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The original executive
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....
Shining a light on corporate masculinity
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,...
We can choose to not be chimps
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...
Annual reports and granting corporations their ‘social licence to operate’
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...
Justice for Shiv: Women and family business succession
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...
Postfeminism and the construction of Australia’s ‘Corporate Woman’
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) here....
Institutions, managerial capitalism, and the corporate elite
I am so relieved. This one was my white whale. For some good reasons (and some unnecessary reasons), this article spent a long time in revisions. The peer review process is transformational most of the time. Having several silent co-authors, who...
Ita Buttrose, Dulcie Boling, and Nene King: the construction of ‘idealised feminine leadership’ in the Australian media, 1972-1999
This blog post was written by Dr Lauren Samuelsson who, amongst other fabulous things, was employed as a research assistant on my ARC DECRA project in the first half of 2023. The brief: to look at women in corporate leadership, in depth, in a...
I’m tired; or, the end of 2023
I am very tired! Like a 'cry in your cup of tea after a relatively minor outlook problem' tired. Writing on the second last day of the working year, I am frustrated by how much there is left to do, but with no desire to do any of it. It's been a...
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Senior Lecturer at UTS Business School
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