Freedom from or Freedom to... Margaret Atwood in Nottingham in September

Beach body or bass?

A couple of articles about the advertising campaign that many women found oppressive in relation to pressure to have a "beach ready" body and their response to it. This is a repost due to tehcnical problems with the original post

Beach Body Ready Ad Protest

Blogger's battle with beach body ad

And Meghan Traynor, not otherwise known for political correctness, has her own musical take on the issues.

Why not celebrate someone like us...

A piece by Anna Einarsdottir from The Conversation written for last International Women's Day. We are delighted that Anna has just joined us at York so this also serves as an introduction to a new contributor to this blog.

Why not celebrate someone like you?

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?