A Research Agenda for the Future of Inclusivity in Work
Will be published approx. on 28. March 2026
Book
Hardback
282 pages
978-1-0353-2892-5 (ISBN)
Description
Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.
This Research Agenda situates gender at the centre of critical debates about the future of work. Leading experts provide a thorough survey of contemporary research around employment, gender and inclusivity issues, proposing future directions for prospective work arrangements.
Chapters interrogate how emerging technological, environmental and demographic changes are reconfiguring employment in relation to labour, leadership and legitimacy. Through a diverse range of disciplinary perspectives, contributing authors address crucial topics such as the impact of AI, incels and misogyny, remote working, female entrepreneurs, LGBTQIA+ networks, migration status, and disabled women in the workplace. They explore gendered and intersectional inequalities through various facets of working life, calling for a more inclusive and fair future of work that challenges, rather than accommodates, dominant structures.
A Research Agenda for the Future of Inclusivity in Work is an essential resource for students and academics in gender studies, business and management, human resource management and sociology. It is also of interest to employers, administrators and policymakers involved in creating a more inclusive working environment.
This Research Agenda situates gender at the centre of critical debates about the future of work. Leading experts provide a thorough survey of contemporary research around employment, gender and inclusivity issues, proposing future directions for prospective work arrangements.
Chapters interrogate how emerging technological, environmental and demographic changes are reconfiguring employment in relation to labour, leadership and legitimacy. Through a diverse range of disciplinary perspectives, contributing authors address crucial topics such as the impact of AI, incels and misogyny, remote working, female entrepreneurs, LGBTQIA+ networks, migration status, and disabled women in the workplace. They explore gendered and intersectional inequalities through various facets of working life, calling for a more inclusive and fair future of work that challenges, rather than accommodates, dominant structures.
A Research Agenda for the Future of Inclusivity in Work is an essential resource for students and academics in gender studies, business and management, human resource management and sociology. It is also of interest to employers, administrators and policymakers involved in creating a more inclusive working environment.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cheltenham
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-0353-2892-5 (9781035328925)
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Persons
Edited by Adelina Broadbridge, Stirling Business School, University of Stirling, UK, Agneta Moulettes, formerly Lund University, Sweden and Andrie Michaelides, School of Economics and Management, Open University of Cyprus
Content
Contents
1 Introduction: navigating the future of inclusivity in work 1
Adelina Broadbridge, Andrie Michaelides and Agneta Moulettes
2 Flexible work arrangements 13
Huiping Xian and Aleksandra Thomson
3 The changing nature of jobs. The impact of technology and artificial intelligence 29
Emily Yarrow and Julie Davies
4 Gendered dimensions of silence in the future of work 45
Maranda Ridgway and Nadia K. Kougiannou
5 Remote working as a key feature of the future of work: (gendered) implications for career sustainability 61
Christiana Ierodiakonou, Maria Charalampous and Ines Martinez-Corts
6 Gender discrimination based on femininity in the workplace: gay men, effeminophobia and effeminacy 83
Nick Rumens
7 LGBTIQA+ networks, employee voice, silence, and the call for intersectional representation in the workplace 97
Anastasios Hadjisolomou, Pedro Mendonca, Ebru Calin and Elo L. K. Reiss
8 Surviving care: care work and migrant women of colour in the UK 117
Amna Sarwer, Vincenza Priola and Charles Barthold
9 The working lives of disabled women 133
Katherine J C Sang and James Richards
10 Middle manager mothers and fathers in academia: embracing and resisting traditional values in Kazakhstani higher education institutions 149
Indira Kjellstrand
11 Incels at work: misogyny as identity, labels and normative structures of work 165
Mustafa F. OEzbilgin, Cihat Erbil and Dilek Torunoglu Tinay
12 Is the future of the linkage between gender and leadership androgynous? 181
Gary N. Powell and D. Anthony Butterfield
13 Women's entrepreneurship: a wicked problem not wicked witches 195
Nicola Patterson and Sharon Mavin
14 The politics of doing gender equality, diversity and inclusion: multiple change agents and their dynamics 211
Marieke van den Brink and Lieselotte Blommaert
15 Persistent challenges and emerging directions in the future of work 229
Adelina Broadbridge, Andrie Michaelides and Agneta Moulettes
1 Introduction: navigating the future of inclusivity in work 1
Adelina Broadbridge, Andrie Michaelides and Agneta Moulettes
2 Flexible work arrangements 13
Huiping Xian and Aleksandra Thomson
3 The changing nature of jobs. The impact of technology and artificial intelligence 29
Emily Yarrow and Julie Davies
4 Gendered dimensions of silence in the future of work 45
Maranda Ridgway and Nadia K. Kougiannou
5 Remote working as a key feature of the future of work: (gendered) implications for career sustainability 61
Christiana Ierodiakonou, Maria Charalampous and Ines Martinez-Corts
6 Gender discrimination based on femininity in the workplace: gay men, effeminophobia and effeminacy 83
Nick Rumens
7 LGBTIQA+ networks, employee voice, silence, and the call for intersectional representation in the workplace 97
Anastasios Hadjisolomou, Pedro Mendonca, Ebru Calin and Elo L. K. Reiss
8 Surviving care: care work and migrant women of colour in the UK 117
Amna Sarwer, Vincenza Priola and Charles Barthold
9 The working lives of disabled women 133
Katherine J C Sang and James Richards
10 Middle manager mothers and fathers in academia: embracing and resisting traditional values in Kazakhstani higher education institutions 149
Indira Kjellstrand
11 Incels at work: misogyny as identity, labels and normative structures of work 165
Mustafa F. OEzbilgin, Cihat Erbil and Dilek Torunoglu Tinay
12 Is the future of the linkage between gender and leadership androgynous? 181
Gary N. Powell and D. Anthony Butterfield
13 Women's entrepreneurship: a wicked problem not wicked witches 195
Nicola Patterson and Sharon Mavin
14 The politics of doing gender equality, diversity and inclusion: multiple change agents and their dynamics 211
Marieke van den Brink and Lieselotte Blommaert
15 Persistent challenges and emerging directions in the future of work 229
Adelina Broadbridge, Andrie Michaelides and Agneta Moulettes