M[othering] View on: “The Construction of Gender: Some Insights from Feminist Psychology”

The claim that gender is an authority relationship is an advance on the widely held view that psychologically at least gender is an attribute, part of someone′s character. However because this claim is counter intuitive the case for it must be carefully made. One way this may be accomplished is through a feminist reconstruction of organization theory. Through inspections of the historical origins of bureaucracy and the history of its interpretation we may find that it is not efficiency which pervades, marginalizing women facing other claims on their time. Instead it may be the requirements of gendered social power of which organizations are but one arena.