August 2007
Intermediate to advanced
520 pages
12h 37m
English
Debra Meyerson, Robin Ely, Laura Wernick
Historically, much of the research on women and leadership has emphasized differences in men's and women's leadership styles and the structural and cognitive barriers in organizations that impair women's mobility and access to leadership opportunities.1 As organizational theorists, we have focused our research on the social construction of gender and, in particular, on how organizational arrangements shape, and are shaped by, women's and men's actions, interactions, and identities at work.2 Our insights about women and leadership have followed from our research on the organizational production of gender differences and gender inequality in the workplace and from ...
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