Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to revisit earlier predictions by Judi Marshall in 1991 to explore whether similar issues were evident in a sample of contemporary female managers. Design/methodology/approach – Qualitative data from six Australian female managers who had participated...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the paper “Restructuring workplace cultures: the ultimate work‐family challenge?” is published in Women in Management Review , Vol. 16 No. 1, 2001, pp. 21‐9. Design/methodology/approach – The impact of the paper is considered...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess how work‐life polices and practices have the potential to enhance opportunities for women in the workplace (and opportunities for men to be more involved in family life), but are often undermined by workplace culture....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the gender composition of retail management and various issues in the careers of women managers during the last 25 years, a time period that has been transformational in many ways for UK retailing. Design/methodology/approach – The paper...

Purpose – Navigating the tenure and promotion process can be a daunting task for faculty members regardless of race or gender at institutions of higher learning. The purpose of this paper is to reflect the experiences of a Black female as she navigates the tenure and promotion process at a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the ways in which butch lesbians manage and negotiate their sexual identity in the workplace. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative study using online ethnographical enquiry to explore lesbians' experiences of performing butch identity...

Purpose This study aims to examine the effect of gender perspectives in organizational leadership and culture on organizational innovations within the oil and gas industry in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Design/methodology/approach The study examined research in the area of organizational...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to foreground non-conformity in organisational life as it relates to black female managers. My intervention here is to problematise organisational theory in relation to its limited ability to engage with affect and to point to a more generative framework....

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate how organizational structure (i.e. centralized hierarchical vs decentralized egalitarian decision-making) can color leadership evaluations of equivalently positioned men and women independent of their actual leadership style. This study addresses three...

Purpose – Women remain underrepresented at senior levels in global investment banks. By investigating promotion processes in this sector, and using the concept of a multi-level, relational framework, this paper seeks to examine macro, micro, and meso-level influences, and the interplay between...