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Conditioned openings and restraints: The meaning‐making of women professionals breaking into the male‐dominated sector of forestry

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  • Kristina Johansson
  • Elias Andersson
  • Maria Johansson
  • Gun Lidestav

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This article addresses how women forestry professionals articulate and interpret their experiences of being a woman and a professional in the male‐dominated context of forestry. The findings suggest that the entrance of women into forestry has created openings as well as restraints within the dominant discourses of forestry organizations. Gendered constructions of skills and a workplace culture described as built on homosocial values cause women to feel questioned and disadvantaged. At the same time, women are valued for their perceived capacity to perform relational‐based aspects of forestry work and as a means to reduce gender segregation. We conclude that while these openings are conditioned by discourses of gender differences and masculine privileges, they provide women, to some extent, with subjectivity and organizational space that, with time, may challenge the dominant and gendered discourses of forestry organizations.

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  • Kristina Johansson & Elias Andersson & Maria Johansson & Gun Lidestav, 2020. "Conditioned openings and restraints: The meaning‐making of women professionals breaking into the male‐dominated sector of forestry," Gender, Work and Organization, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 27(6), pages 927-943, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:gender:v:27:y:2020:i:6:p:927-943
    DOI: 10.1111/gwao.12403
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    1. Andersson, Elias & Lidestav, Gun, 2016. "Creating alternative spaces and articulating needs: Challenging gendered notions of forestry and forest ownership through women's networks," Forest Policy and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 67(C), pages 38-44.
    2. Maria Johansson & Lisa Ringblom, 2017. "The Business Case of Gender Equality in Swedish Forestry and Mining - Restricting or Enabling Organizational Change," Gender, Work and Organization, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 24(6), pages 628-642, November.
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