UNDERSTANDING THE PERFORMANCE OF MASCULINITY IN FEMALE WORKPLACE TO CREATE GENDER EQUITY THROUGH FEMINIST ETHNOGRAPHY
Keywords:
Masculinity Performance in Female Workplace, Gender Equity, Feminist EthnographyAbstract
The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand the practice of masculinity in order to create gender equity within female workplaces. This qualitative research used feminist critical ethnography methodology to help researchers gain a better insight regarding this matter. The researchers conducted in-depth interviews with five women, age between 25 – 60 years old, who work in a perceived “matriarchal” workplace. These women included business women, a business owner, and a warden, who have displayed leadership skills in their field. The results from this study indicated that the society formed certain knowledge and beliefs about gender equity. This could be verified from a picture of women who shape themselves by a masculine performance at work to achieve “success”. By thinking, behaving, or being decisive like men, they, too, could create equality. Such a belief entrapped women in the myth of equity. Proudly handling their private and working lives at the same time, was actually through self - exploitation, until receiving commemorations and rewards from the public. The main argument in this study was that, when they broke the glass ceiling, it was only applied to physical workspace. Thai women perform masculine traits based on male standard. Business women followed male professionalism standard, which at the very end exploited themselves. This showed that Thai culture still value men over women and it is a basis of gender inequality. The society and women have been hegemonized by hegemonic masculinity, then no questions asked.
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