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Britton's thoughts of the theory of gendered organizations are that "we should see organizations not as nuetral organisms, infected by the germs of workers gender identities but as sites in which these attritibutes are present in preexisting assumptions and constructed through ongoing practice". She thinks that there are unequal situations in these organizations. Britton also disscusses the unequal pay genders recieve for the same jobs they do. There is still a wage gap that is being experienced due to "internal stratification", where women hold some of the lowest jobs, in more of the lower paying fields or specializations. Men have more of the top paying positions in administrative posts.
Structure, agency and culture are all interlinked in ongoing processes of organization gendering becuase, "gendered cultural representations ane ideologies affect our job choice, employers' prefrences for particular kinds of workers, and the practices that take place within organizations themselves". For example, a man and a women apply for a nannying job, the women is more likely to get the position because of the assumed past expereiences and the gender roles she has assumed.
Britton also said, “organizations are gendered at the level of structure”, which means there is a fundamental difference where the organizations have two seperate categories/divisions for their workers, public and private realms. These realms are work and life outside of work. These realms become gendered because companies are ofering child care and maternity leave. Also, generally speaking, a womens work is never complete after she leaves work. Women are generally expected to tend to the family after she leaves work. Women encounter pressure, the example in the book talkas about a women who recieved a promotion, but got asked to be placed back in her origional positon because of the added responisbility which she could not handle it.