'Mobilizing masculinities': Women's experiences of men at work

To understand gender relations in organizations, I use feminist standpoint theory and critical scholarship on men and masculinities to guide an analys is of accounts from six women about their experiences with/interpretations of men at work. Restricting these accounts to those in which women perceive d men as not intending harm to themselves or other women, I conclude that m en routinely act in concert to 'mobilize masculinities' at work, that men r outinely conflate masculinities and work dynamics, that often men are only liminally aware of mobilizing masculinities,, and that women experience mas culinities mobilization, especially when conflated with work, as harmful. T he discussion notes how the gender institution makes men's masculinities mo bilizing behavior possible, and shapes women's interpretations and experien ces of these behaviors. To subvert gender practices that harm people, I cal l for more research on how these practices are mobilized and conflated with work relations.