The Oxford Handbook of Gender in Organizations

The issue of gender in organizations has attracted much attention and debate over a number of years. The focus of examination is inequality of opportunity between the genders and the impact this has on organizations, individual men and women, and society as a whole. It is undoubtedly the case that progress has been made with women participating in organizational life in greater numbers and at more senior levels than has been historically the case, challenging notions that senior and/or influential organizational and political roles remain a masculine domain. The Oxford Handbook of Gender in Organizations is a comprehensive analysis of thinking and research on gender in organizations with original contributions from key international scholars in the field.

The Handbook comprises four sections. The first looks at the theoretical roots and potential for theoretical development in respect of the topic of gender in organizations. The second section focuses on leadership and management and the gender issues arising in this field; contributors review the extensive literature and reflect on progress made as well as commenting on hurdles yet to be overcome. The third section considers the gendered nature of careers. Here the focus is on querying traditional approaches to career, surfacing embedded assumptions within traditional approaches, and assessing potential for alternative patterns to evolve, taking into account the nature of women's lives and the changing nature of organizations. In its final section the Handbook examines masculinity in organizations to assess the diversity of masculinities evident within organizations and the challenges posed to those outside the norm.

In bringing together a broad range of research and thinking on gender in organizations across a number of disciplines, sub-disciplines, and conceptual perspectives, the Handbook provides a comprehensive view of both contemporary thinking and future research directions.

Savita Kumra, Senior Lecturer, Brunel Business School,Ruth Simpson, Professor of Management, Brunel University,Ronald J. Burke, Emeritus Professor of Organizational Studies, Schulich School of Business, York University

Dr Savita Kumra is a Senior Lecturer at Brunel Business School. Savita completed her doctorate at Cranfield School of Management where she is a Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Developing Women Business Leaders. Savita is also International Research Fellow in the Novak Druce Centre for Professional Services at the Said Business School, University of Oxford. She has published in British Journal of Management, Gender, Work and Organization, Journal of Business Ethics and Gender in Management: An International Journal. She has recently published her first book, co-authored with Dr. Simonetta Manfredi, Equality and Diversity Management: Theory and Practice, published by Oxford University Press.

Ruth Simpson is a Professor of Management at Brunel Business School, UK. She has published widely in the area of gender and management, gender and emotions and gender and careers. Recent books include Men in Caring Occupations: Doing Gender Differently; Gendering Emotions in Organizations; Revealing and Concealing Gender in Organizations; Dirty Work: Concepts and Identities; and Emotions in Transmigration.

Ronald Burke is Professor Emeritus of Organizational Studies, Schulich School of Business, York University in Toronto. He is the editor or co-editor of 41 books and has published numerous articles and book chapters. The founding editor of the Canadian Journal of Administrative Studies, he has served on the editorial boards of over 20 journals. His current research interests include work and health, corporate reputation, human frailties in the workplace, and women in management. He has served as Associate dean-Research, head of the Doctoral Program, Research Committee and Organizational Studies area at Schulich.

Part I. Theorizing Gender and Organizations
1: Linda Smircich, Marta Calas, Evangelina Holvino: Theorizing Gender and Organization: Changing Times, Changing Theories
2: Albert Mills, Jean Helms-Mills, Marianne Paludi: Disturbing Thoughts and Gendered Practices: A Discursive View of Feminist Organizational Analysis
3: Silvia Gherardi: Organizations as Symbolic Gendered Order
4: Heather Höpfl: Was will der Mann?
5: Patricia Lewis: Feminism, Post-Feminism and Emerging Femininities in Entrepreneurship
6: Karen Lee Ashcraft, Kate Lockwood Harris: Meaning that Matters: An Organization Communication perspective on Gender, Discourse, and Materiality.
Part II. Gender in Leadership and Management
7: Alice Eagly, Leire Gartzia, Linda L. Carli: Female Advantage Revisited
8: Isabel Metz, Carol Kulik: The Rocky Climb: Women's Advancement in Management
9: Yvonne du Billing, Mats Alvesson: Leadership: A Matter of Gender?
10: Sharon Mavin, Janine Williams, Gina Grandy: Negative Intra-gender Relations between Women: Friendship, Competition and Female Misogyny
11: Gary Powell: Sex, Gender & Leadership: What do Four Decades of Research Tell Us?
12: Savita Kumra: Gendered Constructions of Merit and Impression Management within Professional Services Firms
Part III. Gender and Careers
13: Debra Major, Val Streets: Gender & Careers: Obstacles and Opportunities
14: Susanne Bruckmuller, Michelle Ryan, Floor Rink, Alex Haslam: The Glass Cliff: Examining Why Women Occupy Leadership in Precarious Circumstances
15: Yvonne Benschop & Marieke van den Brink: Power and Resistance in Gender Equality Strategies: Comparing Quotas and Small Wins
16: Sandra Fielden, Carianne Hunt: Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
17: Ron Burke: Organizational Culture, Work Investments, and the Careers of Men: Disadvantages to Women?
18: Barbara Bagilhole: Challenging Gender Boundaries: Pressures and Constraints on Women in Non-Traditional Occupations
Part IV. Masculinities in Organizations
19: Jeff Hearn: Contextualizing Men, Masculinities, Leadership and Management: Embodied/Virtual, Theory/Practice
20: Stephen Whitehead: Masculinities in Management: Hidden, Invisible & Persistent
21: Nick Rumens: Masculinity and Sexuality at Work: Incorporating Gay and Bisexual Men's Perspectives
22: Ruth Simpson: Doing Gender Differently: Men in Caring Occupations
23: David Knights, Marie Tullberg: Masculinity in the Financial Sector
24: Janne Tienari, Alexei Koveshnikov: Masculinity in Multinationals
Part I. Theorizing Gender and Organizations
1. Theorizing Gender and Organization: Changing Times, Changing Theories, Linda Smircich, Marta Calas, Evangelina Holvino
2. Disturbing Thoughts and Gendered Practices: A Discursive View of Feminist Organizational Analysis, Albert Mills, Jean Helms-Mills, Marianne Paludi
3. Organizations as Symbolic Gendered Order, Silvia Gherardi
4. Was will der Mann?, Heather Hopfl
5. Feminism, Post-Feminism and Emerging Femininities in Entrepreneurship, Patricia Lewis
6. Meaning that Matters: An Organization Communication perspective on Gender, Discourse, and Materiality., Karen Lee Ashcraft, Kate Lockwood Harris
Part II. Gender in Leadership and Management
7. Female Advantage Revisited, Alice Eagly, Leire Gartzia, Linda L. Carli
8. The Rocky Climb: Women's Advancement in Management, Isabel Metz, Carol Kulik
9. Leadership: A Matter of Gender?, Yvonne du Billing, Mats Alvesson
10. Negative Intra-gender Relations between Women: Friendship, Competition and Female Misogyny, Sharon Mavin, Janine Williams, Gina Grandy
11. Sex, Gender & Leadership: What do Four Decades of Research Tell Us?, Gary Powell
12. Gendered Constructions of Merit and Impression Management within Professional Services Firms, Savita Kumra
Part III. Gender and Careers
13. Gender & Careers: Obstacles and Opportunities, Debra Major, Val Streets
14. The Glass Cliff: Examining Why Women Occupy Leadership in Precarious Circumstances, Susanne Bruckmuller, Michelle Ryan, Floor Rink, Alex Haslam
15. Power and Resistance in Gender Equality Strategies: Comparing Quotas and Small Wins, Yvonne Benschop & Marieke van den Brink
16. Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, Sandra Fielden, Carianne Hunt
17. Organizational Culture, Work Investments, and the Careers of Men: Disadvantages to Women?, Ron Burke
18. Challenging Gender Boundaries: Pressures and Constraints on Women in Non-Traditional Occupations, Barbara Bagilhole
Part IV. Masculinities in Organizations
19. Contextualizing Men, Masculinities, Leadership and Management: Embodied/Virtual, Theory/Practice, Jeff Hearn
20. Masculinities in Management: Hidden, Invisible & Persistent, Stephen Whitehead
21. Masculinity and Sexuality at Work: Incorporating Gay and Bisexual Men's Perspectives, Nick Rumens
22. Doing Gender Differently: Men in Caring Occupations, Ruth Simpson
23. Masculinity in the Financial Sector, David Knights, Marie Tullberg
24. Masculinity in Multinationals, Janne Tienari, Alexei Koveshnikov