This study explores employment equity policy as a text of transformation that provides a discursive site for mapping asymmetries of meaning that men and women bring to working together inorganizational settings. Three modes for understanding social phenomena, outlined in Gadamer’s Truth and Method(1997), form a conceptual framework for understanding the lived experience of equity workers attempting to transform the gendered discursive space of their educational organizations in Ontario, Canada, during a period of political restructuring. Their experience offers the opportunity to draw connections between ‘ideologies, everyday practices, and official policies’ in educational organizations at the micro and macro-political level.
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