Gender scholars have developed a significant body of scholarship on the reproduction of gender inequality in work organizations. However, the vast majority of that research has been conducted in non-profit organizations or in employer-owned businesses.
In collaboration with Dr. Christine Williams and Jessica Thomas at The University of Texas at Austin, this project examined how gender inequality is reproduced or reconfigured in worker-owned businesses. We published article reviewing the existing literature on gender in worker-owned businesses in Sociology Compass. I expanded on this research by drawing on original fieldwork to consider worker-owned businesses as gendered organizations. This article was published in a Special Section on Democracy 2.0, which was edited by Joyce Rothschild for The Sociological Quarterly.