What is "Doing Gender?"
Engaging in socially guided behaviors as evidentiary expressions of masculinity as femininity. These activities produce, reproduce, and legitimate acceptable versions of masculine and feminine expression.
Non-Corporate Restaurants.
Tend to have waitresses who independently manage their work load, and waitresses are more common than waiters. Employees tend to stay at these restaurants for a long time, making careers out of their work there.
Corporate Restaurants
Serveers tend to be more gender-diverse group and are more likely to work as a team. There tend to be stricter uniform standards, less individuality is allowed, and turnover is high.
Female workers in Family Restaurant vs Corporate Restaurants.
Family restaurant waitresses expressed gender to accomplish their work-related goals and to practice social conformity. Female servers in the corporate restaurant expressed gender against the wishes of the organization and as an act of resistance.
