Women in Power: Undoing or Redoing the Gendered Organization?

Gender and Society

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 109-135

  Stainback, Kevin ^a   Kleiner, Sibyl ^b   Skaggs, Sheryl ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

gendered organizations; leadership; management; segregation; workplace

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DRAWING; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEADERSHIP; MALE; MANAGER; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84954501549     PISSN: 08912432     EISSN: 15523977     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891243215602906     Document Type: Article

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