The Politics and Ethics of Resistance, Feminism and Gender Equality in Saudi Arabian Organizations

Greater numbers of women are entering workplaces in Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries. Structural features patriarchy changing societies workplaces, but women’s experiences gendered segregation, under-representation exclusion raise questions around the feminist politics ethics mobilized to respond them. Building on extending emerging research feminism, gender, resistance, East, we use data from an interview study with 58 Arabian explore their attitudes toward gender-segregated mixed workplaces. We develop a novel conceptualization how gender is experienced through patternings resistance conformity shaped by ethicopolitical, religiopolitical sociocultural webs meaning society that permeate actions workplace neither entirely individual private nor collective public, made up nuanced commitments resistances context-relevant identity issues. discuss implications our findings for working practices norms Islamic settings.