Challenging Women offers a radical reassessment of organisational forces for change, and the barriers encountered by … the 'challenging women' (senior women managers faced with the task of transforming their organisations) …

movement to replace the word and idea of “sex” with the word and idea of “gender” which is understood to mean gender identity …. We see this movement's effects every day, including on forms which ask for “gender” when they used to ask for “sex” and … identify. It is generally assumed that the switch from “sex” to “gender” is cost-free or that if there are costs, they are …

‐contractual ideologies, between a gender idealistic point of view and a management realistic one. Individuals, men and women, are more or … notion of consent, a notion at the heart of the debates concerning economic sexuality and which cannot be reduced to the … view appears only as a justification for the strong. Originality/value – The paper presents a sexual/gender point of view …