Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: Volume 34 Issue 1

Racial awareness: effects on justice perceptions and trust in management in the USA

E. Holly Buttner, Kevin B. Lowe

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of the socio-demographic diversity characteristic, racioethnicity, vs the deeper-level socially constructed attribute…

Champions of gender equality: female and male executives as leaders of gender change

Jennifer Anne de Vries

The purpose of this paper is to examine male and female executives as leaders “championing” gender change interventions. It problematizes current exhortations for male leaders to…

Excellence and gender: Playing the game of scientific excellence or being played by the game? The Swiss example

Farinaz Fassa

Discussing the Swiss case, the purpose of this paper is to examine how gender equality policies deal with the present requirements for scholars to be considered “excellent”. It…

“Unfair to women”? Equal representation policies in Swedish academia

Helen Peterson

The purpose of this paper is to highlight how women managers in Swedish higher education (HE) both support and resist policies about equal representation, and to discuss which…

Feminist thinking in late seventh-century China: A critical hermeneutics analysis of the case of Wu Zetian

Niya Peng, Tianyuan Yu, Albert Mills

The purpose of this paper is to offer novel insights into: knowledge of proto-feminism through description and analysis of the rule of the seventh century female Emperor Wu…

Work-family balance through border theory lens: the case of a company “driving in the fast lane”

Eleonora Karassvidou, Niki Glaveli

The purpose of this paper is to seek to provide support and extend work-family Border Theory (BT) in order to investigate organizational and individual factors that determine the…

Love & Empire: Cybermarriage and Citizenship across the Americas

Shu Ju Ada Cheng