Purpose – This editorial aims to introduce the special issue on meritocracy, difference and choice. Design/methodology/approach – The first part is a commentary on key issues in the study of the notions of meritocracy, difference and choice. The second part presents the six papers in the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how women in senior management draw on discourses of merit and special contribution in making sense of the contradictions and tensions they experience in their working lives. It has a particular focus on how women explain possible experiences...

Purpose: This study investigates the overarching ideology of work–life balance (WLB) or conflict as predominantly being a work–family affair. Based on a Nigerian study, and using organisational justice as a theoretical lens, it explores perceived fairness in accessing family-friendly...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the “gendering” of contamination in the context of COVID-19 where “gendering” is taken to include other, cross-cutting areas of disadvantage. Design/methodology/approach: This paper draws on secondary sources to explore gender and...

The writing‘s author demonstrates the impact of changes occuring as a consequence of flexible employment patterns on the position of senior managers, based on an empirical survey. To describe this, the conception of „survival syndrom“ seems to be the most apropriate: the managers wish to...