Gender regimes

According to the seminal paper of Cornell, gender regimes are defined as overall patterns of gender relations within an organizaation. This continuing pattern provides the context for particular events, relationships and individual practices. A local gender regime may reproduce, but in specific ways may also depart from, the wider gender order (i.e. the whole societal pattern of gender relations). A gender regime involves all the dimensions of gender relationships. According to Connel (2002), four dimensions should be distinguished:

1) Gender division of labor: the way in which production and consumption are arranged along gender lines, including the gendering of occupations and the division between paid work and domestic labor.

2)