Although women have made significant strides in various organizational spaces, there still exist persistent, taken-for-granted mechanisms that reproduce traditional forms of gender inequality. In one study focused on higher education, I conduct 95 hours of ethnography of college classrooms and examine gendered classroom participation patterns. I find that, on average, men students speak 1.6 times more than women students in classrooms. In another study focused on the workplace, I rely on a case study of an administrative unit at public university in the U.S. to understand the effects of flexible workplace policies. Findings suggest that even at a workplace with supportive resources, both men and women continued to overwork due to their reliance on 'personality' as their cultural frames.