The Face of the Firm

Corporate Hegemonic Masculinity at Work

Michele Gregory (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-18900-3 (ISBN)

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Despite decades of greater gender awareness 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 data from over 100 interviews with female and male executives who worked for some of the most prestigious advertising and computer firms in the world, the book makes important connections between the empirical data and contemporary sexism in the United States and United Kingdom. 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."

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	27.02.2016
Zusatzinfo	13 Tables, black and white; 11 Line drawings, black and white; 11 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	430 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10	1-138-18900-6 / 1138189006
ISBN-13	978-1-138-18900-3 / 9781138189003
Zustand	Neuware