ABSTRACT
The understanding of gender varies considerably within organizational studies. One of the lines of argumentation has it that gender is one of the most profound relationships in societal life (Gherardi 1994). However, other scholars have warned us about the risks of seeing gender as ‘relevant and decisive everywhere’. The risk then is to reduce organizational issues solely to the question of women or men, and deny other possible standpoints and explanations (Alvesson and Billing 1997: 12). Indeed, in the course of my research on transformations in white-collar and clerical work organizations, gender seemed to be disappearing from my research material. As I interviewed clerical employees in several different workplaces and followed the transformations of their work over a long period of time, I have become more and more confused myself.
