In this new edition of Power, Politics, and Organizational Change by David Buchanan and Richard Badham, find the chapter It Is Different for Women. In this excerpt, they explore the degree of gender differences in positions of power and explain why women are under-represented in personal, organizational, and institutional practices.
Read MoreThis excerpt from Employee Engagement in Corporate Social Responsibility examines corporate social responsibility (CSR) through the lens of gender. See key ways in which gender overlaps with CSR at both the organizational and institutional level.
Read MoreDo women promote other women? This study in the Journal of Management investigates the question through the lens of gender role theory and managerial discretion. It explores the influence of women CEOs on gender representation in the top management team (TMT) and the role of managerial discretion at the individual, organizational, and task environment levels.
Read MoreThis business case is about the emotional tax—i.e., the feeling of having to protect against bias or unfair treatment and to be continually on guard, that employees faced at The Wing, a female-only coworking space. The Wing hired employees by pitching them feminism, but issues of pay and uncivil behavior in the workplace followed. The case explores emotional labor, discrimination, and the need for repositioning a business.
Read MoreThis research in the Journal of Marketing Research documents systematic gender performance differences (GPD) at a top business school using a unique administrative data set and survey of students. Read the full article to see their findings (which did show deviations), their discussion of and test for different reasons to explain this, and several important implications of these findings for business schools and for society.
Read MoreIn this Sage Video, Women & Leadership: The Case of HackNY, Diana Navarro, HackNY fellow, discusses her experience and challenges as a woman in a STEM field.
Read MoreThis excerpt from Gender and Leadership by Gary N. Powell includes practical steps toward achieving a workplace in which all employees can reach their leadership potential and ends with a call for research that focuses on practices that contribute to the shattering of the glass ceiling.
Read MoreThis chapter from Women and Leadership by Lisa DeFrank-Cole and Sherylle J. Tan includes definitions of inequality and discrimination, organizational barriers to leadership, how intersectionality applies to an individual, and a framework for promoting gender equity.
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