Women in Management Review: Volume 15 Issue 5/6

Women within diversity: risks and possibilities

In Australia, interest in women in organisations has been overtaken by a focus on “managing diversity”. The first part of this paper describes this trend and the accompanying…

Women mayors say what it takes to lead: setting theory against lived experience

Leadership theorists have attempted over the years to encapsulate the mystique, the magic ingredient of what makes leadership successful into a formula or model. The most…

Women CEOs in New Zealand: where are you?

As in many other countries, women are poorly represented at the highest levels of New Zealand organisations. This article discusses salient factors that emerged from a study of…

The gender factor in management: how significant others perceive effectiveness

Robert Quinn’s competing values framework identified eight managerial roles that managers must display if they are to be effective. The eight roles are innovator, broker…

Women’s business: the flexible alternative workstyle for women

Women’s participation in the small business sector is a growing phenomenon worldwide. While considerable research has been conducted into the reasons why women enter small…

Managing work and family in small “copreneurial” business: an Australian study

This paper reports on a recent Australian study of 20 “copreneurial” marital partners who own and manage a small business together. For “copreneurs”, the disadvantages of living…

Stereotypes and symbolic annihilation: press constructions of women at the top

Press constructions of the appointment of a female to New Zealand’s top corporate position are examined against the theory that women are “symbolically annihilated” by the news…

Acknowledging the female archetype: women managers’ narratives of gender

Women in management are marginalised by the continuing pervasiveness of heroic masculinism, the traditional and hierarchical form of management, which depicts executives as…

Disappearing Acts: Gender, Power, and Relational Practice at Work

Transformations of Gender and Race: Family and Developmental Perspectives