%0 Journal Article
%T When Gendered Logics Collide: Going Public and Restructuring in a High
%A Ethel L. Mickey
%J Gender & Society
%@ 1552-3977
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0891243219830944
%X Gender scholars argued that gendered organizations theory needs updating as organizational logic has shifted amid neoliberal workplace transformations. This qualitative case study of a high-tech firm reveals how features of the traditional work logic remain resilient. I analyze the gendered implications of a high-tech startup restructuring and going public, finding the flexible organization to bureaucratize, implementing specialized jobs and a hierarchy with standardized career ladders. Going public creates conflicting gendered logics that place women at a structural disadvantage, relegating them to low-status, narrow jobs while simultaneously demanding masculine ideal worker norms of visibility and self-promotion. Despite networking, women experience job insecurity and a glass ceiling, while men are assumed ideal workers and advance. By tracing one high-tech firm¡¯s restructuring from a startup to public company, I demonstrate how the collision of new and traditional workplace logics perpetuates gender inequalities
%K gendered organizations
%K restructuring
%K work logic
%K technology industry
%K ideal worker
%K gender
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0891243219830944