Women, Business and Leadership

Edited by Alexander-Stamatios Antoniou, Associate Professor of Psychology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, Cary Cooper, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester and Caroline Gatrell, Professor of Organization Studies, University of Liverpool Management School, UK

Contents:

Introduction
PART I LEADERSHIP AND AUTHORITY: WOMEN AT THE HELM
1. Women’s entrepreneurship: discussing legal perspectives in light of individual and institutional drivers
Ulrike Fasbender and Yue S. Ang

2. Women in management and on corporate boards of directors: accelerating progress
Ronald J. Burke

3. Women leaders in times of economic crisis: leadership style, career self-efficacy, and job insecurity
Alexander-Stamatios Antoniou, Nikos Drosos and Mara Kourtoglou

4. For better or worse? Human resource practices and women in leadership
Sanjeewa Perera

5. Gender and authentic leadership: antecedents and consequences of leaders’ emotional labor
Laura D. Wojtas, Judith Kampa and Kathleen Otto

6. Gender and leadership in education
Alexander-Stamatios Antoniou and Marioleni Apergi

7. Goddess Athena as leader and mentor in Homeric epics
Christos-Thomas Kechagias and Alexander-Stamatios Antoniou

8. Transpersonal business leadership, global information economies, and diversity
Iris Rittenhofer

9. Understanding women’s entrepreneurial leadership in the context of families in business
Allan Discua Cruz, Eleanor Hamilton and Sarah L. Jack

PART II EXPERIENCE: HOW WOMEN IN BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT NEGOTIATE THEIR POSITION
10. Networking and gender equality in academic leadership
Paula Burkinshaw and Kate White

11. Gender-specific networking: mind the gap
Laura Weis and Alixe Lay

12. Female managers with male-type behavior
Alexander-Stamatios Antoniou and Virginia Aggelou

13. Gender norm enforcement at work
Jason C. Potwora and Tahira M. Probst

14. ‘Don’t you know that it’s different for girls?’: a dynamic exploration of trust, breach and violation for women en route to the top
Rosalind Searle, Ruth Sealy and Beverley Hawkins

15. Experiencing a secret career in healthcare science
Valerie Bevan

16. Pregnancy in the workplace: the role of stigmas, discrimination, and identity management
Pamela L. Perrewé, Shanna R. Daniels, Kaylee J. Hackney and Liam Maher

17. Pushback: negative career development experiences of United States post-tenure female faculty 1988–2011
Shani D. Carter and Cathyann D. Tully

PART ΙΙΙ CONSTRAINTS: STRUCTURAL AND CULTURAL IMPEDIMENTS AFFECTING WOMEN’S CAREER ADVANCEMENT
18. Shattering the stained glass ceiling: women leaders in the Church of England
Caroline Gatrell and Nigel Peyton

19. The steep way to the top: barriers to female leadership in tall hierarchical organizations
Sofia Schlamp, Fabiola H. Gerpott and Sven C. Voelpel

20. The psychological and social implications of the gender wage gap
Ritsa Fotinatos-Ventouratos

21. Stereotype threat: impacts for women at work
Lindsey M. Lavaysse and Tahira M. Probst

22. Attitudes toward women managers and female authority: an empirical study among women managers in Greece
Nikos Drosos and Alexander-Stamatios Antoniou

23. Another financial crisis? The underrepresentation of women in UK financial services
Elaine Dunn

24. Women as leaders and managers in sports: understanding key career enablers and constraints in the British horseracing industry
Kate Clayton-Hathway and Ulrike Fasbender

25. Lifetime disadvantage requires lifetime solutions
Susan Bisom-Rapp and Malcolm Sargeant

26. A blind spot in organization studies: gender with ethnicity, nationality and religion
Shehla Riza Arifeen and Caroline Gatrell

Index