Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Context -- Introduction -- 1 Women in society -- Introduction -- Women in employment in the United Kingdom -- Women and violence -- Women and the sexualization of culture -- Women and organizational culture -- 2 Belonging: meanings of organizational culture -- What is 'organizational culture'? -- Culture as exclusionary -- The psychodynamic approach -- Power -- Gendered culture -- A working definition of organizational culture -- The influence of history, ownership, and architecture -- Buildings and artefacts -- 3 The gender agenda -- Part 1: Equal opportunities, diversity, inclusion - what's in a word? -- Introduction -- Limits to equal opportunities -- Recognition of difference -- The move to diversity -- Inclusion -- Gender and diversity -- Part 2: The business case - refocused, renewed, repeated? -- Measurement -- Women - the economic driver -- Diversity fatigue -- Part 3: Gender awareness in organizations -- Talking about women - stereotypes -- How women see themselves -- Higher levels of awareness: Airco -- Concluding points -- 4 Style matters -- Introduction -- Management style -- Management as masculine -- Softer skills wanted -- Business/function needs -- Emotion legitimized -- Expression of emotion -- Managing differently? -- What happened to the female advantage? -- Double standards -- Learning to value women -- One big misunderstanding - the 'Men are from Mars' phenomenon -- Reasons for differences -- Status -- Brain and hormones - reinforcing stereotypes -- Concluding points -- 5 The public/private divide -- Introduction -- Home -- Unpaid work at home - the second shift -- Maternity returners -- Managing it all -- Conflict -- Discourse of choice -- 6 Are you going home already? The long-hours culture -- Time as a means of cultural resistance.

How many hours? -- Reasons for working long hours -- Women and long hours -- Organizational response to the long-hours culture -- Work-life balance -- The terminology/language -- The business case -- Fathers' rights -- Recession gives flexible working a boost -- Conclusions -- 7 Let's have a drink! Informal networking and socializing -- Introduction -- Women's networks -- Mentoring -- A bureaucratic long-term career culture - Airco -- After-hours socializing, including corporate entertainment -- Corporate entertaining -- Sport as means of entertaining and informal networking -- Sexual entertainment -- Women in the boardroom -- 8 Sex in the office -- Introduction -- Sexualized cultures -- The professional woman's dilemma -- The sexual continuum - from having fun to sexual harassment -- Banter -- Drawing a line -- Reporting -- Keeping quiet -- The impact of a non-heterosexual culture -- Sexuality as a form of exclusion or resistance -- Boys will be boys -- Organizational actions -- 9 Leaders and men -- Leadership -- Sustainability -- Challenging men -- Europe -- 10 On the road to change -- Fix the women -- Value the feminine/add women and stir -- Small deep cultural changes -- Holistic and systematic culture change -- Following the audit -- Resistance -- Women-led organizations -- Change gendered society -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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