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Stakeholders in the transnational aid sector are increasingly calling for more aid "localization": relying more on local workers to implement aid projects in their respective home countries. This paper asks: What do aid organizations expect from their local employees, and how do these expectations shape local employees' work routines? Drawing on data collected from over seven months of fieldwork in Jordan, a major global aid hub, I find that organizations hold cultural assumptions about local workers that shape their recruitment and their expectations of their local employees. Furthermore, these assumptions and expectations are much more ambivalent and conflictual than existing scholarship suggests. Employers want locals who are "Westernized professionals": impartial, objective, transparent, and dispassionate workers. But they also expect local employees to act in "non-Western" ways, as "traditional locals" (reifying orientalist tropes related to corruption and Arab culture), to make aid projects work. Echoing Bhabha's argument that colonial subject stereotypes are strategically ambivalent—"almost the same, but not white"—I show how locals engage in specific types of extra work for their employers—what I call hybridized labor—to try to meet these conflicting expectations.

Underrepresentation of women in top administrative and policy-making positions relative to their representation in the labor force.

The status of women in elite positions in industry, government, & academia in the US relative to their status in the pool of potential elites is investigated, drawing on census data & government publications on women's share of higher education degrees & representation in 5 potential elite occupational pools. Findings reveal a large degree of consistency between women's proportional elite status & their proportional representation in these elite pools. The timing of movements in women's relative position in elite pools is then used to forecast when women could be expected to increase their attainment of elite positions in US institutions, concluding that it will not be until the early twenty-first century. 5 Tables, 1 Figure, 15 References. Adapted from the source document.