Geraldine Healy
Biographic Data
| ID | 246341 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geraldine Healy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geraldine |
| FAMILY NAME | Healy |
| SIGNATURE | HEALY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6588-5677 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 131 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Visible and invisible borders in time and space: History, biography and work borders in a research career
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how biography influences professional and academic development. It aims to show how in different ways our experiences reflect the structures of society and that histories repeat themselves with different protagonists and different preys. It uses the author’s own biography to argue that in the author’s case, early influences of Irish migration shaped some of the decisions she made and her commitment …
In the steps of Joan Acker: A journey in researching inequality regimes and intersectional inequalities
Inspired by two of Acker's interconnected concepts, inequality regimes and intersectionality, the authors revisit their intersectional research. By exploring their various studies on inequality regimes and intersectionality, the authors propose some novel insights that have emerged from an aggregate appraisal of some 17 empirically researched papers, all shaped by Joan Acker's sociology. While Acker's work on gender and organizations has provided…
Stratégies en faveur de la démocratie de genre dans les syndicats: Points de vue de responsables syndicales au Royaume-Uni et aux États-Unis
Cet article se propose d'exposer ce qui rapproche et sépare les responsables syndicales au Royaume-Uni et aux États-Unis face aux stratégies d'égalité des sexes mises en œuvre dans leurs syndicats pour faire avancer la démocratie de genre. Il s'appuie sur une enquête qualitative de deux ans, menée auprès de 134 représentantes syndicales des deux pays, sur de l'observation participative et sur l'analyse secondaire de données quantitatives. Entrepr…
Gender, Migration and Place of Qualification of Doctors in the UK: Perceptions of Inequality, Morale and Career Aspiration
This article draws on a large British Medical Association (BMA) survey which allows the comparison of doctors who qualified in the UK with International Medical Graduates (IMG) who qualified overseas. It does this with respect to inequality, morale and career aspiration. The paper argues that the human-capital protection of qualifications, profession and status is not sufficient to equal the experiences of migrant doctors with those of doctors wh…
Commitment and collective identity of long-term union participation: The case of women union leaders in the UK and USA
This article asks what sustains women union leaders' long-term union participation given an internal environment often hostile to women and an external context antagonistic to unions. This article considers the dynamics of long-term participation by drawing on social movement interrelated concepts of commitment and collective identity in the context of a comparative study of American and British women union leaders. The study explores the experie…
Lift as you rise’: Union women’s leadership talk
There is now an abundant and rich literature on gender and leadership in the corporate context, where concepts of masculine and feminine leadership are widely debated. This article provides a bridge between this literature and the women and unions literature, where women’s leadership is under-researched but where feminist strategies are widely discussed. The article uses the relatively novel lens of masculine, feminine and feminist leadership for…
Women's equality in the Scandinavian academy: A Distant Dream
While Scandinavian countries are deemed the most equal in the world, vertical sex segregation remains resilient in the Scandinavian academy. This article investigates women's equality in universities in three Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, countries where women's share of professorships is below the EU average. It explores the perception of Swedish, Danish and Norwegian women academics with respect to sex equality, hiring and…
Equality, Inequalities and Diversity: Contemporary Challenges and Strategies
Intersectional Sensibilities in Analysing Inequality Regimes in Public Sector Organizations
Using Acker's conceptual framework of inequality regimes, this article explores the experiences of Bangladeshi, Caribbean and Pakistani women working in three parts of the public sector: health, local government and higher education. Our concern is to investigate how inequality regimes are sustained, despite the existence in the public sector of more sophisticated policy development and stronger legal duties than in the private sector. Drawing on…
Competing rationalities in the diversity project of the UK judiciary: The politics of assessment centres
Assessment centres (ACs) are increasingly used to recruit highly qualified staff, yet there are few attempts to appraise their introduction from a diversity perspective. This article addresses this gap by exploring the introduction of ACs as a means of increasing the diversity of the judiciary in the UK. It analyses the underpinning politics guiding the processes and subjective experiences of ACs using Weber’s identification of types of rationali…
Obituary for Christine Ruth Cousins
Work-Life Balance and Family Friendly Policies - in Whose Interest
Structuring Commitments in Interrupted Careers: Career Breaks, Commitment and the Life Cycle in Teaching
Recent interest in work commitment has been within a unitary paradigm in both the sociological literature on women's commitment to work and in the human resource management literature on the need to generate commitment to work. The paper argues that the ‘commitment concept’ is a social construction with a multiplicity of meanings and that its usage is subjective, contradictory, temporal and frequently gendered. Debates focusing on the ‘masculine’…
Intersectional Sensibilities in Analysing Inequality Regimes in Public Sector Organizations
Using Acker's conceptual framework of inequality regimes, this article explores the experiences of Bangladeshi, Caribbean and Pakistani women working in three parts of the public sector: health, local government and higher education. Our concern is to investigate how inequality regimes are sustained, despite the existence in the public sector of more sophisticated policy development and stronger legal duties than in the private sector. Drawing on…
Women's equality in the Scandinavian academy: A Distant Dream
While Scandinavian countries are deemed the most equal in the world, vertical sex segregation remains resilient in the Scandinavian academy. This article investigates women's equality in universities in three Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, countries where women's share of professorships is below the EU average. It explores the perception of Swedish, Danish and Norwegian women academics with respect to sex equality, hiring and…
In the steps of Joan Acker: A journey in researching inequality regimes and intersectional inequalities
Inspired by two of Acker's interconnected concepts, inequality regimes and intersectionality, the authors revisit their intersectional research. By exploring their various studies on inequality regimes and intersectionality, the authors propose some novel insights that have emerged from an aggregate appraisal of some 17 empirically researched papers, all shaped by Joan Acker's sociology. While Acker's work on gender and organizations has provided…
Commitment and collective identity of long-term union participation: The case of women union leaders in the UK and USA
This article asks what sustains women union leaders' long-term union participation given an internal environment often hostile to women and an external context antagonistic to unions. This article considers the dynamics of long-term participation by drawing on social movement interrelated concepts of commitment and collective identity in the context of a comparative study of American and British women union leaders. The study explores the experie…
Structuring Commitments in Interrupted Careers: Career Breaks, Commitment and the Life Cycle in Teaching
Recent interest in work commitment has been within a unitary paradigm in both the sociological literature on women's commitment to work and in the human resource management literature on the need to generate commitment to work. The paper argues that the ‘commitment concept’ is a social construction with a multiplicity of meanings and that its usage is subjective, contradictory, temporal and frequently gendered. Debates focusing on the ‘masculine’…
Lift as you rise’: Union women’s leadership talk
There is now an abundant and rich literature on gender and leadership in the corporate context, where concepts of masculine and feminine leadership are widely debated. This article provides a bridge between this literature and the women and unions literature, where women’s leadership is under-researched but where feminist strategies are widely discussed. The article uses the relatively novel lens of masculine, feminine and feminist leadership for…
Work-Life Balance and Family Friendly Policies - in Whose Interest
Competing rationalities in the diversity project of the UK judiciary: The politics of assessment centres
Assessment centres (ACs) are increasingly used to recruit highly qualified staff, yet there are few attempts to appraise their introduction from a diversity perspective. This article addresses this gap by exploring the introduction of ACs as a means of increasing the diversity of the judiciary in the UK. It analyses the underpinning politics guiding the processes and subjective experiences of ACs using Weber’s identification of types of rationali…
Gender, Migration and Place of Qualification of Doctors in the UK: Perceptions of Inequality, Morale and Career Aspiration
This article draws on a large British Medical Association (BMA) survey which allows the comparison of doctors who qualified in the UK with International Medical Graduates (IMG) who qualified overseas. It does this with respect to inequality, morale and career aspiration. The paper argues that the human-capital protection of qualifications, profession and status is not sufficient to equal the experiences of migrant doctors with those of doctors wh…
Visible and invisible borders in time and space: History, biography and work borders in a research career
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how biography influences professional and academic development. It aims to show how in different ways our experiences reflect the structures of society and that histories repeat themselves with different protagonists and different preys. It uses the author’s own biography to argue that in the author’s case, early influences of Irish migration shaped some of the decisions she made and her commitment …
Stratégies en faveur de la démocratie de genre dans les syndicats: Points de vue de responsables syndicales au Royaume-Uni et aux États-Unis
Cet article se propose d'exposer ce qui rapproche et sépare les responsables syndicales au Royaume-Uni et aux États-Unis face aux stratégies d'égalité des sexes mises en œuvre dans leurs syndicats pour faire avancer la démocratie de genre. Il s'appuie sur une enquête qualitative de deux ans, menée auprès de 134 représentantes syndicales des deux pays, sur de l'observation participative et sur l'analyse secondaire de données quantitatives. Entrepr…
Structuring Commitments in Interrupted Careers: Career Breaks, Commitment and the Life Cycle in Teaching
Recent interest in work commitment has been within a unitary paradigm in both the sociological literature on women's commitment to work and in the human resource management literature on the need to generate commitment to work. The paper argues that the ‘commitment concept’ is a social construction with a multiplicity of meanings and that its usage is subjective, contradictory, temporal and frequently gendered. Debates focusing on the ‘masculine’…
Work-Life Balance and Family Friendly Policies - in Whose Interest
Obituary for Christine Ruth Cousins
Competing rationalities in the diversity project of the UK judiciary: The politics of assessment centres
Assessment centres (ACs) are increasingly used to recruit highly qualified staff, yet there are few attempts to appraise their introduction from a diversity perspective. This article addresses this gap by exploring the introduction of ACs as a means of increasing the diversity of the judiciary in the UK. It analyses the underpinning politics guiding the processes and subjective experiences of ACs using Weber’s identification of types of rationali…
Equality, Inequalities and Diversity: Contemporary Challenges and Strategies
Intersectional Sensibilities in Analysing Inequality Regimes in Public Sector Organizations
Using Acker's conceptual framework of inequality regimes, this article explores the experiences of Bangladeshi, Caribbean and Pakistani women working in three parts of the public sector: health, local government and higher education. Our concern is to investigate how inequality regimes are sustained, despite the existence in the public sector of more sophisticated policy development and stronger legal duties than in the private sector. Drawing on…
Lift as you rise’: Union women’s leadership talk
There is now an abundant and rich literature on gender and leadership in the corporate context, where concepts of masculine and feminine leadership are widely debated. This article provides a bridge between this literature and the women and unions literature, where women’s leadership is under-researched but where feminist strategies are widely discussed. The article uses the relatively novel lens of masculine, feminine and feminist leadership for…
Women's equality in the Scandinavian academy: A Distant Dream
While Scandinavian countries are deemed the most equal in the world, vertical sex segregation remains resilient in the Scandinavian academy. This article investigates women's equality in universities in three Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, countries where women's share of professorships is below the EU average. It explores the perception of Swedish, Danish and Norwegian women academics with respect to sex equality, hiring and…
Stratégies en faveur de la démocratie de genre dans les syndicats: Points de vue de responsables syndicales au Royaume-Uni et aux États-Unis
Cet article se propose d'exposer ce qui rapproche et sépare les responsables syndicales au Royaume-Uni et aux États-Unis face aux stratégies d'égalité des sexes mises en œuvre dans leurs syndicats pour faire avancer la démocratie de genre. Il s'appuie sur une enquête qualitative de deux ans, menée auprès de 134 représentantes syndicales des deux pays, sur de l'observation participative et sur l'analyse secondaire de données quantitatives. Entrepr…
Gender, Migration and Place of Qualification of Doctors in the UK: Perceptions of Inequality, Morale and Career Aspiration
This article draws on a large British Medical Association (BMA) survey which allows the comparison of doctors who qualified in the UK with International Medical Graduates (IMG) who qualified overseas. It does this with respect to inequality, morale and career aspiration. The paper argues that the human-capital protection of qualifications, profession and status is not sufficient to equal the experiences of migrant doctors with those of doctors wh…
Commitment and collective identity of long-term union participation: The case of women union leaders in the UK and USA
This article asks what sustains women union leaders' long-term union participation given an internal environment often hostile to women and an external context antagonistic to unions. This article considers the dynamics of long-term participation by drawing on social movement interrelated concepts of commitment and collective identity in the context of a comparative study of American and British women union leaders. The study explores the experie…
In the steps of Joan Acker: A journey in researching inequality regimes and intersectional inequalities
Inspired by two of Acker's interconnected concepts, inequality regimes and intersectionality, the authors revisit their intersectional research. By exploring their various studies on inequality regimes and intersectionality, the authors propose some novel insights that have emerged from an aggregate appraisal of some 17 empirically researched papers, all shaped by Joan Acker's sociology. While Acker's work on gender and organizations has provided…
Visible and invisible borders in time and space: History, biography and work borders in a research career
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how biography influences professional and academic development. It aims to show how in different ways our experiences reflect the structures of society and that histories repeat themselves with different protagonists and different preys. It uses the author’s own biography to argue that in the author’s case, early influences of Irish migration shaped some of the decisions she made and her commitment …
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Inequality (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Economics (4 works)