Time for Solutions! (eBook, ePUB)

Overcoming Gender-related Career Barriers
Redaktion: Adams, Susan M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Gender equality in the workplace is a hot topic for multiple groups: businesses, governments, researchers and, most of all, workers. This book goes beyond describing the problems and highlighting bad practice. It focuses on understanding the sociological and psychological changes needed to achieve gender equality in the workplace.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351131650
• Artikelnr.: 56886751

Autorenporträt

Susan Adams is the Management Department Chair and Professor at Bentley University. She is Associate Editor of the Journal of Management Inquiry and has co-authored a book entitled Preparing Better Consultants: The Role of Academia. She regularly writes articles in academic and practitioner journals, focusing on careers of women and prominent leaders, organizational change and gender equality, and has won several awards. She earned a PhD in Organizational Behavior from Georgia Institute of Technology, the first woman in her field to do so.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I Breaking the Shackles of Gender-related Expectations: Assessing and
acknowledging reality
Chapter 1- The Global View of Gender Discrimination in Business: A story of
economic exclusion Laurel Steinfield and Linda Scott
Chapter 2- Queer Labor Benjamin Aslinger
Chapter 3- Gendered Perceptions in Healthcare: Overcoming subtle biases
Danielle Blanch-Hartigan
PART II Clearing the Path: Recognizing obstacles and opportunities
Chapter 4- Why Inclusion Makes Economic and Cultural Sense: Dissident
masculinities in Indian cinema Samir Dayal
Chapter 5- The Labyrinth of Women's Entrepreneurship Linda F. Edelman,
Candida G. Brush and Naeimah Alkhurafi
Chapter 6- Women vs. Women: Gender tokenism, indirect aggression and the
consequences for career advancement Ciara Morley
PART III Creating Paths for Gender Equality: Overcoming career-threatening
obstacles
Chapter 7- Asian Women in Business: The bamboo ceiling Hannah Finn-McMahon
and Susan M. Adams
Chapter 8- Being a Pioneer Woman in a Pioneering Company: What are the
lessons for organizations today? Lynne E. Devnew
Chapter 9- Sticky Solutions to Career Barriers: Process matters Opal Leung
and Susan M. Adams
Chapter 10- Conclusion: Time for solutions! Susan M. Adams