Gender, Managers, and Organizations

Yvonne Due Billing, Mats Alvesson

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9783110129847
• eBook ISBN: 9783110850499
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

Table of contents

• Part One: Gender Perspectives
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Introductory reflections
• 1.2 Objectives of the study
• 1.3 Discussion of various motives for the growing interest in the subject
• 1.4 Structure and content of the book
• 2 Women in the labour market and in management positions
• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Women in the labour market
• 2.3 The gendered division of labour
• 2.4 Choice of profession/trade and education
• 2.5 Female managers
• 2.6 Specific organizations
• 2.7 Summary and suggestions for explanations
• 3 The social construction of gender
• 3.1 Macro-sociological explanatory models
• 3.2 Middle range and micro-sociological explanatory models
• 3.3 Power
• 3.4 Explanatory models in the field of socialization theory
• 3.5 Discussion
• 4 Similarities and differences between female and male managers
• 4.1 Leadership style
• 4.2 Different job reactions
• 4.3 The managerial woman
• 4.4 Discussion
• 5 The way to - and from a management position
• 5.1 Discrimination in connection with assessments
• 5.2 Discrimination against women in leading positions
• 5.3 Sex stereotypes and management positions
• 5.4 The importance of the composition of the sexes for discrimination
• 5.5 The level of the individual
• 5.6 Discussion
• 6 Ideas about women as managers
• 6.1 Are women different from men and thereby less qualified than men for management?
• 6.2 Do women have the same motivation as men with respect to work?
• 6.3 What is the importance of stereotyped ideas about women?
• 6.4 Subordinates’ resistance to female managers
• 6.5 Closing remarks
• Part Two: Three case-studies
• 7 The National Board of Social Welfare
• 7.1 The history of the organization
• 7.2 The prestige and career pattern of the organization
• 7.3 The organizational atmosphere
• 7.4 ‘68 democracy spirit
• 7.5 A- and B-teams
• 7.6 Promotion
• 7.7 Barriers for women?
• 7.8 Discussion
• 8 SAS
• 8.1 Introduction
• 8.2 Method
• 8.3 Description of the organization
• 8.4 Staff conditions
• 8.5 Composition of the sexes within the organization and as regards management positions
• 8.6 Recruitment for management positions
• 8.7 Female managers compared with male managers
• 8.8 Problems specific to female managers
• 8.9 Scanweb
• 8.10 Discussion
• 8.11 Summary
• 9 The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• 9.1 Introduction
• 9.2 A picture of the organization
• 9.3 Recruitment for and career tracks within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• 9.4 The job as a lifestyle
• 9.5 The gender composition within the organization - and at top level
• 9.6 Recruitment for managerial positions
• 9.7 Women and career
• 9.8 Women in the minority
• 9.9 Women in managerial positions
• 9.10 Discussion
• Part Three: Discussions and reflections
• 10 Reflections on the case-studies
• 10.1 Summary of the three case-studies
• 10.2 Barriers
• 10.3 Differences/similarities between women and men in management
• 10.4 Social change and organizational change
• 10.5 Can we make generalizations on the basis of our results?
• 11 Gender and organization - a differentiated understanding
• 11.1 Gender bias in organizations
• 11.2 Women - alike and unalike in an organizational context
• 11.3 Gender metaphors and organizations
• 11.4 Gender and organizational symbolism
• 11.5 Some suggestions on how to understand gender discrimination
• 11.6 Some implications of a differentiated view on gender and organization
• 11.7 Concluding remarks
• References