Crossing the Gender Chasm for Productive Field Engagement
The paper aims to demonstrate that while researcher’s background could be a factor in gaining access to research participants and to the organization, other elements like trustworthiness, reflexivity, and engaged participant listening help in overcoming gender barriers in interviewing the research...
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The Qualitative Report
2025
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| author | Reddy, Raghunandan |
| author_facet | Reddy, Raghunandan |
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| description | The paper aims to demonstrate that while researcher’s background could be a factor in gaining access to
research participants and to the organization, other elements like trustworthiness, reflexivity, and engaged
participant listening help in overcoming gender barriers in interviewing the research participants. This
paper is a reflexive account of field experience as a part of doctoral research aimed at establishing that
not only could gender barriers to access to research participants be overcome, but also that a gender-
outsider positionality offers insights into women’s workplace experiences that are shaped through the
discourses and practices of managerialism. The field experience highlighted the possibility of gaining and
sustaining access through identifying spaces of engagement where the interests of the researcher, the
organization, and the research participants intersect. The field experience pointed to the significance of
the researcher’s own past experience with managerialism, in taking a closer look regarding the lived
experiences of women employees with managerialism. Lastly, it is demonstrated that institutional
ethnographic fieldwork could also contribute to the organization’s endeavors for creating a safe, non-
discriminatory, and inclusive workspace for women employees. This paper establishes that gender
barriers to access to research participants could be overcome through a standpoint of trusted outsider
and use of institutional ethnography. |
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| language | English |
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| spelling | 123456789-12172026-02-18T06:15:08Z Crossing the Gender Chasm for Productive Field Engagement Reddy, Raghunandan access, embedded research, fieldwork, gatekeepers, gender barriers, institutional ethnography, organizations, organizational ethnography, participant listening, qualitative research, reflexivity The paper aims to demonstrate that while researcher’s background could be a factor in gaining access to research participants and to the organization, other elements like trustworthiness, reflexivity, and engaged participant listening help in overcoming gender barriers in interviewing the research participants. This paper is a reflexive account of field experience as a part of doctoral research aimed at establishing that not only could gender barriers to access to research participants be overcome, but also that a gender- outsider positionality offers insights into women’s workplace experiences that are shaped through the discourses and practices of managerialism. The field experience highlighted the possibility of gaining and sustaining access through identifying spaces of engagement where the interests of the researcher, the organization, and the research participants intersect. The field experience pointed to the significance of the researcher’s own past experience with managerialism, in taking a closer look regarding the lived experiences of women employees with managerialism. Lastly, it is demonstrated that institutional ethnographic fieldwork could also contribute to the organization’s endeavors for creating a safe, non- discriminatory, and inclusive workspace for women employees. This paper establishes that gender barriers to access to research participants could be overcome through a standpoint of trusted outsider and use of institutional ethnography. 2025-08-13T08:31:11Z 2025-08-13T08:31:11Z 2022 Article https://repository.auw.edu.bd/handle/123456789/1217 en application/pdf The Qualitative Report |
| spellingShingle | access, embedded research, fieldwork, gatekeepers, gender barriers, institutional ethnography, organizations, organizational ethnography, participant listening, qualitative research, reflexivity Reddy, Raghunandan Crossing the Gender Chasm for Productive Field Engagement |
| title | Crossing the Gender Chasm for Productive Field Engagement |
| title_full | Crossing the Gender Chasm for Productive Field Engagement |
| title_fullStr | Crossing the Gender Chasm for Productive Field Engagement |
| title_full_unstemmed | Crossing the Gender Chasm for Productive Field Engagement |
| title_short | Crossing the Gender Chasm for Productive Field Engagement |
| title_sort | crossing the gender chasm for productive field engagement |
| topic | access, embedded research, fieldwork, gatekeepers, gender barriers, institutional ethnography, organizations, organizational ethnography, participant listening, qualitative research, reflexivity |
| url | https://repository.auw.edu.bd/handle/123456789/1217 |
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