S12. Professions and professionalism from a gendered perspective

Abstract

The session aims to unravel the relationship between gender and professions. We invite scholars to submit papers that highlight the gender barriers and boundaries within professions and professionalism. 

The session seeks to critically discuss the assumption that "profession" is not a generic concept but rather a gendered project existing within masculine/feminine relations. It aims to explore the gendered divisions manifested through exclusion, inclusion, demarcation, segregation, and closure, in the public sphere, within organizations and from a subjectives perspective.

We encourage submissions rooted in various scientific debates, including, for example, relational theory, neo-institutionalism, labor process theory, feminist studies, and research on inequalities and stratification. By discussig these perspectives, we aim to foster a deeper understanding of how gender shapes and is shaped by professional domains.

Organizers

Andrea Bellini, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, andrea.bellini@uniroma1.it.

Marcella Corsi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, marcella.corsi@uniroma1.it.

Silvia Lucciarini, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, silvia.lucciarini@uniroma1.it.

Brief bios

Andrea Bellini is a Senior Lecturer in Economic Sociology at the Department of Social Sciences and Economics (DiSSE), Sapienza University of Rome. His research interests focus on the sociology of professions, industrial relations, and, generally, economic and social regulation issues.

Marcella Corsi obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Manchester (UK), worked as a researcher at the WZB in Berlin and the National Institute for the Study of Economic Cycles (ISCO), and as an associate professor at LUISS G. Carli. In her research activities, she has focused on business cycle analysis in the real economy (labor market, consumption and investment, etc.), technological progress, innovations in the public sector, and, more recently, on topics related to the evaluation of economic research and gender economics.

Silvia Lucciarini (co)directed the “Mediterrapolis” Laboratory, funded by CNRS in collaboration with Sapienza University of Rome and Aix Marseille University from 2017 to 2021, where she explored socio-economic inequalities in urban contexts in southern Europe. She has been Professeur Inviteé at the University of Lyon, teaching comparative labour policies. She is a visiting scholar at the University of Nottingham’s Global Public Procurement Lab, where she has been comparing procurement strategies and the (re)production of inequalities between direct and indirect employment. She is coordinating an EU-CIVIS project on co-production strategies.