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Women in Power: Undoing or Redoing the Gendered Organization?

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A growing literature examines the organizational factors that promote women’s access to
positions of organizational power. Fewer studies, however, explore the implications of
women in leadership positions for the opportunities and experiences of subordinates. Do women leaders serve to undo the gendered organization? In other words, is women’s
greater representation in leadership positions associated with less gender segregation at
lower organizational levels? We explore this question by drawing on Cohen and Huffman’s
(2007) conceptual framework of women leaders as either “change agents” or “cogs in the
machine” and analyze a unique multilevel data set of workplaces nested within Fortune
1000 firms. Our findings generally support the “agents of change” perspective. Women’s representation among corporate boards of directors, corporate executives, and workplace
managers is associated with less workplace gender segregation. Hence, it appears that
women’s access to organizational power helps to undo the gendered organization.

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Gender & Society

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Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications., 2016

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English

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Volume 30, Issue 1, February 2016, pp. 109–135

Subject(s)

Management
Leadership
Workplace
gendered organization
Segregation

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