because they worked on the assumption that organizations are gender-neutral phenomena.

From "Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies: a Theory of Gendered Organizations" by Joan