Gendering the Market

Temporality, Work, and Gender on a National Futures Exchange

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2361815
AutoresPeter Levin (Northwestern University, autor correspondente)
Ano2001
Volume28
Fascículo1
Páginas112-130
Data de publicação2001-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoWork and Occupations (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0730-8884 • E-ISSN: 1552-8464
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0730888401028001007
OpenAlexW2116338272
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas21
Referências citadas45

Drawing on ethnographic data collected on the trading floor of a large, Midwestern commodities exchange, I show how attention to variations in the pace of work within an overwhelmingly male-dominated workplace reveals different repertoires of gender. During periods of market activity, gender is constituted within a language of competence. Seemingly gender-neutral categories such as handling pressure, being aggressive, and being physical mask a gendered logic. By contrast, during downtime in the market, gender reemerges as a more overtly sexualized form of difference. Jokes and references to women's bodies make gender a more overtly salient characteristic of the trading floor. More careful attention to the meanings of gender draws attention to both overt and covert gendered logics in the construction of a gendered workplace

Aesthetics · Covert · Ethnography · Linguistics · Pace · Political science · Salient · Silence · Sociology · Emotional Labor in Professions · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Law