Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: Volume 31 Issue 1

Gender, management and leadership

Olivia Kyriakidou

– The purpose of this paper is to introduce the special issue which presents cutting-edge research in the field of gender, management, and leadership.

Deconstructing the manager: discourses of power and resistance in popular cinema

Alexia Panayiotou

This article aims to explore how mainstream popular cinema, usually a vehicle of effortless and accessible entertainment, produces or reproduces prevailing discursive constructs…

Negotiating gendered identities through the process of identity construction: Women managers in engineering

Olivia Kyriakidou

The purpose of this paper is to build and enrich theory around professional identity construction by investigating the development of professional identity under conditions of…

Lost opportunity: Is transformational leadership accurately recognized and rewarded in all managers?

Catherine Loughlin, Kara Arnold, Janet Bell Crawford

– This study aims to test how senior leaders recognize and reward the same leadership behavior in male and female managers.

Still a man ' s world?: The influence of gender and gender role type on income in two business school graduate cohorts over time

Thomas M. Schneidhofer, Michael Schiffinger, Wolfgang Mayrhofer

– The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effects of gender and gender role type on objective career success over time from a career practices perspective.

Irish universities: male-dominated? Limits and possibilities for change?

Pat O'Connor

This paper aims to provide a quantitative picture of the extent to which Irish universities are male-dominated at senior management, professoriate and governance levels; to locate…