2022
DOI: 10.1111/gwao.12914
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A typology of sexism in contemporary business schools: Belligerent, benevolent, ambivalent, and oblivious sexism

Abstract: The legitimacy of business schools is based on rankings, revenues, branding, and opportunities to support staff and students "to make a difference in the world". Yet sexism in business schools is endemic. Drawing on Acker's inequality regimes framework and a thematic analysis of reports in Poets&Quants, EFMD's Global Focus and AACSB International's BizEd/AACSB Insights over a decade, this study explores how business schools are dealing (or not) with sexism. We propose a typology of four categories of sexism in… Show more

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“…The struggle of women academics to reach and sustain themselves in the higher levels of management or leadership reflects the gendered order of academia rather than any general 'fault' of women themselves. The onus remains on women aspiring to leadership positions to rely on their personal resources to overcome issues such as burnout, or cultural sexism (Yarrow & Davies, 2022), rather than through systemic institutional or sectoral change. Concepts such as the 'glass cliff' (Ryan & Haslam, 2005) or the newly coined metaphor of the 'glass cash cow' (Yarrow & Davies, 2022) to reflect the precarity of women in leadership in business schools, resonate with my experience of the inevitability of potential 'failure'.…”
Section: Haynes Resultant Burnoutmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The struggle of women academics to reach and sustain themselves in the higher levels of management or leadership reflects the gendered order of academia rather than any general 'fault' of women themselves. The onus remains on women aspiring to leadership positions to rely on their personal resources to overcome issues such as burnout, or cultural sexism (Yarrow & Davies, 2022), rather than through systemic institutional or sectoral change. Concepts such as the 'glass cliff' (Ryan & Haslam, 2005) or the newly coined metaphor of the 'glass cash cow' (Yarrow & Davies, 2022) to reflect the precarity of women in leadership in business schools, resonate with my experience of the inevitability of potential 'failure'.…”
Section: Haynes Resultant Burnoutmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Illustrative of this point, and a feminist approach to leadership, was the fact that I volunteered to be the lead Executive Board member on a pan-university careers project which aimed to address inequalities in career pathways and promotions processes in relation to research and teaching. The project resonated with my interests in women's careers and was underpinned, for me, though not the university, by a conviction that academic careers are gendered (Angervall & Beach, 2020) and sexism is pervasive (Pérezts & Mandalaki, 2023;Yarrow & Davies, 2022).…”
Section: Resistance Through Feminist Activismmentioning
confidence: 98%
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“…This appears to be written unashamedly by the journalist as they report views of anonymous Conservative MPs. There is no attempt to hide the explicit belligerent sexism, characterizing overt antagonistic, hostile, and aggressive behaviors in a gendered power conflict (Yarrow & Davies, 2022). However, the textual description of how Angela Rayner performs in the House of Commons is not supported by the images.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%