Handbook of Gender and Work
Book Editor: Gary N. Powell

The definitive reference on gender and work!

The Handbook of Gender and Work provides a comprehensive overview and synthesis of the literature and knowledge about gender and work. It equips the reader with a solid understanding of where we stand on gender and work issues and what the next directions for research and assessment will be.

Under the skilled leadership of editor Gary N. Powell, an outstanding group of multidisciplinary and international researchers and scholars deliver their summary and analysis of current research and their views on how gender and work intersect along a variety of societal, economic, interpersonal, and organizational paradigms. Topics include:

• Sex and gender
• Gender, race, and ethnicity
• The changing nature of work
• The delivery of services
• Corporate masculinity
• Gender gap in earnings
• Sex segregation of occupations
• Interviewer biases
• Performance evaluations
• Work group relations
• Social influence and emergent leadership
• Managerial stereotypes and behavior
• Women as global leaders
• Sexual harassment
• Workplace romance
• Careers
• The glass ceiling
• Mentoring
• Women entrepreneurs
• Work and family
• Stress and work
• Affirmative action
• Diversity initiatives
• Methodological issues

The Handbook of Gender and Work will be an invaluable resource for students, scholars, and professionals interested in increasing their understanding of gender-related phenomena that occur in the workplace. Anyone seeking guidance for dealing with specific situations that arise as a result of the influence of gender, or in identifying useful directions for future research, will want to own a copy of this handbook!

About the Editor

Gary N. Powell is Professor of Management and Ackerman Scholar at the University of Connecticut. He has served as Chairperson of the Women in Management Division of the Academy of Management, on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Management, and as Past President and Fellow of the Eastern Academy of Management. He has also served on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Review and Academy of Management Executive.

He has won several awards, including one for innovation in education from the Committee on Equal Opportunity for Women of the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business. He has also won the University of Connecticut School of Business Administration’s Undergraduate Teaching Award and Graduate Teaching Award for his outstanding success in teaching. The University of Connecticut honored him with an Award for Promoting Multiculturalism. In addition, he is the author of two previous publications with Sage: Women and Men in Management and Gender and Diversity in the Workplace: Learning Activities and Exercises.

Contributors:

Nancy J. Adler, Alice O. Andrews, Kathryn M. Bartol, Susan H. Bosco, Lynn Bowes-Sperry, D. Anthony Butterfield, Linda L. Carli, Bennett Cherry, Cary L.Cooper, Elizabeth A. Cooper, Marilyn J. Davidson, Alice H. Eagly, Bernardo M. Ferdman, Sandra Fielden, Sharon Foley, Mary Lizabeth Gatta, Mary E. Graham, Laura M. Graves, Jeffrey H. Greenhaus, James P. Grinnell, Markus Groth, Barbara A. Gutek, Jerry A. Jacobs, Alison M. Konrad, Karen Korabik, Suzan Lewis, Frank Linnehan, Sharon A. Lobel, Mark Maier, Dorothy Perrin Moore, Saroj Parasuraman, Gary N. Powell, Belle Rose Ragins, Anne H. Reilly, Patricia A. Roos, Linda K. Stroh, Jasmine Tata, Pamela S. Tolbert

ISBN 0-7619-1355-6 hardcover
660 pages/1999
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