Masculinity: Is your manager phallic, testicular or seminal?

Now available online before print

Linstead, S. A. and Marechal, G. (2015) Re-reading Masculine Organization: Phallic, Testicular and Seminal Metaphors Human Relations  SAGE Online First  
DOI 10.1177/0018726714558146

If you can't access it, you can get access to an uncorrected proof copy here (just scroll down the link)

Masculinity Paper

As a taster, the abstract.....

Why Qualified Women Don't Make It to Executive Leadership - Sponsors v Mentors

The diagram below captures what reports on both sides of the Atlantic have been saying for some years now - whilst women's participation in the workforce at entry levels, in larger companies at least, matches the broad division of the sexes in society at large the higher you go the worse it gets, until at the very highest levels you are looking at a Pareto advantage in favour of the male (which has to spell hegemony in any language)

                              

My apologies that I didn't pick up this Forbes article when it first came out some time ago - but thanks to Garance Marechal of the University of Liverpool for alerting me to it recently.

Why qualified women don't make it to executive leadership

By way of atonement, here's a the link to the full report as a pdf.

The Sponsor Effect

Some other more up to date useful links from the same fecund source - the first somewhat pessimistic

Why we'll NEVER see gender equality in the workplace

Women aren't getting to the top. Why?

The No. 1 reason why women are not getting promoted