TY  - JOUR
A1  - Baumgart, Lene
A1  - Boos, Pauline
A1  - Braunsmann, Katharina
T1  - A circulatory loop
T2  - Social inclusion
N2  - In the digitalization debate, gender biases in digital technologies play a significant role because of their potential for social exclusion and inequality. It is therefore remarkable that organizations as drivers of digitalization and as places for social integration have been widely overlooked so far. Simultaneously, gender biases and digitalization have structurally immanent connections to organizations. Therefore, a look at the reciprocal relationship between organizations, digitalization, and gender is needed. The article provides answers to the question of whether and how organizations (re)produce, reinforce, or diminish gender‐specific inequalities during their digital transformations. On the one hand, gender inequalities emerge when organizations use post‐bureaucratic concepts through digitalization. On the other hand, gender inequalities are reproduced when organizations either program or implement digital technologies and fail to establish control structures that prevent gender biases. This article shows that digitalization can act as a catalyst for inequality‐producing mechanisms, but also has the potential to mitigate inequalities. We argue that organizations must be considered when discussing the potential of exclusion through digitalization.
KW  - digitalization
KW  - gender bias
KW  - gender inequalities
KW  - organizations
Y1  - 2023
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/63932
SN  - 2183-2803
VL  - 11
IS  - 4
SP  - 160
EP  - 171
PB  - Cogitatio Press
CY  - Lisbon
ER  -