Genderwashing is the process whereby organizational rhetoric differs from the lived experiences of workers, creating the myth of gender equity in the workplace. Genderwashing in Leadership considers how the process of genderwashing highlights hidden biases in organizational policies and procedures, and patriarchal cultural practices.
International scholars from diverse areas such as leadership, organizational studies, sociology, and education explore how genderwashing occurs from various perspectives, including leadership, power and privilege, identity, and career recruitment and selection. Uncovering epistemological assumptions that underpin and sustain genderwashing practices, the ways in which genderwashing intersects with embodiment and intersectionality and how genderwashing policies and practices restrict womens advancement into leadership, the editors host a space for dialogue and debate.
The Transformative Women Leaders Series is published in collaboration between the International Leadership Association (ILA) and Emerald Publishing. Celebrating women leaders and the leadership styles they employ to achieve success, the books in this series highlight successful context-specific leadership approaches and the moral qualities of endurance.
Foreword. Kick Em When They're Up, Kick Em When They're Down: Exposing
Dirty Laundry in Leadership and Organization Studies; Laura L. Bierema
Introduction; Rita A. Gardiner, Wendy Fox-Kirk, Carole J. Elliott, and
Valerie Stead
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1. Feminist Thoughts Before Annual Leave; Emmanouela Mandalaki
Chapter
2. Genderwashing (or Genderbleaching) in UK Historic Universities: A
Veil for Gender-based Violence; Sharon Mavin
Chapter
3. When 'Small Talk' Becomes Meaningful: The Concept of Encounter in
Manager Employee Relationships; Maylon Hanold
Chapter
4. Business Schools, Accrediting Agencies and Gender: Washing or
Spinning?; Liza Howe-Walsh, Victoria Pagan, and Susan Kirk
Chapter
5. Affinity Groups in Higher Education: A Critical and Intersectional
Examination of Genderwashing; Paige Haber-Curran, Adrian L. Bitton, and
Natasha T. Turman
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6. Defensive Diversity Management as a Tool of Genderwashing in
Exclusive Talent Management; Gelaye Debebe
Chapter
7. Patriarchal Penalty: Genderwashing at Hockey Canada; Hayley Baker
and Jennifer Chisholm
Chapter
8. Genderwashing in Pakistani Higher Educational Institutions; Syeda
Tuba Javaid, Rita A. Gardiner, and Kasey Egan
Chapter
9. Rainbow Burning to Rainbow Washing: How (not) to Manage LGBT+
Inclusion; Mustafa F. Özbilgin and Cihat Erbil
Chapter
10. Genderwashing and militarization: women, war and social
progressiveness; Natalie Jester
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11. Genderwashing Meets Girl Power: The transnational politics of
corporate-NGO partnerships for girls education; Rosie Walters
Afterword; Gina Grandy
Rita A. Gardiner is Associate Professor, Critical Policy, Equity, and Leadership Studies, in the Faculty of Education, Western University, Canada.
Wendy Fox-Kirk is Visiting Lecturer at the Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK.
Carole J. Elliott is Professor of Organization Studies, and Associate Dean EDI & Development at Sheffield University Management School, UK.
Valerie Stead is Professor of Leadership, and Director of the LUMS Academy for Gender, Work and Leadership at Lancaster University Management School (LUMS), UK.