Abstract
<p>Workplace gender inequality remains a pertinent issue in the Netherlands. Existing organizational responses have predominantly focused on top-down strategies such as awareness training and diversity policies, which may insufficiently engage with the everyday workplace dynamics through which gendered inequalities are reproduced. Collective, bottom-up organizing that challenges these dynamics has received substantially less attention. We draw on feminist relational theory, the Gender@Work (G@W) framework and feminist conceptualizations of power to specify the relational mechanisms through which collective feminist organizing carries a shift in consciousness into access to resources, informal norms and formal rules. Twelve in-depth interviews with participants in FemForce, a Dutch union-based women's network, provide the empirical basis, supplemented by document review and expert interviews.Where the G@W framework establishes that its quadrants interact, this study specifies how that interaction is carried relationally, showing this transmission to be collective rather than individual, and uneven across participants. It extends existing insights in four directions: consciousness-raising is relationally produced through affective conditions that must be actively co-produced; feminine authority transforms not through visibility alone but through the embodied mode in which it is practiced and the institutional location from which it is exercised; the union context actively politicizes experience rather than merely hosting it; and feminist organizing has a cumulative, diffusive logic through which transformation travels beyond its original space into everyday workplace and social life.</p>