Genderwashing in Leadership

Power, Policies and Politics

Rita A. Gardiner, Wendy Fox-Kirk, Carole J. Elliott, Valerie Stead, Rita A. Gardiner, Wendy Fox-Kirk, Carole J. Elliott, Valerie Stead

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781837539895
• eBook ISBN: 9781837539901
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Leadership
• Index: Business

Genderwashing is the process whereby organizational rhetoric differs from the lived experiences of workers, creating the myth of gender equity in the workplace. Genderwashing in Leadership considers how the process of genderwashing highlights hidden biases in organizational policies and procedures, and patriarchal cultural practices.

International scholars from diverse areas such as leadership, organizational studies, sociology, and education explore how genderwashing occurs from various perspectives, including leadership, power and privilege, identity, and career recruitment and selection. Uncovering epistemological assumptions that underpin and sustain genderwashing practices, the ways in which genderwashing intersects with embodiment and intersectionality and how genderwashing policies and practices restrict women's advancement into leadership, the editors host a space for dialogue and debate.

The Transformative Women Leaders Series is published in collaboration between the International Leadership Association (ILA) and Emerald Publishing. Celebrating women leaders and the leadership styles they employ to achieve success, the books in this series highlight successful context-specific leadership approaches and the moral qualities of endurance.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Editors
• Title
• Copyright
• Series Foreword
• Contents
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors
• Series Editor’s Preface
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Feminist Thoughts Before Annual Leave
• Chapter 2 Genderwashing (or Genderbleaching) in UK Historic Universities: A Veil for Gender-Based Violence
• Chapter 3 When “Small Talk” Becomes Meaningful: The Concept of Encounter in Manager–Employee Relationships
• Chapter 4 Business Schools, Accrediting Agencies and Gender: Washing or Spinning?
• Chapter 5 Affinity Groups in Higher Education: A Critical and Intersectional Examination of Genderwashing
• Chapter 6 Defensive Diversity Management as a Tool of Genderwashing in Exclusive Talent Management
• Chapter 7 Patriarchal Penalty: Genderwashing at Hockey Canada
• Chapter 8 Genderwashing in Pakistani Higher Educational Institutions
• Chapter 9 Rainbow Burning to Rainbow Washing: How (Not) to Manage LGBT1 Inclusion
• Chapter 10 Genderwashing and Militarization: Women, War and Social Progressiveness
• Chapter 11 Genderwashing Meets Girl Power: The Transnational Politics of Corporate–NGO Partnerships for Girls’ Education
• Afterword
• Index