Gender, Media, and Organization: Challenging Mis(s)Representations of Women Leaders and Managers

ISBN-13: 9781681235325 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 276 str.

Carole Elliott; Valerie Stead; Sharon Mavin

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A volume in Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and PracticeSeries Editors: Susan R. Madsen, Faith Wambura Ngunjiri, and Karen A. LongmanGender, Media, and Organization: Challenging Mis(s)Representations of Women Leaders and Managers is the fourthvolume in the Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice series. This cross‐disciplinary series fromthe International Leadership Association draws from current research findings, development practices, pedagogy,and lived experience to deliver provocative thinking that enhances leadership knowledge and improvesleadership development of women around the world. This volume addresses the lack of critical attention inleadership research to how women leaders and professionals are represented in the media. The volume acts as acompanion piece to a Seminar Series, funded by the UKs Economic and Social Sciences Research Council (ESRC),to address this gap in the research. The lack of research interrogation of gendered media representations ofwomen leaders and professionals is a surprising omission given the wealth of evidence from stakeholders outsideacademia revealing that women, and women leaders, continue to be underrepresented across all forms of mediaoutlet. This volume contributes to social change, equality, and economic performance by raising consciousnessabout womens lack of representation in the media and challenges gendered mis(s)representations of womenprofessionals and leaders in the media through the presentation of a range of empirical investigations andmethodological approaches. The volume contributors use various theories and conceptualizations to problematizeand analyze womens limited representation in the media, and the gendered representations of womenprofessionals and leaders.Together, the volumes 14 chapters reflect the beginning of a rich, diverse, emergent strand of academic researchthat interrogates relationships between the media in its multiple forms and womens leadership. Illuminating thepositioning of women leaders and professionals as both complex and problematic, these chapters offer animportant agenda for management and organization scholars. They attest to the need to describe and make visiblewomens mis(s)representations in the media while drawing attention to the importance of situating these mis(s)representations in the broader social, economic, historical, cultural, and political context as a means to gain insightinto their development and evolution. As a rich and diverse site of research, examination of the media calls for abroad methodological repertoire. The chapters in this book draw from multiple sources and include, amongothers, the development of thematic analysis to illuminate stereotypes, the use of critical discourse analysis tounderstand professional womens experience, a rhetorical analysis of the covers of Time magazine, and aninterrogation of the power dynamics manifested in the medias practice of nicknaming women leaders.Gender, Media, and Organization is a first step in stimulating further research that poses critical questionsconcerning gendered and sexualized representations of women leaders in textual and visual forms, and considersthe medias influence on gender equality and social justice. The chapters offer fruitful avenues for future researchto continue the momentum of challenging gendered media representations of women leaders and professionals.