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‘Are you married?’ Exploring Gender in a Global Workplace in India

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Work and Life in the Global Economy

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Global Software Organizations (GSOs) constitute work settings for IT professionals engaged in software development for customers across the globe. In India, the information technology (IT) revolution in India has created new career possibilities for urban, educated, middleclass professionals, particularly women. GSOs often position themselves as knowledge-based, meritocratic, and gender-neutral in their structure and culture. This chapter aims to understand how gender is expressed or played out in a GSO work setting within India. It describes the ways in which gendered relations emerge or are reproduced in a GSO and how these influence work relations and outcomes within the GSO.

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    Debra Howcroft (Professor of Technology and Organisations, a member of the ESRC-funded Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) (Professor of Technology and Organisations, a member of the ESRC-funded Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC)

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D’Mello, M. (2010). ‘Are you married?’ Exploring Gender in a Global Workplace in India. In: Howcroft, D., Richardson, H. (eds) Work and Life in the Global Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230277977_4

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