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

Are women more emotionally intelligent than men?

We tend to assume so, but Daniel Goleman qualifies that somewhat in Psychology Today.

And in any case that might not always be a good thing according to the research of Bacon, Burat and Rann on the dark side of emotional intelligence reported on the British Psychological Society blog.

Forbes on International Women's Day

The gender pay gap is widening not just in the West, but in China, where many of my postgraduate students will return to work. Margie Worrell reflects on what can be done by women to help themselves and what else they might need. The article has a video embedded on whether equality is achievable.. but if you're impatient it's below.

Women own your power

Is equality achievable?

They just don't get it, do they .... or do they?

My other country, Australia, managed, albeit briefly, to have a female Prime Minister. But the Liberal National Party in Queensland have apparently gone one further by holding their IWD lunch in a Men Only club.

Which reminds me of the time my lovely late post-feminist friend, Prof. Heather Hopfl, was invited by a publisher to receive an award for best paper in a gender journal at the Reform Club in London. On arrival, she was informed that she would have to wait, as it was necessary for her to be "signed in by a male member".  "Oh really" she responded, with a voice that you could pour on porridge,"can't I use a pen like everyone else?"

International Women's Day 2015

Sunday March 8th is International Women's Day, but several workplaces will celebrate on Friday or Monday, which is the day I will give my lecture.

International Women's Day 2015 Home

Why Can't Women Get Funding in Silicon Valley?

Although the geeky-blokey-nerdy hi-tech firms of the valley seem to have finally woken up to gender issues regarding the composition of their workforces, venture capitalists are still reluctant to give them money.


Are Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists Hiding Gender Inequality of Opportunity?




But although only 4.4% of VC funded companies are female led, and men are 40% more likely to get support for their projects, some women do succeed. Six of them tell how they did it here.