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The Emerald Handbook of Appearance in the Workplace

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The Emerald Handbook of Appearance in the Workplace

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Adelina Broadbridge

University of Stirling, UK

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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Dedication

For Ian. Love you.

About the Editor

Adelina Broadbridge, Stirling Management School, has spent a large part of her career teaching and researching HRM and diversity. A core theme of her research examines career development issues, with a specific focus on gender differences. She has authored over 50 peer reviewed articles, as well as a monograph, two other edited books, along with numerous book chapters and conference papers. She founded the globally recognised British Academy of Management’s Gender in Management Special Interest Group. She has chaired tracks at various international conferences, and co-developed and facilitated several professional and personal development programmes for women in academia. In 2019, she was awarded the BAM Medal for Leadership. She led Stirling Management School’s successful application for the Athena Swan Bronze Award. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Gender in Management: An International Journal.

About the Contributors

Kemi S. Anazodo, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Odette School of Business at the University of Windsor, in Ontario, Canada. Her research focuses on amplifying the voices of marginalised and stigmatised individuals as they navigate the employment landscape and employment processes. Dr Anazodo employs mixed methodologies to delve into social phenomena, such as identity, equity and stigma, shedding light on how individuals navigate the complexities of their employment experiences.

One of Dr Anazodo's key areas of investigation is the integration and reintegration of justice-involved individuals into the workforce. Her research examines the experiences and processes involved in successfully incorporating these individuals into employment. Through interdisciplinary collaborations, Dr Anazodo has collaborated with colleagues from diverse backgrounds, resulting in numerous conference presentations and published works. Her contributions to the field encompass the perspectives of both employers and individuals with a criminal history, spanning topics such as job search, employment selection and sustaining employment.

By delving into the intricacies of employment dynamics, Dr Anazodo strives to bring about positive change and create a more inclusive and equitable work environment for all individuals, regardless of their background or past experiences.

Pelin Arsezen is an Assistant Professor of Tourism Management at Mugla University, Turkey. She researches on management, human resources management, behavioural sciences and strategic management. Her studies focus on management in tourism industry. She has published over 30 papers on relationship between workaholic behaviours and job satisfaction of tourism industry employees, the relationship between paternalistic leadership and business performance in small tourism businesses, and mobbing, and on 5 star hotel chains. She has authored a book and book chapters such as post-modern organisations, voluntary tourism and social change, and conducted a study on the relationship between paternalism and emotional commitment to the organisation and job satisfaction in small-scale tourism enterprises. She has worked at EU projects and The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey for Restructuring of Akdeniz University EU Documentation Centre, Tourism Cluster Competition and Performance Analysis. She has lectured on strategic management, career management, management and organisation.

Tarya Bardwell is a PhD student in the Organizational Science programme at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Her research interests include interpersonal interactions, stress and health in the workplace. She values a collaborative approach to research and works regularly with scholars in communication, sociology and psychology. She is pursuing an academic career in hopes of conducting research that informs efforts towards equity and well-being in the workplace.

Diane van den Broek, PhD, is an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Sydney Business School, where she was previously an Associate Professor. Her work provides accessible creative analysis that seeks to reform policy settings that improve the material reality of vulnerable workers. She is a leading scholar in the field of labour migration and has received substantial competitive grants to undertake research into migrant work in the horticulture industry. Her role as Co-Convenor of the Migrants@Work Research Group led to annual events that facilitated interaction between policymakers, practitioners and academics on the issues of work and migration. Aside from issues related to migrant work, Diane’s research has focused on workplace diversity and inclusion and aesthetics and identity.

Todd Brower is a Professor of Constitutional Law at Western State College of Law in California, USA, and teaches courses in Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression. He has an LL.M from Yale Law School, a J.D. from Stanford Law School, an A.B. cum laude from Princeton University and was a Fulbright Scholar in France. He was pro bono co-counsel in Karahalios v. National Federation of Federal Employees, local 1263, 489 US 527 (1989), argued before the US Supreme Court in the 1985–1986 Term.

Professor Brower is also the Judicial Education Director for the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity Law and Public Policy at the University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law. He has held that position since 2006, although Professor Brower has been working in judicial education for a significant portion of his professional career since 1980. He has worked with the courts of several nations in Europe, in Africa, in North, Central and South America and with the judiciaries of most US states and federal agencies. He has taught for the National Judicial College since 2008 and worked with several international and national judicial and judicial education organisations. Professor Brower is the 2021–2022 President of the National Association of State Judicial Educators, the professional organisation for judicial and court employee education personnel.

Professor Brower's scholarly work involves courts and access to the judicial system. He is the author of various law review articles, book chapters, research studies and academic publications on the treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) persons in the courts. He co-edited two books on judicial education on sexual orientation and gender identity in Russian and Serbo-Croatian and was one of the Special Issue Editors for peer-reviewed academic journals in the United Kingdom and Italy. Professor Brower was the researcher and author of two reports on the treatment of LGBT court employees in the courts of England and Wales, and one of the main co-authors of a report on the treatment and experiences of court users and court employees in California. He served on the California Judicial Council – Access and Fairness Advisory Committee and was the Chair of its Subcommittee on Sexual Orientation Fairness and Co-Chair of its Subcommittee on Access for Persons with Disabilities.

Frank J. Cavico is a Professor Emeritus of Business Law and Ethics at the H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship of Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. He has served as a faculty member at the school for 30 years. He has also taught Constitutional and Administrative Law at the doctoral level in the Huizenga School. Professor Cavico holds an LL.M degree from the University of San Diego, a J.D. from St Mary's University, a master's degree in Political Science from Drew University and a BA in Political Science from Gettysburg College.

Terence Chia is a registered Psychologist and an Adjunct Lecturer at Edith Cowan University’s School of Business and Law. He received his PhD in Management and a master’s degree in Industrial and Organisational Psychology from the University of Western Australia. He is passionate about research on leadership, culture and the organisational context, and investigates how these variables can reduce psychosocial risks and hazards, and positively influence employee well-being and team performance.

Gail A. Dawson is an Associate Professor of Management and Director of Diversity and Inclusion at the Rollins College of Business at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Dr Dawson holds a PhD in Business Administration from the University of South Florida. She has taught a wide range of classes on the graduate and undergraduate level including human resource management, diversity and organisational behaviour.

Leonidas Efthymiou is an Associate Professor in Organisation, Tourism and Hospitality Studies at the University of Nicosia, and adjunct faculty at Unicaf University. He previously worked at Intercollege, Pearson Education and the University of Leicester. He has also taught online for Universities in Europe, Africa and the United States. He also travels frequently to Africa, in his capacity as Instructional Designer. He has co-edited and published several books, articles, media reports, policy papers, encyclopaedia articles and participates in EU-funded projects. His research output lies at the intersection of employment, digitisation and education. He has received a number of awards, including the best PhD Thesis award by the Academy of Management in 2011, Boston, Massachusetts. Prior to this, he trained at the universities of Leicester (PhD, MSc), Derby (BA) and the Higher Hotel Institute Cyprus (Dip. Hons).

Sajia Ferdous, Queen's University Belfast, UK. Sajia Ferdous is a Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour in Queen's University Management School, Queen's University Belfast. Her research mainly explores the intersections of gender, race/ethnicity, age, religion and class within work and employment contexts. She has written about gender, ageing, intersectionality and migrants' integration issues with a particular focus on South Asian British Muslim diasporas in the United Kingdom.

Tonya K. Frevert is a semi-retired Adjunct Professor in the Department of Sociology at UNC Charlotte. She holds master's degrees in psychology (Northern Arizona University, 2012) and sociology (UNC, Charlotte, 2012) and a PhD in Organizational Science (UNC, Charlotte, 2015). Using an intersectional lens, her research critiques the reproduction of structural inequality in organisations and institutions. Her recent work focuses on removing equity gaps in STEM higher education.

Elise Gagnon is a graduate student pursuing Master’s of Science in Organizational Studies with the Levene Graduate School of Business at the University of Regina located in Saskatchewan, Canada. Her research thus far has focused on employee engagement and recovery, and their effects on various facets of individual well-being.

Gina Grandy is a Professor and Dean with the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary, Canada. Her research interests are in leadership, gender and women in leadership, identity, stigmatised work, competitive advantage and case writing. Her work has been published in such outlets as Human Relations, Gender, Work & Organization, Organization, Management Learning, British Journal of Management and Journal of Business Ethics. She co-edited the Handbook of Qualitative Research in Business and Management (2018) and Stigma, Work and Organizations (2017) and is past Editor of Case Research Journal.

Dr Sharon Grant is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. Sharon's research interests include organisational, social and health psychology, with a particular emphasis on weight stigma and related discrimination in obesity, and its negative effect on psychological/physical health and health behaviour. Sharon has conducted research on negative obesity stereotypes in Australia, weight-related discrimination in employment and the effect of imagery and messages in (mock) weight-related public health campaigns on anti-fat attitudes, perceived weight stigma and motivation and self-efficacy for healthy behaviour change. Sharon is an advocate for body size diversity, including the use of weight-inclusive (versus weight normative) images and messages in public health settings and the media.

Richard Hall, PhD, is a Professor and Deputy Dean of Leadership and Executive Education at Monash Business School at Monash University in Australia. Before joining Monash, Richard was the Professor of Work and Organisational Studies, and Associate Dean for Executive Management Education at the University of Sydney. His research interests focus on leadership, industrial relations and management education. He is the lead co-editor of the four-volume reference work Leadership Development and Practice (Sage, 2014).

Nancy Hodges, PhD, is the Burlington Industries Professor and Head of the Department of Consumer, Apparel, and Retail Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Her research explores topics related to appearance and consumption and well as issues of women's education for and work in the global apparel industry. She has published multiple books and book chapters as well as more than 60 journal articles in such journals as the Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, the Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management and Women's Studies International Forum. She has received more than $1million in grant funding in support of her research.

Laura Hurd, MSW, PhD, is a Sociologist whose areas of expertise include the sociology of ageing, body image, embodiment and health. Her programme of qualitative research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research and has examined older men and women's experiences of ageism, physical changes, health, illness and social exclusion. She has published widely in journals such as Ageing and Society, Journal of Aging Studies, Women and Aging, Canadian Journal on Aging, Qualitative Health Research, Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine and Sociology of Health and Illness. Her book, Facing Age: Women growing older in anti-aging culture, was published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2011. Her current research is investigating the experiences and perspectives of gender and sexually diverse older adults.

Marjut Jyrkinen is a Professor in Working Life Equality and Gender Studies, University of Helsinki. She is Vice Director of the Gender, Society and Culture doctoral programme, and has a title of docent in administration and organisation studies at the University of Helsinki. She leads the consortium En Route to Recovery: Diversity and Vulnerability in Care Work During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic which is funded by the Trans-Atlantic Platform. Jyrkinen's research interests relate to gender and intersectionalities in society and working life as well as in the contexts of management and organisations. She has studied women manager's careers, gendered ageism and gendered violence, has been involved in many gender equality projects and acted in several international and national expert positions and tasks. Her research has been published, for instance, in Gender, Work and Organization, Journal of Business Ethics, Gender in Management – An International Journal and Work, Employment and Society.

Dr Achilleas Karayiannis is an Assistant Professor in Sustainability and Organizational Behaviour at Neapolis University in Paphos. Until recently, Achilleas was a Lecturer in Human Resources Management and Sustainability at Aston University in Birmingham.

Achilleas has done a BSc in “Business Administration and Management with Psychology” (2001–2004, Oxford Brookes university), an MA in “Organization Studies” (2004–2005, Warwick university) and a PhD titled “Acting and Performing: An Organizational Approach” (2005–2009, Essex university).

Achilleas’ research interests are focused on the exchange of roles at the intersection between everyday and professional life, on the pedagogical role of sustainability and the role of sustainability in the creation of sustainable competitive advantages for organisations and businesses. Achilleas authors articles in “Insider Cyprus” and “Forbes Cyprus” that are related to his research interests.”

Mira Karjalainen is an Associate Professor (docent) in the Department of Cultures at the University of Helsinki and Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics (JSBE). Her research on gender, organisations and management has focused on work–life balance, social sustainability of organisations, remote work and aesthetic labour, emotional and spiritual labour. Her current research project, funded by the Kone Foundation and carried out at the University of Helsinki, focuses on blurring boundaries of work, especially on friendships, networks and social labour. She has published in, for example, Organization, Sociology Compass and Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal.

Katherine A. Karl is the Henry Hart Professor of Management in the Rollins College of Business at UTC and holds a PhD in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management from Michigan State University. Dr Karl has taught a wide variety of courses including human resource management, employment law, labour relations, training and development, management skills, grievance and arbitration, organisational behaviour, principles of management and strategic management. Her research has focused on workplace polices related to employee attire and appearance, social media, workplace fun, workplace romance, employment termination, and also on generational differences, job values, performance feedback and the use of videotaped feedback in management education and development.

Sharon Mavin is a Professor of Leadership and Organisation Studies at Newcastle University following tenure as Director of Newcastle University Business School. Previously she held Dean, Director and Associate Dean Research roles at Roehampton and Northumbria Universities in the United Kingdom. Sharon is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, Royal Society of Arts and of the British Academy of Management (BAM). She was awarded the BAM Medal for Leadership in 2021 and added to the Northern Power Women Power List in 2022. Her recent research has been published in such journals as Gender, Work and Organization, Management Learning, Human Relations and Gender in Management: An International Journal. Sharon co-edited the Routledge Handbook of Research Methods on Gender in Management (2021).

Linda McKie joined the Faculty of Social Sciences and Public Policy at King's in January 2022. She was previously Dean/Head of School of the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Edinburgh. Linda is currently Principal Investigator on the UKRI, Healthy Ageing Programme Grant on Healthier Working Lives and Ageing for Workers in the Care Sector: Developing Careers, enhancing Continuity, Promoting Wellbeing (https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/research/research-project/healthier-working-lives-care-workforce) and is also working with the Advanced Care Research Centre at the University of Edinburgh on transitions in care; www.ed.ac.uk/usher/advanced-care-research-centre. She is also a member of the Trans-Atlantic Platform project on care work during and after COVID-19 pandemic. In 2004, Linda was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) and has chaired grant award panels for a range of UK and EU funding bodies including the Academy of Finland, ESRC and EU COST.

Toby Mizzi is a registered Psychologist (counselling psychologist) and supervisor with over 10 years' experience working in mental health and disability. Toby previously worked at Swinburne University of Technology from 2008 to 2020 in a Lecturer/Tutor role in the psychology discipline. Toby has previously co-authored peer-reviewed papers investigating weight-based stereotypes and the impact of weight on hiring decisions.

Bahaudin G. Mujtaba is a Professor of Human Resources and International Management at the Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship of Nova Southeastern University. Bahaudin is the author and co-author of books dealing with diversity, ethics and business management. During the past 30 years, he has had the pleasure of working with researchers, managers and human resource professionals in the United States, China, Japan, Brazil, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, St Lucia, Grenada, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Bahamas, Jamaica, Morocco and others around the globe.

Elyse O'Loghlen is a PhD candidate and provisionally registered psychologist at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Elyse has received several awards for research excellence, including the Australian Psychological Society Prize (2019) and the Swinburne University Medal for the most outstanding undergraduate student in the Faculty of Health, Arts and Design (2019). Elyse's research interests include eating- and body image-related disorders and weight-related discrimination, and she is an advocate for the health at every size approach to public health. Elyse's PhD research explores personal and social factors that predict the severity and function of binge eating symptoms and she has published several peer-reviewed articles in this area.

Yianna Orphanidou is an Associate Lecturer in the field of Hospitality and Tourism at the University of Nicosia. She is a holder of a BA (HONS) in Hospitality Management and an MSc in Hospitality and Tourism Education from Surrey University (UK). She has an extensive practical and academic experience in the field of Tourism and Hospitality Management. She has participated in the technical and research teams of more than 20 funded European, International and National projects. She serves in a numerous Tourism and Hospitality professional organisations from the position of a board director. Her main research interest includes tourism sustainable development and hospitality human resources.

Mustafa F. Özbilgin is a Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Brunel Business School, London. He also holds two international positions: Co-Chaire Management et Diversité at Université Paris Dauphine and Visiting Professor of Management at Koç University in Istanbul. His research focuses on equality, diversity and inclusion at work from comparative and relational perspectives. He has conducted field studies in the United Kingdom and internationally and his work is empirically grounded. His research is supported by international as well as national grants. His work has a focus on changing policy and practice in equality and diversity at work. He is an engaged scholar, driven by values of workplace democracy, equality for all and humanisation of work.

Joy V. Peluchette is a Senior Professor of Management at Lindenwood University. She previously taught at the University of Wollongong (NSW Australia) and at the University of Southern Indiana. Dr Peluchette holds a D.B.A. in Organizational Behavior from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Dr Peluchette has taught a wide range of management courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, including organisational behaviour, principles of management, leadership skills, human resource management, business/government and society, diversity management and strategic management. Her recent research publications have focused on the human resource implications of workplace attire, workplace fun and use of social media, as well as issues related to the millennial generation such as helicopter parenting.

Marios Samdanis is a Senior Lecturer in Strategy, Entrepreneurship and International Management at Brunel Business School, Brunel University, London. His research interests revolve around creativity, new technologies, leadership and diversity. His published research includes themes, such as atypical leaders, creative leaders and inequalities in the artistic labour market. Prior to joining Brunel University London, Marios was a Lecturer in Art Business at Sotheby's Institute of Art and an Associate Lecturer in Digital Creativity and New Media Management at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Minita Sanghvi, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Management and Business Department at Skidmore College. Her research focuses on gender and intersectionality in marketing and consumption. Her book Gender and Political Marketing in the United States and the 2016 Presidential Election: An Analysis of Why She Lost was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2019. She has published articles in Journal of Marketing Management and Journal of Business Research. Taking her research beyond words, Dr Sanghvi co-curated an art exhibit titled: Never done: 100 years of women in politics and beyond at the Frances Young Tang Museum. And in 2021, she ran for election and was elected the first woman of colour and first LGBTQ commissioner in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Tipakorn Senathip earned a Master’s of Public Administration degree from the faculty of political sciences at Ramkhamhaeng University (RU) in Bangkok, Thailand. She is now conducting doctoral research in public administration human resources and training practices at RU. She worked at the Institute of International Studies (IIS) of RU. As part of her administrative responsibilities at IIS, she dealt with cross-cultural faculty members and students from all over the globe, including Thais. Her areas of research interests include human resources, training, sustainability and gender equality development.

Andrew R. Timming is a Professor of Human Resource Management at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology's College of Business. He holds a PhD in Economic Sociology from the University of Cambridge. His research centres around three main themes: employee selection decision-making, employee voice and occupational health and safety. He is an Associate Editor at Human Resource Management Journal and International Journal of Human Resource Management and sits on the Editorial Board of Human Resource Management. His Twitter handle is @timminglab.

Lisa Slattery Walker (formerly Rashotte) received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Arizona in 1998. Her research focuses on small group interaction, non-verbal behaviours, identity, emotions, gender and expectations. Her work has appeared in Social Psychology Quarterly, Social Science Research, Social Forces, Sex Roles and numerous other journals. Recently, she has conducted projects on altering the status meaning of gender and, with Murray Webster, on the effect of behaviours on inequality structures in small groups.

Chris Warhurst, PhD, FRSA, FAcSS is a Professor and Director of the Institute for Employment Research at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. His research focuses on aesthetic labour, job quality and skills. He is an Associate Research Fellow of SKOPE at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the United Kingdom's Productivity Institute. He has been an expert advisor to the United Kingdom, Scottish and Australian Governments as well as to Eurofound, the OECD, Oxfam Scotland and the Scottish Living Wage campaign. He is the Co-Chair of ReWAGE, an ESRC-funded UK expert advisory group on building back better work and employment post-Covid. He has published 18 books, including Aesthetic Labour (Sage, 2020) and Looking Good, Sounding Right (Industrial Society, 2001).

Peter Waring is a Pro Vice Chancellor Transnational Education and also Singapore Dean for Murdoch University. As a qualified lawyer, Peter also holds degrees in Commerce and Management and a PhD in Industrial Relations. Peter is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Peter is the co-author of five books on employment relations. Overall he has published more than a 100 book chapters and articles in leading international and national journals. His research and teaching interests span the business and law fields of employment relations, human resource management, corporate governance, labour law and Higher Education Policy. He has lived in Singapore for the last 20 years.

Beth Wood is a graduate of the University of Stirling who is now pursuing a career in the financial sector as a Data Analytics Consultant. The quantitative data and research that she collated on the impact of tattoos on employability has led her to this data-driven and analytics role.

Julia Yates, City, University of London, UK. Julia Yates is an Associate Professor in the department of psychology at the City, University of London where she teaches on their MSc in Organisational Psychology. Her research interests are in career decision-making, the career development of those facing barriers at work and the impact of appearance on career paths. She has written a number of books on the topic of career coaching, most recently The Career Coaching Toolkit.

Nicole C. Jones Young, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at Franklin & Marshall College in Pennsylvania, US. Her research primarily focuses on the employment experiences of marginalised populations, such as individuals with a criminal history as well as organisational inclusion and anti-Black racism, both in academia and traditional workplace settings. She has collaborated with multiple management scholars, presented at various conferences and published a variety of work in academic journals on both of the aforementioned research areas. Dr Young also has a recent book on the topic of hiring individuals who possess a criminal history, currently titled Now Hiring: A Manager’s Guide to Employing Applicants With a Criminal History.

Acknowledgements

I’d like to thank Dr Helen Beddow for her enthusiasm and commissioning this book in the first place. Thanks also to the Emerald team associated with this book and all the authors of the chapters. Without these people there would be no book.

I especially thank Shirley Warnock-Lowe for agreeing to feature on the front cover of this book, and also Rebecca Wilson for her skills in taking the photograph. These women work at Central Scotland School of Jewellery (founded by Jo Pudelko) and Central Scotland School of Craft (proprietor, Rebecca Wilson). Along with various other highly experienced and talented women artists, they provide unique workshops and classes where participants can grow their creative skills in a supportive and welcoming environment where sustainability is at the core of their practice. For more information about this wonderful endeavour see Central Scotland School of Jewellery – Central Scotland School of Jewellery (cssj.co.uk) and Classes & Workshops – An Artisan Craft School in Dunblane (scottishcraftschool.com).

I am indebted to a number of people throughout my academic career, many of whom have become treasured friends. My first venture in editing books was with Dr Sandra Fielden and I particularly thank her for her guidance, support and precious friendship. Other people who have been a joy to work with and are now cherished friends include Gail Clarkson, Ian Fillis, Karen Forrest, Lisa Haddow, Carol Marshall, Andrie Michaelides, Agneta Moulettes and Ian Spencer. I also am grateful to my colleagues from the British Academy of Management Gender in Management Special Interest Group who have provided much debate and stimulation of research activities. Finally, I am not forgetting ‘help’ from my four-legged family – Jamie and Cleo – who always make me smile.

I am lucky to have you all in my life.