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MEN LEADERS AND MATTERS OF GENDER EQUALITY

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2024-03-25

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0000-0002-6923-7706

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Thesis

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Doctoral

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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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Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

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Psychology

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Psychology

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