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...

About the contributors -- Introduction -- Postfeminism: negotiating equality with tradition in contemporary organizations / Patricia Lewis, Yvonne Benschop and Ruth Simpson -- Postfeminism and organization -- Postfeminism and gendered (im)mobilities / Patricia Lewis -- Doing-it-all : exploring...