Women in Management Review: Volume 17 Issue 3/4

Re‐presenting women executives: valorization and devalorization in US business press

Linda A. Krefting

Perceived compatibility between requirements of managerial work and attributes of women is believed important to the advancement and success of women, and research demonstrates…

Sex role stereotyping and requisites of successful top managers

Susan Vinnicombe, Val Singh

The issue of management style and women’s progression has been highlighted in the past, but women’s perceptions of successful management styles are important too, especially where…

“Sailing twixt Scylla and Charybdis”: negotiating multiple organisational masculinities

Maree V. Boyle

This qualitative study explores the intersection between organizational masculinity and emotionality within a pre‐hospital emergency services organization. The existence of…

Gendered heroes: male and female self‐representations of executive identity

Su Olsson

Official organisational myths and storytelling constitute a powerful, persuasive force in both the public representation and the internal shaping of executive identity. Leaders of…

Women managers and organizational power

Françoise Belle

The absence of women from top management was long attributed to the traditional “ball and chain” of family responsibilities. The fundamental reason for women’s slow progress in…

Balancing work and family with telework? Organizational issues and challenges for women and managers

Diane‐Gabrielle Tremblay

This article presents a research on telework and deals with the following questions: Who are the teleworkers (sex, age, main socio‐occupational categories)? What are the impacts…

New directions in managing women’s trade union careers: online learning

Gill Kirton, Anne‐marie Greene

This article is concerned with strategies for managing the careers of women who work in paid positions in the union movement. Recently there has been some debate about the…

Restructuring the “old bill”: policing identities and commitment

Robyn Thomas, Annette Davies

Presents a gendered analysis of the reconstitution of professional subjectivities, as part of the New Public Management (NPM) discourse in the UK police service. Draws on texts…

Gender and the Restructured University

Alison Jones