This research paper will critique Billing’s essay on the suitability of women in managerial jobs, which is considered a male norm. The critique will focus upon the data collection methods, literature review (secondary data collection), primary citations and the usage of theoretical concepts inherited from literature.
Billing conducts a qualitative research interviewing 20 Swedish and Danish female managers, mostly mothers, on their journey and experiences being women managers. As a basis of study, Billing conducts a literature review for related work on male norms and the congruency between jobs and bodies in particularly gender, debating both notions. She argues against the generalization of male norm in management and calls for a more complex approach to understanding the experience of women in management.
The author is …show more content…
She converses ideas such as “Identity work” and “identity regulation” and “ideal worker” (Acker, 2006). These works suggest that a large percentage of working women have greater domestic responsibilities. This point in fact supports the argument against male norm, rather disagreeing to it.
An interpretivist model, which is usually used in gender studies, is adopted because this inductive research is under the assumption that social reality is subjective. Qualitative research is usually the approach used in gender studies The methodology is explained in the research, but the philosophy behind choosing the interview samples was not.
Population
For conducting a qualitative research, targeted sampling is essential. Even though there is no ideal limit to sample size, adequacy should be in focus. There are different sample strategies that can be adopted to achieve the appropriateness and adequacy (Fossey, 2002). Women from different backgrounds with clear articulation of selection strategy would have been more
Billing conducts a qualitative research interviewing 20 Swedish and Danish female managers, mostly mothers, on their journey and experiences being women managers. As a basis of study, Billing conducts a literature review for related work on male norms and the congruency between jobs and bodies in particularly gender, debating both notions. She argues against the generalization of male norm in management and calls for a more complex approach to understanding the experience of women in management.
The author is …show more content…
She converses ideas such as “Identity work” and “identity regulation” and “ideal worker” (Acker, 2006). These works suggest that a large percentage of working women have greater domestic responsibilities. This point in fact supports the argument against male norm, rather disagreeing to it.
An interpretivist model, which is usually used in gender studies, is adopted because this inductive research is under the assumption that social reality is subjective. Qualitative research is usually the approach used in gender studies The methodology is explained in the research, but the philosophy behind choosing the interview samples was not.
Population
For conducting a qualitative research, targeted sampling is essential. Even though there is no ideal limit to sample size, adequacy should be in focus. There are different sample strategies that can be adopted to achieve the appropriateness and adequacy (Fossey, 2002). Women from different backgrounds with clear articulation of selection strategy would have been more