Andreas Giazitzoglu, Northumbria University

Miruna Radu-Lefebvre, Audencia Business School

Jason Luger, Northumbria University

Callum Kimpton, Monash University

Kai Roland Green, Aarhus University

Garth Stahl, The University of Queensland

Masculinities studies has expanded significantly across disciplines and emerging contexts including entrepreneurship, healthcare, education, and politics. Recent scholarship increasingly adopts constructivist, decolonial, and intersectional approaches to understand how men enact masculine identities at work. This special issue invites contributions that deepen understanding of how gender shapes social arrangements and well-being in contemporary work and organisational contexts.

Gender, Work & Organization has become a leading venue for empirical masculinities scholarship. Recent contributions demonstrate how masculinities relate to inclusion and exclusion in workplaces, how they are shaped by organisational spaces and professional socialisation, and how individuals are marginalised when they fail to conform to masculine norms. The journal seeks further analysis exploring these complex relationships between gender, power, hierarchy, and organisational dynamics.

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Potential topics

• Changing imaginaries of bodies and body types in work and organisational settings (e.g., the role of muscularity, body-art and digital representations of the body)
• New and emergent forms of 'masculine capital' in work and organisations
• How historical circumstances have impacted contemporary masculinities in work and organisations
• The physical spaces of masculinity and how they impact work and organisations
• Global variegations and convergences in trends in both hegemonic and counter-hegemonic masculinities
• Queer(ying) masculinities in work and organisations
• Critical readings of images, discourses, politics and practices linked to masculinities in work and organisations
• How masculinities are negotiated and shaped during early professional socialisation and how these processes inform the reproduction of gendered work and organisational cultures
• What novel and innovative methodologies can be leveraged to advance the study of gendered power and practice in work and organisational settings?
• What can the analysis of contemporary workplaces (remote, virtual and transnational) reveal about modern masculinities?
• How are workplace and organisational masculinities re-shaped or reconstituted in response to emerging social and political pressures that threaten hegemonic gender orders?
• How can symbolic dimensions of masculine practice advance our understanding of recognition and legitimacy in specific organisational fields?
• How do portrayals of masculinities in media, culture and public discourse inform our understanding of gendered life and livelihoods?

Timeline

• January 10, 2027: Submission deadline

Roman Gibel, University of Zürich

Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger, Vienna University of Business and Economics

Anett Hermann, Vienna University of Business and Economics

Georgios Tsourvakas, National and Kapodistrian University Athens

Natasha Winkler-Titus, Stellenbosch Business School

This special issue examines how gender shapes professional sports organizations and the experiences of those within them. It draws on feminist and intersectional frameworks to understand how power dynamics, organizational structures, and institutional policies create gendered hierarchies that affect athletes, coaches, and administrators. The issue also considers how race, class, sexuality, and other identities compound gender-based inequalities in sports.

The special issue welcomes interdisciplinary research that connects gender and sports to broader questions in work, organization, and management. Submissions should employ diverse methodologies and advance both theoretical and empirical knowledge, exploring themes such as career trajectories, leadership, economic structures, media representation, policy effects, and the specific challenges faced by transgender and non-binary athletes seeking inclusion in sports spaces.

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Potential topics

• Gendered Labor and Career Trajectories in Professional Sports: In what ways are career paths, working conditions, and opportunities in professional sports shaped by gender, and how do these dynamics intersect with broader organizational and societal structures?
• Organizational Dynamics and Gender: How do sports organizations reproduce or challenge gender norms? What are the implications of gendered leadership, policies, and practices within sports institutions?
• Economic and Organizational Power Structures in Sports: How do economic and organizational power relations in professional sports reproduce or challenge gendered hierarchies, and what implications do they have for inclusion, leadership, and equity within sport institutions?
• Intersectionality in Sports: How do race, class, sexuality, disability, and other social categories intersect with gender to shape experiences and inequalities in sports?
• Gendered Experiences in Sports: How do gender identities influence participation, performance, and recognition in various sports? What are the lived experiences of athletes, coaches, and administrators across the gender spectrum?
• Trans and Non-Binary Inclusion: How are trans and non-binary athletes navigating sports spaces? What challenges and opportunities exist for inclusive practices?
• Media Representations and Gender: How are athletes and sports events gendered in media coverage? What impact do these representations have on public perceptions and gender norms?
• Policy and Governance: What are the effects of policies related to gender equity, inclusion, and diversity in sports at local, national, and international levels?
• International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives: How can international and interdisciplinary collaborations advance research on gender and sports, fostering more inclusive, diverse, and globally informed understandings of work and organization in sporting contexts?

Timeline

• May 1, 2026: Paper Preparatory Workshop (online)
• August 1, 2026: Open for Submissions
• February 1, 2027: Submission Deadline

Daniela Giménez-Jiménez, TU Dortmund

Magdalena Markowska, Umeå University

Patricia Gabaldón, IE University

Caren Scheepers, Gordon Institute of Business Science

This special issue examines how gendered practices are constructed and enacted within organizations, and what consequences they produce. While gender as social practice is theoretically accepted, understanding how these practices operate across different contexts remains limited. The issue addresses a critical gap: persistent structural inequalities continue to disadvantage women globally, yet equality initiatives sometimes produce unintended negative consequences such as reinforcing stereotypes.

The special issue welcomes diverse approaches examining both intended outcomes of gendered practices and unintended consequences. It seeks to understand how gendered practices at multiple levels are negotiated, resisted, and transformed across different industries and cultural contexts, particularly through feminist theories including intersectional and postcolonial perspectives.

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Potential topics

• Does the (mis)use of gendered practices in organizations and industries affect various occupations?
• How do women and men employees navigate gendered practices in women-dominated versus men-dominated industries? Are there differences across these industries?
• Which specific gendered practices do women and which ones do men (mis)use, and what consequences do these have for organizational culture?
• How are current discourses shaping gendered practices? Do these gendered practices influence organizational outcomes, outputs, or impacts?
• How does the production, reproduction, and construction of gender affect business outcomes? Are the effects the same or different within and outside organisations?
• How do gendered practices influence women's networks, particularly given unique challenges women and minorities face in creating personal networks in organizational contexts?
• What are the consequences of women's programs on their networks, and what are the outcomes of these programs for women and men, as well as for organizations?
• Who are the actors actively constructing, resisting and shaping gendered practices at the different levels? What conditions enable and which ones inhibit production, change, and use of gendered practices?
• How does the portrayal of women and men in business—through media representations and policies—affect leadership stereotypes?
• What roles do masculine and feminine voices play concerning gendered practices? Could individuals influence and confront gendered practices?
• How do women with intersectional identities or social experiences—such as LGBTQIA++ individuals or female migrants—create, build, or construct new gendered practices?
• In what ways do these practices influence organizations, industries, and markets?
• How are gendered practices shaped within women- and men-dominated industries?

Timeline

• January 31, 2027: Submission Deadline

Gender, Work & Organization seeks proposals for special issues to be published in 2026 and beyond. The journal is particularly interested in work that addresses urgent and underexplored questions at the intersection of gender, work, and organization, especially proposals that engage critically with feminist theory and bring diverse perspectives into conversation. Proposals from organizers of the GWO 2025 Conference are especially welcome, as are suggestions from emerging scholarly collaborations presenting innovative and boundary-pushing research aligned with the journal's mission.

The journal is seeking special issues that demonstrate strong editorial collaboration and clear strategies for ensuring inclusivity throughout the publication process, including in authorship, peer review, and the mentoring of early-career scholars. Proposals should include the issue title and theme, a clear rationale for the contribution to the field, a diverse editorial team with relevant experience, a realistic timeline, and a plan for outreach and promotion.

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Potential topics

• Gender, work, and organization
• Feminist theory, method, and praxis
• Intersectional and post/decolonial perspectives
• Underexplored questions in gender and organizational studies
• Diverse geographies and voices in organizational research
• Inclusivity in authorship, peer review, and mentoring of early career scholars

Timeline

• December 31, 2025: Deadline for Special Issue proposals (with proposed manuscript deadline in 2026)
• June 30, 2026: Deadline for Special Issue proposals (with proposed manuscript deadline in 2027)