| 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 in organizational 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 110 EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT & ADMINISTRATION 30(1) 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. |