Women and careers in engineering: management changes in the work organization

Considers how organizational change and the restructuring of management in the organization are affecting the career opportunities of women professional engineers. Using a case study industrial organization, considers how management itself is changing and being changed. Suggests, therefore, that optimistic statements about increasing numbers of women in managerial posts in organizations need closer examination. The concept of management itself must be rendered problematic and changes in managerial systems need to be analysed. Only then will it be possible to explore how gender, career, management and organization interact and produce new as well as old forms of occupational segregation.