Women's Voices in Management in Different Cultural Settings

This proposal is to develop the issue of gender equality through contributions to a specific table in the Roundtable about “Sociology of the Future: Braiding Theory-Making and Policy/Practice Change”

Our own presentation for that table would explore women's voices in management in different cultural settings – contexts emphasizing and materializing gender equality such as in the Nordic countries and in other settings less committed to gender equality such as the Mediterranean and the more traditional societies. We attempted to extend the knowledge base on the relationship between gender and top management, entrepreneurship and leadership in the complex socio-political and culturally diverse societies.  Due to the combined scholarly and pragmatic orientation, it aims to derive insights amenable to implementation into economic and educational policies; namely endeavours to enhance the research-practice interface, making the knowledge obtained from research usable - be converted to operations, in particular policy recommendations and training activities and point at potential partnerships among international forums, national and local governments and NGOs engaged in gender equality issues.

Bibliography: Helena Desivilya Syna and Carmen Eugenia Costea (eds): Women's Voices in Management: identifying innovative and responsible solutions, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 (forthcoming).

Mino Vianello and Mary Hawkesworth (eds.): Gender and Power: Toward a Just Democratic Future, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 (forthcoming).