What is it about?
When we heard of Joan’s death in June 2016, we were all saddened to lose such an important academic sociologist who was dedicated to challenging the social and gender inequalities of our society. There have been few figures in our field that have acquired such an iconic status, not least because she constantly challenged what is so often taken for granted and unquestioned. Not only was she active in the political and civil rights movements of the 1960s and in 1973 ‘founder and CEO of the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon’, she was also ‘a member of the Oregon State task force on comparable worth, through which she raised the pay of low-wage women’s jobs in the state system’ (Love, 2006: 4) and recognized as a feminist who changed America (ibid).
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Why is it important?
Because Joan Acker was such an iconic figure in the field of gender and work.
Perspectives
I was just honoured to have known her if only limitedly.
Professor David Knights
Lancaster University
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This page is a summary of: In remembrance of Professor Joan Acker: A legendary figure in the field of Gender, Work and Organization, Gender Work and Organization, December 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/gwao.12223.
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