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Black Women in Management

Paid Work and Family Formations

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  • © 2013

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  1. Diane Chilangwa Farmer
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Diane Chilangwa Farmer
    Pages 1-14

  3. Feminism, Intersectionality and Black Women’s Lives

    • Diane Chilangwa Farmer
    Pages 15-33

  4. Women in Professional and Managerial Occupations: An Overview

    • Diane Chilangwa Farmer
    Pages 34-59

  5. Feminist Research and Representing the Other

    • Diane Chilangwa Farmer
    Pages 60-79

  6. South African Employment Equity Policies: Success or Failure?

    • Diane Chilangwa Farmer
    Pages 80-112

  7. UK Employment Equity Policies and Their Transnational Recipients

    • Diane Chilangwa Farmer
    Pages 113-138

  8. Career Woman, Mother, Wife or Daughter: Untangling the Web and Finding a Balance

    • Diane Chilangwa Farmer
    Pages 139-160

  9. Where to From Here

    • Diane Chilangwa Farmer
    Pages 161-172

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 173-224
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Black Women in Management identifies some of the differences and/or similarities that exist between these women's career choices and progression and explores how they address socio-cultural and gendered expectations of domestic, social and caring commitments as career women living and working in two urban cities – one African, the other European.

About the author

Dr Diane Chilangwa Farmer is Research Associate at Kingston University Business School, UK, and Trustee for charity African Revival UK. She holds an MSc in Gender, Culture and Politics from Birkbeck University of London, UK, and a PhD in Gender and Work from the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Born in Zambia, Diane was educated and has resided in the Middle East, United States and Africa. Prior to moving to the UK, she worked for the Financial Times as their Business Representative for South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Her research interests include the impact of gender, race, ethnicity and class in an organizational environment, professional and managerial black African women, and examining the work and family lives of women in management.

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