Rethinking Gender Inequalities in Organizations: Rethinking Business and Management

Cheltenham (United Kingdom): Edward Elgar, 2024.

English

206 p.

978-1-80220-738-5

The author argues that current understandings of gender inequalities tend to focus too much on how to improve women’s access to higher value roles and occupations rather than questioning why some roles and occupations are seen to be so valuable in the first instance. Positing that organizations tend to value people and roles that are seen to visibly contribute to bottom line outcomes such as profit and reputation, the book argues that the undervaluation of particular forms of work is related to its perceived lack of centrality to such outcomes. While this problem is certainly more often prevalent in the types of work typically performed by women, it is also one that affects many men.

Electronic ed.

ELR 1647

English

MON-128371