The issue of gender in organizations has attracted much attention and debate over a number of years. The focus of examination is inequality of opportunity between the genders and the impact this has on organizations, individual men and women, and society as a whole. It is undoubtedly the case that progress has been made with women participating in organizational life in greater numbers and at more senior levels than has been historically the case, challenging
notions that senior and/or influential organizational and political roles remain a masculine domain. The Oxford Handbook of Gender in Organizations is a comprehensive analysis of thinking and research on
gender in organizations with original contributions from key international scholars in the field. The Handbook comprises four sections. The first looks at the theoretical roots and potential for theoretical development in respect of the topic of gender in organizations. The second section focuses on leadership and management and the gender issues arising in this field; contributors review the extensive literature and reflect on progress made as well as commenting
on hurdles yet to be overcome. The third section considers the gendered nature of careers. Here the focus is on querying traditional approaches to career, surfacing embedded assumptions within traditional
approaches, and assessing potential for alternative patterns to evolve, taking into account the nature of women's lives and the changing nature of organizations. In its final section the Handbook examines masculinity in organizations to assess the diversity of masculinities evident within organizations and the challenges posed to those outside the norm.In bringing together a broad range of research and thinking on gender in organizations across a number of
disciplines, sub-disciplines, and conceptual perspectives, the Handbook provides a comprehensive view of both contemporary thinking and future research directions.
The issue of gender in organizations has attracted much attention and debate over a number of years. The focus of examination is inequality of opportunity between the genders and the impact this has on organizations, individual men and women, and society as a whole. It is undoubtedly the case that progress has been made with women participating in organizational life in greater numbers and at more senior levels than has been historically the case, challenging
notions that senior and/or influential organizational and political roles remain a masculine domain. The Oxford Handbook of Gender in Organizations is a comprehensive analysis of thinking and research on
gender in organizations with original contributions from key international scholars in the field. The Handbook comprises four sections. The first looks at the theoretical roots and potential for theoretical development in respect of the topic of gender in organizations. The second section focuses on leadership and management and the gender issues arising in this field; contributors review the extensive literature and reflect on progress made as well as commenting
on hurdles yet to be overcome. The third section considers the gendered nature of careers. Here the focus is on querying traditional approaches to career, surfacing embedded assumptions within traditional
approaches, and assessing potential for alternative patterns to evolve, taking into account the nature of women's lives and the changing nature of organizations. In its final section the Handbook examines masculinity in organizations to assess the diversity of masculinities evident within organizations and the challenges posed to those outside the norm.In bringing together a broad range of research and thinking on gender in organizations across a number of
disciplines, sub-disciplines, and conceptual perspectives, the Handbook provides a comprehensive view of both contemporary thinking and future research directions.
Part I. Theorizing Gender and Organizations
1: Marta Calas, Linda Smircich, Evangelina Holvino: Theorizing
Gender-and-Organization: Changing Times, Changing Theories
2: Albert Mills, Jean Helms-Mills, Marianne Paludi: Disturbing
Thoughts and Gendered Practices: A Discursive View of Feminist
Organizational Analysis
3: Silvia Gherardi: Organizations as Symbolic Gendered Order
4: Heather Höpfl: Was will der Mann?
5: Patricia Lewis: Feminism, Post-Feminism and Emerging
Femininities in Entrepreneurship
6: Karen Lee Ashcraft, Kate Lockwood Harris: Meaning that Matters:
An Organization Communication perspective on Gender, Discourse, and
Materiality.
Part II. Gender in Leadership and Management
7: Alice Eagly, Leire Gartzia, Linda L. Carli: Female Advantage
Revisited
8: Isabel Metz, Carol Kulik: The Rocky Climb: Women's Advancement
in Management
9: Yvonne du Billing, Mats Alvesson: Leadership: A Matter of
Gender?
10: Sharon Mavin, Jannine Williams, Gina Grandy: Negative
Intra-gender Relations between Women: Friendship, Competition and
Female Misogyny
11: Gary Powell: Sex, Gender & Leadership: What do Four Decades of
Research Tell Us?
12: Savita Kumra: Gendered Constructions of Merit and Impression
Management within Professional Services Firms
Part III. Gender and Careers
13: Debra Major, Val Streets: Gender & Careers: Obstacles and
Opportunities
14: Susanne Bruckmuller, Michelle Ryan, Floor Rink, Alex Haslam:
The Glass Cliff: Examining Why Women Occupy Leadership in
Precarious Circumstances
15: Yvonne Benschop & Marieke van den Brink: Power and Resistance
in Gender Equality Strategies: Comparing Quotas and Small Wins
16: Sandra Fielden, Carianne Hunt: Sexual Harassment in the
Workplace
17: Ron Burke: Organizational Culture, Work Investments, and the
Careers of Men: Disadvantages to Women?
18: Barbara Bagilhole: Challenging Gender Boundaries: Pressures and
Constraints on Women in Non-Traditional Occupations
Part IV. Masculinities in Organizations
19: Jeff Hearn: Contextualizing Men, Masculinities, Leadership and
Management: Embodied/Virtual, Theory/Practice
20: Stephen Whitehead: Masculinities in Management: Hidden,
Invisible & Persistent
21: Nick Rumens: Masculinity and Sexuality at Work: Incorporating
Gay and Bisexual Men's Perspectives
22: Ruth Simpson: Doing Gender Differently: Men in Caring
Occupations
23: David Knights, Marie Tullberg: Masculinity in the Financial
Sector
24: Janne Tienari, Alexei Koveshnikov: Masculinity in
Multinationals
Dr Savita Kumra is a Senior Lecturer at Brunel Business School.
Savita completed her doctorate at Cranfield School of Management
where she is a Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Developing Women
Business Leaders. Savita is also International Research Fellow in
the Novak Druce Centre for Professional Services at the Said
Business School, University of Oxford. She has published in British
Journal of Management, Gender, Work and Organization, Journal of
Business
Ethics and Gender in Management: An International Journal. She has
recently published her first book, co-authored with Dr. Simonetta
Manfredi, Equality and Diversity Management: Theory and
Practice,
published by Oxford University Press. Ruth Simpson is a Professor
of Management at Brunel Business School, UK. She has published
widely in the area of gender and management, gender and emotions
and gender and careers. Recent books include Men in Caring
Occupations: Doing Gender Differently; Gendering Emotions in
Organizations; Revealing and Concealing Gender in Organizations;
Dirty Work: Concepts and Identities; and Emotions in
Transmigration. Ronald Burke is Professor
Emeritus of Organizational Studies, Schulich School of Business,
York University in Toronto. He is the editor or co-editor of 41
books and has published numerous articles and book chapters. The
founding editor of the Canadian
Journal of Administrative Studies, he has served on the editorial
boards of over 20 journals. His current research interests include
work and health, corporate reputation, human frailties in the
workplace, and women in management. He has served as Associate
dean-Research, head of the Doctoral Program, Research Committee and
Organizational Studies area at Schulich.
What this Handbook offers is a broad range of theoretical
approaches and future directions for the study of gender and
organizations, drawn from different disciplines.
*Tessa Wright, Work, Employment and Society*
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