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ISBN 10: 0230283705 
ISBN 13: 9780230283701
Author: Sarah Rutherford

Corporate diversity programs often fail because of resistance in workplace culture. The author sets out an approach to real change by analysing the role of organisational cultures in marginalising women workers. Based on academic research, case studies and interviews, the author presents a new model for changing organisational culture

Women s Work Men s Cultures Overcoming Resistance and Changing Organizational Cultures 1st Table of contents:

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

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