Gender in Management: Volume 24 Issue 8

Cross‐gender networking in the workplace: causes and consequences

Ignace Ng, Irene Hau‐siu Chow

This study seeks to examine how individual and organizational characteristics as well as attitudinal factors can affect the network composition of female managers. Another of its…

A more proactive approach to addressing gender‐related employment disparities in the United States

Mary E. Graham, Julie L. Hotchkiss

The purpose of this paper is to propose a proactive public policy approach to complement relatively reactive existing policies addressing gender‐related employment disparities in…

The spouse of the female manager: role and influence on the woman's career

Suvi Välimäki, Anna‐Maija Lämsä, Minna Hiillos

This paper aims to examine the role of the spouse, specifically the husband, for the woman manager's career by focusing on the gender role construction between spouses, and the…

Revisiting women managers and organisational acceptance

Glenice J. Wood

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.