Mentoring as Affective Governmentality: Shame, (Un)happiness, and the (Re)production of Masculine Leadership

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Abstract

This article contributes to current discussions on the effectiveness of mentoring as a gender equality tool, but also focuses on the emotions and bodily (dis)comforts mentoring produces in addition to linguistic discourses, thus offering a novel take on how the tool operates. Drawing on a case study of a Danish mentoring program aimed at establishing the organizational space of leadership as more gender equal, the article demonstrates how, in producing shame and (un)happiness, mentoring (re)produces leadership as an organizational space dominated by masculine norms and work practices. The findings of the article support literature arguing that mentoring is an ineffective gender equality tool. However, the article does not entirely discard mentoring for this purpose, instead suggesting that scholars and practitioners look to literature on queered forms of mentoring for inspiration on how to use mentoring as a tool that carries the potential of truly promoting gender equality.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftGender, Work and Organization
Vol/bind28
Nummer4
Sider (fra-til)1304
Antal sider1.322
ISSN0968-6673
StatusUdgivet - jul. 2021

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