Gender, Power and Organisation

by Nicolson; Paula

• ISBN13: 9780415104036
• ISBN10: 0415104033
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1996-08-16
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Work organizations have become a major site of gender politics for professional women and men over the last twenty years. There are more women in senior positions, but increased opportunities have not been gained without psychological consequences. Rather than detail the barriers to women's success, Paula Nicolson examines the problems they can face as a result. She re-examines the ways that patriarchal structures resist women's progress, and how male success has psychological implications for women's sense of subjectivity, self-esteem and gender identity, and how achieving against such odds has an impact on women's everyday lifes. Gender, Power and Organizationis particularly concerned with women who have achieved or aspire to professional power, and the psychological dimension of power for women, men and the organizations in which they work.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	viii
Introduction	ix
Part I Biography, biology and career
Introduction to Part I	3	(5)
Gender, subjectivity and feminism	8	(24)
Gender, knowledge and career	32	(19)
Femininity, masculinity and organisation	51	(24)
Part II Professional socialisation and patriarchal culture
Introduction to Part II	71	(4)
Gender at work	75	(26)
In the shadow of the glass ceiling	101	(16)
Sexuality, power and organisation	117	(22)
Part 3 Challenging patriarchy: No Man's Land?
Introduction to Part III	137	(2)
Barriers, boundaries and emotion: gender, power and meaning	139	(15)
Conclusions	154	(3)
References	157	(13)
Index	170