Michele Rene Gregory

The Face of the Firm

Corporate Hegemonic Masculinity at Work

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Despite decades of greater awareness of gender at work in Western countries, gender inequality in the executive suites is alive and well. The Face of the Firm highlights new critical perspectives on the relationship between hegemonic masculine cultures, gender embodiment and gender disparities in corporate organizations. Using multiple methodologies including over 100 interviews, mainly with British female and male executives in the UK who worked for some of the most prestigious American and British multinational advertising agencies and computer companies, the book makes important connections between the empirical data and contemporary sexism in the UK and US. The book refocuses the debate of executive work, organizational spaces and gender inequality on gendered bodies at work. It also demonstrates that gendered and sexualized relations among executives often construct the production process. The book makes a contribution to masculinity, gender and work scholarship and is organized along three key concepts: homogeneity, homosociability and heterosexuality. These address such factors as the organizational "locker room," sexual and heterosexual spaces at work and the construction of women and men as different workers. This conceptual model is crucial for evaluating the mechanisms that support male dominance among highly skilled professionals and executives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781138189003
• ISBN-10: 1138189006
• Artikelnr.: 43748597

Autorenporträt

Michele Rene Gregory is Associate Professor of Sociology at York College of The City University of New York, where she teaches courses on race and ethnicity, sociology of work and complex organizations. Her research focuses on managerial masculinities, athletic embodiment in organizations, and gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity in the workplace.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Corporate Masculine Embodiment and Mechanisms of Inequality at
Work
Chapter 2: Gendered Structures and Masculine Cultures in Advertising and
Computing
Chapter 3: Homogeneity: In His Image
Chapter 4: Homosociability: Make Way for the Men's Room
Chapter 5: A League Of Their Own: A Minor League with Major Potential
Chapter 6: Heterosexuality: Mad Men British Style
Chapter 7: Conclusion: New Businesses, Old Habits and Challenges to
Equality
Appendices:
Appendix A: Methodology
Appendix B: The Interview Schedule
Appendix C: Computer Personnel Data
Appendix D: Questionnaire Results
Appendix E: Advertising Department and Gender Data
References
Index