by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Jul 24, 2026 | updates
Corporate leadership is still a man’s world. Representation has improved, but men still dominate senior roles, women are often sidelined in ‘feminine’ leadership work, and both men and women are confined by a narrow range of acceptable behaviours. Indeed, the image of...
by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Oct 2, 2025 | updates
I spend a lot of my time thinking about ‘femininity’. My work on the first history of women in corporate leadership requires that I discuss the assumed, and actual, wants and needs of corporate women. I examine the way women are expected to act, how they...
by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Mar 17, 2025 | updates
If you ever need a non-fiction bestseller, write a book on women in leadership. Every ambitious woman in middle and senior management will buy it, as will well-meaning men. The launch will be packed by women and men wanting to be seen to support the cause of...
by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Jan 14, 2025 | updates
In 2021, at the start of Sydney’s very long, very intense covid-19 lockdown, I proposed a side project to my research assistant, Chris, working in Canberra. The ACT was not in lockdown yet, and so Chris had access to all of the fabulous cultural institutions...
by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Oct 11, 2024 | updates
Today is publication day for my article, ‘A life in the shadows’: Australian women and family business succession, 1910–2018. I am not ashamed to admit that I was inspired to look into this primarily due to becoming a wee bit obsessed with HBO’s Succession in...
by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Aug 16, 2024 | updates
Today is a very exciting day! It’s publication day for my article in Gender, Work & Organisation entitled “Bossyboots”: Postfeminism and the construction of Australia’s ‘Corporate Woman’. You can find it open access (with thanks to UTS)...
