Gender in Management: Volume 38 Issue 2

Guest editorial: Women-in-leadership research and feminist futures: new agendas for feminist research and impact on gender equality

Sharon Mavin, Carole Elliott, Val Stead, Gina Grandy

Gendered hybridity in leadership identities: a postfeminist analysis

Patricia Lewis, Yvonne Benschop

This paper aims to examine the discursive constitution of leadership identities by senior women leaders working in the City of London. This study draws on postfeminism as a…

Conceptualising feminist resistance in the postfeminist terrain

Karin Berglund, Helene Ahl, Katarina Pettersson, Malin Tillmar

In this paper, women entrepreneurs are seen as leaders and women leaders as entrepreneurial, making both groups an easy target of postfeminist expectations, governed by calls to…

“If your voice isn't accepted, does it mean you stop talking?” Exploring a woman leader’s reversal of postfeminist confidence discourses

Melissa Yoong

This study offers a lens for exploring women leaders’ production of resistance through postfeminist discourses. Through the case study of Bozoma Saint John, a high-profile Black…

Implementing gender-based violence policies in the neoliberal university: challenges and contradictions

Rita A. Gardiner, Hayley Finn

Undertaking feminist inquiry calls for scholars to challenge the powerful hegemonic, masculinist, taken for granted values and gender injustices that continue to underpin…

Feminist futures in gender-in-leadership research: self-reflexive approximations to intersectional situatedness

Jenny K. Rodriguez, Elisabeth Anna Guenther, Rafia Faiz

This paper introduces intersectional situatedness to develop inclusive analyses of leadership. Intersectional situatedness recognises the contextual and situated nature of…

Reflections on women’s progress into leadership in the UK and suggested areas for future research

Susan Vinnicombe, Sharon Mavin

The paper provides an invited “Viewpoint” from Professor Susan Vinnicombe, along with contributions from Professor Sharon Mavin, on women leaders’ progress on UK company boards…

Double jeopardy: the paradox and promise of coaching women leaders from a critical feminist perspective

Laura L. Bierema, Eunbi Sim, Weixin He, Alexandra B. Cox

The purpose of this paper is to interrogate the “double-jeopardy” in widely adopted women’s leadership development interventions aimed at “fixing” women, explore critical feminist…