International Women’s Day 2022: Solidarities at Work Live seminar
This seminar, by OUBS academic Vickie Williams, will explore the experiences of people working with endometriosis across several industries within the UK. Endometriosis is an unpredictable condition that can flare at any time, without notice of length or severity. People working with the condition must often learn to navigate the embodied precarity of endometriosis which can be challenging within traditional organisational structures and cultures where they are expected to minimise symptoms and conform to productive worker expectations. As such, people with endometriosis may be better suited to, and are often turning to, precarious work but this can create a double bind of its own and make them feel even less supported and protected.
Current knowledge on the experience of working with the condition has largely been neglected within organization studies, as have the support interventions for people to remain and thrive in the work they have planned and often trained endlessly for. Protective and supportive workplace policy is therefore needed in solidarity with people who are working with endometriosis, as well as other menstrual health conditions that are also largely dismissed within the workplace. Chaired by Amna Sarwar.
