An invisible race from exclusiveness to inclusiveness of queer employees at workplace

Title

An invisible race from exclusiveness to inclusiveness of queer employees at workplace

Creator

Rai R.; Lakshmypriya K.; Raghuvanshi R.

Description

Queer theory has been a significant part of the field of queer studies. Its presence can be found in women's studies, gay and lesbian studies and feminist theory, and postmodern and poststructuralist theories. Many types of research came around during the 1990s. One of the significant studies was in 1991. Teresa de Lauret coined the term "queer theory" to characterize a school of thought that rejected heterosexuality and binary gender constructions favoring a more open view of identity. Michel Foucault and Judith Butler's study is widely regarded as the founding text of this philosophy. This study adopts the lens of gender and sexuality to challenge people's cultural norms and ideals. There is hesitation among people regarding the acceptance of the third gender that exists in society. The queer theory suggests how the rest sees the queer community of the world. While studying the conditions of the queer community in India, it is imperative to undertake the recently legalized Section 377. The Indian Penal Code says that it is no more a crime to have sexual conduct between adults of the same gender as people have no control over their sexual orientation. The study discusses the practices and protocols of transgender inclusion at the workplace and how to look beyond the labels of the LGBT community. There are various issues when the company wants to employ transgender people at the workplace and accept the community. Qualitative research methods will be used in this research by reading several databases and conducting a systematic review. This chapter will also highlight how trans people confront significant job and career-related problems and barriers in the workplace and the concessions employers should make to ensure that trans people have a safe and discrimination-free workplace. This chapter observes how queer theory can be used as a conceptual framework to advance research in organizational research on trans people's several and many times conflicting needs. Ways could be explored to reach their goals around gender transgression and congruency, work, and career, by laying out some of the crucial concepts associated with the study of trans people in the workplace. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.

Source

Social Morphology, Human Welfare, and Sustainability, pp. 671-686.

Date

2022-01-01

Publisher

Springer International Publishing

Subject

Community; Discrimination; LGBT; Queer theory; Transgender; Workplace inclusion

Coverage

Rai R., School of Business and Management, Christ University, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India; Lakshmypriya K., School of Business and Management, Christ University, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India; Raghuvanshi R., Department of Commerce, Shyamlal College (eve.), University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISBN: 978-303096760-4

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Book chapter

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96760-4_27

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