Gender in Management: Volume 39 Issue 4

Female creative managers as drivers for gender diversity in advertising creative departments: a critical mass approach

David Roca, Aina Suárez, Saraí Meléndez-Rodríguez

The scarcity of women in advertising creative departments has been reported globally, particularly in creative managerial roles. This study goes a step beyond this evidence since…

Development and validation of the InEquality in organisations Scale (InE-S): a measure based on Acker’s inequality regimes

Susanne Tafvelin, Britt-Inger Keisu

The purpose of this study was to develop a scale that can be used to assess inequality at work based on gender, age and ethnicity that is grounded in Acker’s (2006) inequality…

Female chairs on the boards of European National Sports Federations: a comparative study

María Luisa Esteban Salvador, Emilia Pereira Fernandes, Tiziana Di Cimbrini, Charlie Smith, Gonca Güngör Göksu

This study aims to explore the impact of board size, board gender diversity and federation age on the likelihood of having a female chair in National Sports Federations (NSF).

Blood is thicker than water: an analysis of women’s presence on Pakistani boards

Eva Wagner, Helmut Pernsteiner, Aisha Riaz

This study aims to provide insights into gender diversity in Pakistani boardrooms, particularly for the dominant family business type, which is strongly guided by (non-financial…

Female empowerment and masculinity – a cultural trait? Evidence from the CEE countries

Aleksandra Gaweł, Katarzyna Mroczek-Dąbrowska, Malgorzata Bartosik-Purgat

As women’s position in the economy and society is often explained by cultural factors, this study aims to verify whether the observed changes in female empowerment in the region…

Influence of task-related diversity of R&D employees on the development of organisational innovations: a gender perspective

Adrian Testera Fuertes, Liliana Herrera

This paper aims to analyse the influence of workforce diversity on the firm’s likelihood to develop organisational innovations. Operationalising human resources diversity is not…

Who wreaks more havoc? Gender and the detrimental effect of abusive supervision on interpersonal deviance

Haizhen Wang, Ruoyong Zhang

Abusive supervision provokes subordinates’ interpersonal deviant behavior. It is, therefore, essential to explore the contingent factors of this relationship. Drawing upon gender…

“It is competence first”: executives navigating gender equality targets and meritocracy in technology companies

Susanna Bairoh

The purpose of this study is to understand how executives in technology companies relate to targets for gender equality, especially pertaining to top management.