Stepping outside the patriarchy : the transformative potential of women-centric and women-only service spaces

Porteous, Holly and Hamilton, Kathy and Wilson, Juliette and Edwards, Sarah (2022) Stepping outside the patriarchy : the transformative potential of women-centric and women-only service spaces. In: Genmac conference, 2022-05-16 - 2022-05-17, Stockholm Business School.

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Abstract

This paper uses a case study of a popular woman-centric space to explore new avenues in transformative service research, looking at the potential for women-focused services to have transformative impact on the lives of those that use them. We address the question of what benefits users and people involved in running woman-centric spaces perceive are gained from organisations and/or environments focused on women’s experiences in a British context where awareness of gender equality is becoming more widespread in the post-#MeToo era, but where much progress still remains to be made in ensuring women are able to overcome structural inequalities.

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Porteous, Holly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9243-7709, Hamilton, Kathy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5342-6166, Wilson, Juliette ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4932-0473 and Edwards, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2319-5667;
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