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The stereotype: fiction or fact -- Verbal and nonverbal face-to-face communication by gender -- Mediated communication and gender roles -- Early socialization in the home: influencing gendered scripts -- The educational landscape: connecting gender and identity -- Gendered scripts: women and men in the workplace

Gender concerns have been almost totally ignored within organizational analysis. This paper attempts to redress that ignorance. It has four related tasks: (1) to illustrate examples of gender-blind approaches to the study of organizations; (2), by way of a selective review of the organizations and culture debate, to argue for the utility of an organizational culture focus for an understanding of gender; (3), to root an organizational culture focus, along with gender concerns, within a feminist materialist method of analysis; (4), to explore, by way of a strategic application of Clegg's (1981) 'rule' focus, the potential of a feminist materialist analysis for understanding the relationship between gender and organizational culture.

'Gender, Crime and Victimisation' is a thought-provoking book exploring gender patterns in both offending and victimisation. It offers a thorough examination of how these patterns in society are variously established and represented, researched explained and responded to by policy makers and criminal justice agencies

In this book, Adrian Thatcher offers fresh theological arguments for expanding our understanding of gender. He begins by describing the various meanings of gender and depicts the relations between women and men as a pervasive human and global problem. Thatcher then critiques naive and harmful theological accounts of sexuality and gender as binary opposites or mistaken identities. Demonstrating that the gendered theologies of Hans Urs von Balthasar and Karl Barth, as well as the Vatican's "war on gender" rest on questionable binary models, he replaces these models with a human continuum that allows for sexual difference without assuming "opposite sexes" and normative sexualities. Grounded in core Christian doctrines, this continuum enables a full theological affirmation of LGBTIQ people. Thatcher also addresses the excesses of the male/female binary in secular culture and outlines a hermeneutic that delivers justice and acceptance instead of sexism and discrimination.

We study the impact of gender quotas on the acquisition of human capital. We assume that individuals' formation of human capital is influenced by the prospect of landing high-pay top positions, and that these positions are regulated by gender-specific quotas. In the absence of quotas, women consider their chances of getting top positions to be lower than men's. The lure of top positions induces even men of relatively low ability to engage in human capital formation, whereas women of relatively high ability do not expect to get top positions and do not therefore engage in human capital formation. Gender quotas discourage men who are less efficient in forming human capital, and encourage women who are more efficient in forming human capital. We provide a condition under which the net result of the institution of gender quotas is an increase in human capital in the economy as a whole.

Der Kulturbegriff und die Frage nach der tatsächlichen Verfasstheit von Kulturen sind Gegenstand dynamischer Diskussionen. Transnationale und transkulturelle Studien eröffnen dabei neue Forschungsperspektiven. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes greifen aktuelle kulturwissenschaftliche Theorieansätze auf und verbinden sie mit bildungsgeschichtlichen und genderhistorischen Fragestellungen. Thematische Schwerpunkte sind grenzüberschreitender Ideen- und Wissenstransfer, Erziehungs- und Bildungsarbeit in transkulturellen Räumen, Konstruktionen von »Eigenem«, »Fremdem« und Geschlecht sowie Transformationen kultureller und nationaler Identitäten.

This article argues that, given the centrality of gender for recent processes of autocratisation, it has become imperative to understand and theorise the conditions underpinning democratic resilience against opposition to gender equality. I conceptualise democratic resilience as the outcome of critical actors' efforts to represent marginalised groups in the face of threats to existing gender equality rights. The case study is Romania's 2020 'gender identity' bill, which would have prohibited discussion of 'gender' within the educational system but was eventually ruled unconstitutional. I identify two key causal mechanisms through which civil society organisations were able to shape this outcome: framing, which emphasised the bill's non-compliance with democratic norms and constitutional principles; and learning, which prompted a reflection by the two key institutional actors, that is, the president and the Constitutional Court, as to the importance of core democratic principles for politics and society in post-communist Romania.

Applying a gender perspective to cities reveals how spatial structure and social structure are mutually constitutive. This article reviews the ways cities have reflected and reinforced gender relations in the United States from the turn of the twentieth century to the present. First, I discuss ways in which women in industrial cities challenged the ideology of separate spheres. Next, I suggest that the post–World War II city was shaped by an era of high patriarchy similar to the architectural high modernism of the same era, and in the third section, I explore how that urban structure limited women's opportunities outside the home. In the fourth part, I examine changes in the concept of gender as it expanded beyond masculine and feminine categories to include lesbians, gays, and transgender individuals. The article ends with a review of how women's and gay rights movements, gentrification, and planning practices have shaped a more gender-neutral contemporary metropolis.