'This very impressive Handbook takes established research topics about women in management and treats them in fresh and … stimulate high quality research on women's experiences in work organizations. I recommend it highly.' - Jean M. Bartunek, Boston … facing women in business and management, the specific career and work-life issues of women in these fields, organizational …

This book documents the progress that managerial and professional women have made in advancing their careers, and the … challenges and opportunities that remain. In the context of increasing numbers of women entering the workplace and indeed … pursuing professional and managerial careers, it examines why so few women occupy the top positions in corporations …

-48 -- Elaine Swan (2005), 'On Bodies, Rhinestones, and Pleasures: Women Teaching Managers', Management Learning, 36 (3), 317 …-33 -- Jennifer A. Chatman and Charles A. O'Reilly (2004), 'Asymmetric Reactions to Work Group Sex Diversity Among Men and Women …), 'Transformational, Transactional, and Laissez-Faire Leadership Styles: A Meta-Analysis Comparing Women and Men', Psychological Bulletin …