Women in Management Review: Volume 12 Issue 6

Maintaining the rage: from “glass and concrete ceilings” and metaphorical sex changes to psychological audits and renegotiating organizational scripts ‐ Part 2

Nada Korac‐Kakabadse, Alexander Kouzmin

From a cultural perspective, examines the “glass ceiling”, a putative invisible barrier but one that women experience as a very real impediment when vying for mobility. In the…

Culture’s consequences: organizational values, family‐friendliness and a level playing field

Ronald J. Burke

Examines the relationship of organizational values and measures of family‐friendliness and presence of a level playing field. Family‐friendliness refers to the presence of…

Women and careers in engineering: management changes in the work organization

Julia Evetts

Considers how organizational change and the restructuring of management in the organization are affecting the career opportunities of women professional engineers. Using a case…

A cross‐national cross‐gender study of managerial task preferences and evaluation of work characteristics

Nina Toren, Alison M. Konrad, Izumi Yoshioka, Roger Kashlak

Addresses the debate about gender‐based leadership/management styles by examining and comparing managerial task preferences and rating of work characteristics of women and men in…