..., geography and intersectional identities (e.g. class, sexuality, disability) remain underexplored. Implications: pursue multisite, longitudinal and mixed-methods designs; develop comparative cross-sector and international studies; integrate administrative/ HR data on hiring and evaluation; assess EDI...

...Ayesha Bano; Sadia Nadeem Purpose This study aims to explore the factors that build positive leadership identities in women and reduce woman-leader identity conflict in societies with low gender equality. In doing so, it responds to calls to examine the role of “context” for women aspiring...

...Sakina Dixon; Jera Elizondo Niewoehner-Green; Stacy Smulowitz; Deborah N. Smith; Amy Rutstein-Riley; Trenae M. Thomas Purpose This scoping review aims to examine peer-reviewed literature related to girls’ (age 0–18) and young women’s (age 19–30) leader identity development. Design/methodology...

... into the labor market were career self-efficacy, the intersection of identity (women and criminal history), self-perceptions of prison identity, stigma disclosure and social support for employment. Research limitations/implications As the management literature expands to include more diverse and marginalized...

...Emilia Fernandes; Silvana Mota-Ribeiro Purpose This exploratory study aims to compare how businesswomen with different initial bounds to their businesses resort to gender discourses to construct a shared business identity in group interaction. Design/methodology/approach The study...

... implications – This paper implies that architectural, institutional and personal artifacts play an important role in defining women’s workplace identity. Social implications – Women in academia identify themselves as “outsiders” in the workplace because of the symbolic meaning they attribute...

...Sandra Corlett; Sharon Mavin Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the Special Issue developed from a joint research seminar of the Gender in Management and Identity Special Interest Groups of the British Academy of Management, entitled “Exploring the Intersectionality of Gender...

...Leire Gartzia; Marloes van Engen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to further understanding concerning sex differences in leadership styles and to examine the mediating role of gender identity traits in these differences. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on previous research...

... identity, an issue which cuts across the different theoretical approaches discussed up to this point in the book. This chapter provides a useful overview of traditional social psychological and sociolinguistic perspectives on the relationship between language, discourse and identity (which are based...