Hegemonic masculinity or masculine domination: Toward a comprehensive social theory of gender

Raghunandan Reddy is PhD Candidate in Sociology at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. His research interests include gendering of organizations, organizational masculinities and diversity & inclusion management at workplaces. He has 20 years of prior professional experience in Information Technology industry in the areas of program management, process management, process consulting and quality management. He was engaged in building organizational capabilities in delivering superior outcomes in productivity, employee satisfaction and customer satisfaction, as a process and quality professional, using maturity models and process improvement methodologies. He also executed large scale process consulting assignments in multicultural work environments.

Arun Kumar Sharma is Professor of Sociology at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He teaches courses in research methods, statistical inference, population, sociology of health and sociological theories. He has been working in different areas of sociology for more than 34 years. His research interests include evaluation of rural development programs, situation analysis of HIV/AIDS, mapping of high risk groups and health. Dr Sharma is a member of several professional associations including International Union of Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), Indian Association for the Study of Population (IASP), and Indian Society of Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation (ISMMACS).

Munmun Jha is Professor of Sociology at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He received a PhD Degree from Glasgow University, where he was a Commonwealth Scholar. His main areas of teaching and research are: human rights movements and issues, social gerontology, disability studies and design anthropology. His publications include The Lambent Moon, a collection of poems, and a volume titled “Development and human rights.” He has been Visiting Professor at the Universite Catholoique de Louvain, Belgium, and Charles Wallace Fellow at Queen’s University, Belfast. He received Human Rights Millennium Award from the Indian Institute of Human Rights, New Delhi.