Chapter 1: The ‘problem’ of women on corporate boards -- Chapter 2: Explaining the lack of women in the boardroom: social capital and networking -- Chapter 3: The role of social capital and networking in board selection processes -- Chapter 4: Human capital theory, preference theory,...

Discussion of aesthetic labour has largely been confined to areas of interactive service work. However, current criteria for the presence of aesthetic labour have long been part of the labour process of performers and in an unusually overt and accepted way. Here, embodied characteristics are...

A union possesses characteristics research indicates makes gender equality activity likely, yet it acts like most unions in its limited, variable engagement with women's interests. Studies of the union 1997–2010 enable consideration of Dickens's three‐pronged approach to equality action and...