The construction of women's management skills and the marginalization of women in senior management

In: Women in management review, Band 12, Heft 7, S. 255-263

Abstract

Observes that over the past two decades a body of literature on perceived differences in the management skills of men and women has emerged. Demonstrates, in a detailed examination of sex/gender differences literature, that attempts to establish differences in management style and behaviour are inconclusive. Locating the article within feminist post‐structuralism, argues that it is important to focus not on the results of the sex/gender differences literature, but on its function and effects. Feels that the sex/gender differences literature functions to construct women's management skills and its effects are to both regulate and marginalize women in senior management.