ABSTRACT

Through an examination of management textbooks, beginning in 1950 and continuing to 2012, the authors chart the socio-political and historical context upon which the management texts were written and tease out the ways that women have been socially constructed as a problem to be managed. The study explores how the problem with women arose and how it has been maintained in organizational settings. The study undertakes a feminist interrogation to understand the systematic ways that roles and identities for women have been structured to both describe women negatively, limit and exclude them, and why such structures are durable. Additionally, the article asserts that the subtle shift from women as problem (collective), to a woman manager (as individual, as exceptional) and women as either the same or different from men, serves to blind us to the possibility of female governance.

摘要

通过对管理教科书的研究（始于1950年并持续到2012年），作者绘制了管理文本的社会政治和历史背景，并提出了解决妇女社会问题的方法。该研究探讨了女性问题的产生方式以及在组织机构中如何解决该问题。该研究进行了女权主义的审讯，以了解女性角色和身份结构化的系统方式，既可以负面描述女性，又可以限制和排斥女性，为什么这种结构可以持久。此外，文章称，从女性的微妙转变为问题（集体），对一个女人Manager（如个人作为例外），并作为女性无论是相同的或与男性不同，会使我们对女性统治的可能性视而不见。