Writing women into management or writing ourselves out: a dilemma for women as authors

Abstract

Examines the response of the discipline of management to the problem of the underrepresentation of women in senior management. Analyses 14 leading scholarly management journals and demonstrates that the journals ignore the problem of women’s underrepresentation and that this has important consequences for women. Women are largely underrepresented as authors in management journals and, when they do publish, they do not publish on the problems of women in senior management. Moreover, the exclusion of women in management as a topic in the journals does not appear to be positively influenced by the presence of female editors or the representation of women on editorial boards. Explores the manner in which the knowledge produced by women about women in senior management in journals such as Women in Management Review works in ways that are simultaneously liberating and self‐disciplining. Concludes by posing a profound dilemma for women who, as a consistent first choice, choose to publish in “gender journals” such as Women in Management Review.

Citation

Hall‐Taylor, B. (1997), "Writing women into management or writing ourselves out: a dilemma for women as authors", Women in Management Review, Vol. 12 No. 8, pp. 309-319. https://doi.org/10.1108/09649429710189902