Oxford Handbooks Online : The Oxford Handbook of Critical Management Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Critical Management Studies Alvesson, Mats, Professor of Business Administration, University of Lund, Sweden Bridgman, Todd, Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Willmott, Hugh, Research Professor in Organization Studies, Cardiff Business School Print publication date: 2009 (this edition) Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-923771-5 Published to Oxford Handbooks Online: September 2009
15 Gender and Diversity Other Ways to “Make a Difference” doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199237715.003.0015 Karen Lee Ashcraft Abstract: Introduction: The Politics of a Name – Ten Ways Gender Matters to Organization, Management, and Work – Beyond Gender and Diversity: How Else Might We “Make a Difference?” Keywords: diversity, gender, management,
Karen Lee Ashcraft is an associate professor at the University of Utah and a visiting professor at Lund University. Her research explores gender, race, and power relations in the contexts of occupational identity and organizational form. This work has been published in such forums as Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, and Communication Theory; and her book with Dennis Mumby, entitled Reworking Gender, examines the relationship between feminist and critical management studies. Her current research entails extensive qualitative study of the role of race and gender in the evolution of professional identity among commercial airline pilots.