MEN LEADERS AND MATTERS OF GENDER EQUALITY
Date
2024-03-25
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0000-0002-6923-7706
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Thesis
Degree Level
Doctoral
Abstract
This thesis examines how men leaders conceptualize gender equality, their own power and the
power to uproot gender inequalities, and feminism. An examination of women leader’s
conceptualizations of gender equality and feminism works to contextualize and validate my
analysis of the conceptualizations shared by men leaders, further demonstrating how patterns of
meaning-making either overlap or differ between men leaders and women leaders. This project
reports on interview data in which men leaders and women leaders based in Western Canada
made sense of matters of gender equality. I applied a social constructionist lens and a critical
ontological approach to this project, further drawing on theories of feminism and
intersectionality. I engage in a rigorous reflexive thematic analytic process over five studies to
demonstrate how sexist discourse and practice are normalized, enabled, and encouraged - and the
ways in which they may be resisted - within the workplace. I present ten recommendations for
organizational work toward gender equality that I created based on my analysis of men leaders’
patterns of meaning about gender equality, power, and feminism, and how these patterns relate to
women leaders’ patterns of meaning about gender equality, power, and feminism.
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Gender, Equality, Equity, Leadership, Men Leaders
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Degree
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Department
Psychology
Program
Psychology