Understanding gender and organizations / Mats Alvesson and Yvonne Due Billing.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [230]-242.

Machine generated contents note: Preface vii -- 1 Introduction 1 -- Organizations and gender - a neglected area 5 -- The idea of gender studies: sensitizing thinking 9 -- Gender over-and under-sensitivity 12 -- On readership and limitations 17 -- The outline of the book 18 -- 2 Different Perspectives on Gender 21 -- The 'gender-as-a-variable' perspective 24 -- The feminist standpoint perspective 29 -- Poststructuralist feminism 37 -- A critical-interpretive perspective 44 -- A research 'agenda' based on all three perspectives? 51 -- 3 Gender and Work 54 -- A brief history of work 54 -- Contemporary work, horizontal and vertical division of -- labour 60 -- Different ways of understanding women's and men's positions -- in the labour market 65 -- Macro-level 65 -- 4 Masculinities, Femininities and Work 82 -- Some views on masculinity and femininity 83 -- Division of labour, sex typing and gender symbolism 90 -- Masculinities, femininities and identity 96 -- Summary 99 -- 5 Gender, Organizational Culture and Sexuality 103 -- On organizational culture 103 -- Pressure for homogeneity and culturally competent -- behaviour 107 -- Illustrating culture: rituals, artefacts and metaphors 109 -- One-gendered workplaces 114 -- Sexuality in organizations 120 -- Workplace culture and sexuality at Ludvig's Advertising -- Agency 125 -- Summary 131 -- 6 Women and Management I: A Review of Research Results 134 -- Changing ideas on leadership 135 -- Explanations for the limited number of women in managerial -- jobs 136 -- Style of leadership - women compared to men 143 -- Difficulties of women managers 147 -- Summary 150 -- 7 Women and Management II: Four Positions 153 -- The equal opportunities position 153 -- The meritocratic position 157 -- The special contribution position 161 -- The alternative values position 165 -- Comparing the approaches 170 -- Poststructuralist and critical-interpretive comments 175 -- Summary and final comment 176 -- 8 Broadening the Agenda: From Women to Gender Relations 180 -- On the problems of drawing firm conclusions 181 -- Integrating gender and organization 185 -- Gender as the fundamental organizing principle? 191 -- On interests 192 -- On alternative agendas 197 -- Some problems in 'anti-male' and 'anti-masculine' gender and -- organization studies 199 -- Summary 205 -- 9 Reconstructing Gender and Organization Studies 209 -- Gendering organizational analysis and making gender studies -- sensitive for organizational issues 209 -- On the social construction and deconstruction of gender: -- beyond women and men 213 -- Defamiliarization of 'men' and 'women' 215 -- Final words 225 -- References 230 -- Index 243.