men, masculinities, and the modern career : a conference report
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Tijdschrift voor genderstudies
- Magazine Year
- 2019
- Magazine Number
- 4
- Creator
- Bland, Carice
- Thesaurus
- arbeid, mannelijkheid, loopbanen, wetenschappelijke beroepen, media, 21e eeuw, congressen
- Description
- The conference 'Making it like man : men, maculinities and the modern career', which took place in 2018 in Helsinki, illuminated the idea that groups of men are the ones that dictate the working environment by introducing new perspectives on the connection between men and careers. The conference was necessary because merely acknowledging the divide in work environments between men and women doesn't show the connection between masculinity and careers, and neither how masculinity manifests itself in a variety of ways and socio-economic structures. Both historical and critical approaches were adopted in order to examine the diverse array of masculinities in professional and personal environments, as well as how both men and women particpate in and reproduce these in modern working life. Presenters from four different continents and a variety of background experiences came together to discuss their own research on masculinity and what makes a man on subjects like the many men in the academic world or the way men interpret their own masculinity or the representation of masculinity in the media.