The publications archive of the Center for Gender in Organizations (CGO) reflect the breadth and depth of our affiliates’ research interests, both practitioner-oriented and academic.
This body of work contributes to the understanding and cultivation of inclusive organizations, and enriches the conversation around gender and diversity issues. Our publications include:
- CGO Commentaries
- CGO Insights are short briefing notes on topics promoting organizational effectiveness through improved gender equity and diversity
- CGO Working Papers disseminate trends and new developments in research, theory, and practice related to gender equity, diversity and organizational effectiveness
- Books
All CGO publications were authored and edited by our faculty affiliates from Simmons University and other organizations between 1998-2020.
- Diversity, Intersectionality and Gender Complexities/Simultaneity
- Dreaming Big: Examining the Career Aspirations of Girls of Color
CGO Insights #40, 2015 - Career Progression in Academic Medicine: Perspectives from Junior Faculty Women of Color
CGO Insights #39, 2014 - Doing Diversity and Inclusion Differently: Listening to and Learning from Emirati Women Leaders
CGO Insights #38, 2014 - “I think it’s a cultural thing and a woman thing:” Cultural Scripts in Latinas’ Careers
CGO Insights #30, 2010 - The Whitewash Dilemma Revisited: White Women as Catalysts for Engendering Diverse Leadership in Organizations
CGO Insights #26, 2008 - “Tired of Choosing”: Working with the Simultaneity of Race, Gender, and Class in Organizations
CGO Insights #24, 2006 - Women in Organizations: Why Our Differences Matter and What to Do About It
CGO Commentaries #5, 2005 - Releasing the Double Bind of Visibility for Minorities in the Workplace
CGO Commentaries #4, 2004 - Beyond Diversity: Working Across Differences for Organizational Change
CGO Commentaries #3, 2004 - How Do I Talk to You, My White Sister?
CGO Commentaries #2, 2004 - Simultaneity and the Limits of Sisterhood in One Women’s Membership Organization
CGO Working Paper #18, 2004 - Working Across Differences: Diversity Practices for Organizational Change
CGO Insights #17, 2003 - Viewing Dyads in Triadic Terms: Toward a Conceptualization of the In/Visible Third in Relationships Across Difference
CGO Working Paper #16, 2003 - Asking the Question: Uncovering the Assumptions that Undermine Conversations Across Race
CGO Insights #14, 2002 - Complicating Gender: The Simultaneity of Race, Gender, and Class in Organization Change(ing)
CGO Working Paper #14, 2001 - Working with Diversity: A Focus on Global Organizations
CGO Working Paper, #11, 2000 - Cultural Diversity at Work: The Moderating Effects of Work Group Perspectives on Diversit
CGO Working Paper #10, 2000 - Gender, Race, and Class Dynamics in Post-Apartheid South Africa
CGO Working Paper #9, 2000 - Disappearing Dynamics of Women of Color
CGO Working Paper #4, 1999
- Dreaming Big: Examining the Career Aspirations of Girls of Color
- Gendered Nature of Work & Organizations
- Accounting for the Glass Ceiling: The Path to Top Leadership
CGO Insights #43, 2018 - Professional Women and Confidence: A New Understanding of the ‘Gap’
CGO Insights #42, 2017 - Confronting Contradictions: Exploring the Tensions of Women as Breadwinners
CGO Insights, Briefing Note Number 36, 2013 - Dreaming Big: What’s Gender Got to Do with It? The Impact of Gender Stereotypes on Career Aspirations of Middle Schoolers
CGO Insights # 35, 2012 - Women Working Together: Understanding Women’s Relationships at Work
CGO Insights #33, 2011 - Optioning In versus “Opting Out”: Women Using Flexible Work Arrangements for Career Success
CGO Insights #25, 2007 - Women in Organizations: Why Our Differences Matter and What to Do About It
CGO Commentaries #5, 2005 - Enhancing Working Across Differences with the Problematic Moment Approach
CGO Insights #19, 2003 - The Equity Imperative: Reaching Effectiveness Through the Dual Agenda
CGO Insights #18, 2003 - Reader in Gender, Work, and Organization. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2003
- Invisible Work: The Disappearing of Relational Practice at Work
CGO Insights #8, 2001 - Tempered Radicals: How People Use Difference to Inspire Change at Work, 2001
- Disappearing Acts: Gender, Power and Relational Practice at Work, 2001
- Tempered Radicalism Revisited: Black and White Women Making Sense of Black Women’s Enactments and White Women’s Silences
CGO Working Paper #13, 2001 - Beyond Work-Family Balance: Advancing Gender Equity and Workplace Performance, 2001
- Class and Gender in Organizations
CGO Insights #7, 2000. - Theories of Gender in Organizations: A New Approach to Organizational Analysis and Change
CGO Working Paper #8, 2000 - Tempered Radicalism: Changing the Workplace from Within
CGO Insights #6, 1999 - A Radical Perspective on Power, Gender and Organizational Change
CGO Insights #5, 1999 - Integrating Gender into a Broader Diversity Lens in Organizational Diagnosis and Intervention
CGO Insights #4, 1999 - Feminist Critiques of Research on Gender in Organizations
CGO Working Paper #6, 1999 - Revisiting Class: Lessons from Theorizing Race and Gender in Organizations
CGO Working Paper #5, 1999 - Looking Below the Surface: The Gendered Nature of Organizations
CGO Insights #2, 1998 - Making Change: A Framework for Promoting Gender Equity in Organizations
CGO Insights #1, 1998
- Accounting for the Glass Ceiling: The Path to Top Leadership
- Men as Allies
- Mentoring, Networking and Negotiating
- Women’s Mentoring Experiences in the #MeToo Era
CGO Insights #46, 2020 - Mentoring Diverse Leaders: Creating Change for People, Processes, and Paradigms, 2017
- Women, Negotiations, and Career Advancement Report from a Survey at the 2013 Simmons Leadership Conference
CGO Insights #37, 2014 - Panacea or Placebo: Are Women’s Networks Working for Women?
CGO Insights #34, 2012 - Her Place at the Table: A Woman’s Guide to Negotiating Five Key Challenges to Leadership Success, 2010
- It Pays to Ask: Negotiating Conditions for Leadership Success
CGO Insights #23, 2006 - Critical Trends and Shifts in the Mentoring Experiences of Professional Women
CGO Insights #15, 2003 - Everyday Negotiation: Navigating the Hidden Agendas in Bargaining, 2003
- Negotiation Through a Gender Lens
CGO Working Paper #15, 2002 - Mentoring Relationships Through the Lens of Race and Gender
CGO Insights #10, 2001 - Rethinking Negotiation: Feminist Views of Communication and Exchange
CGO Working Paper #7, 2000 - The Shadow Negotiation: How Women Can Master the Hidden Agendas that Determine Bargaining Success, 2000
- Gender and the Shadow Negotiation
CGO Insights #3, 1998
- Women’s Mentoring Experiences in the #MeToo Era
- Organizational Cultures, Change & Strategies
- Women’s Leadership Programs: What is Working Well Now?
CGO Insights #44, 2018 - The Reality of Working with Millennials, 2016
- Sustaining Employee Engagement Through the Lens of Appreciative Inquiry & Relational Practice
CGO Commentaries, No. 6, 2013 - Using Corporate Social Responsibility to Motivate and Retain Female Employees
CGO Insights #31, 2012 - Building Constituencies for Culture Change in Organizations by Linking Education and Intervention
CGO Insights #16, 2003 - Gender and “Virtual Work”: How New Technologies Influence Work Practices and Gender Equity
CGO Insights #12, 2002 - When Less Is More: Exploring the Relationship Between Employee Workload and Innovation Potential
CGO Insights #11, 2002 - The Politics and Practice of Institutionalizing Gender Equity in a Post-Apartheid South Africa
CGO Working Paper #12, 2001 - Engendering Organizational Change: A Case Study of Strengthening Gender-equity and Organizational Effectiveness in an International Agricultural Research Institute
CGO Working Paper #3, 1999 - Relational Practice: An Emerging Stream of Theorizing and its Significance
CGO Working Paper #2, 1999 - Waiting for Outcomes: Anchoring Gender Equity and Organizational Change in Cultural Assumptions
CGO Working Paper, No.1, 1999
- Women’s Leadership Programs: What is Working Well Now?
- Women Leaders and Entrepreneurs
- Accounting for the Glass Ceiling: The Path to Top Leadership
CGO Insights #43, 2018 - Throwing Like a Girl: How Traits for Women Business Leaders Are Shifting in 2015
CGO Insights #41, 2015 - Closing the Women’s Leadership Gap: Who Can Help?
CGO Insights #32, 2011 - Strategizing for Success: Women Entrepreneurs Accessing Venture Capital
CGO Insights #29, 2009 - Transformational Learning in Women’s Leadership Development Training
CGO Working Paper, No. 22, 2009 - Risky Business: Busting the Myth of Women as Risk Averse
CGO Insights, Briefing Note Number 28, 2009 - Paths to Leadership: Women’s Experiences with and Aspirations for Board Service
CGO Insights #27, 2008 - Personal and Organizational Success Factors of Women Small and Medium Enterprises (SMES) in Russia
CGO Working Paper, No. 21, 2007 - The Entrepreneurship Gender Gap in Global Perspective: Implications for Effective Policymaking to Support Female Entrepreneurship
CGO Insights, Briefing Note Number 22, 2005 - Context for the Legitimacy of Women Entrepreneurs: The Role of Expert Capital
CGO Working Paper #19, 2005 - Women Entrepreneurs on the Forefront of Continual Growth: Procuring and Leveraging Capital for Sustainable Businesses
CGO Insights, Briefing Note Number 21, 2005 - Women Pursuing Leadership and Power: Challenging the Myth of the ‘Opt Out Revolution’
CGO Insights, Briefing Note Number 20, 2005 - Toward a New Model of Intentions: The Complexity of Gender, Cognitive Style, Culture, Social Norms, and Intensity on the Pathway to Entrepreneurship
CGO Working Paper, No. 20, 2005 - Rethinking Management: What’s Gender Got to Do With It?
CGO Commentaries, No. 1, 2004 - The Paradox of Post Heroic Leadership: Gender Matters
CGO Working Paper #17, 2003 - The Greatly Exaggerated Demise of Heroic Leadership: Gender, Power, and the Myth of the Female Advantage
CGO Insights #13, 2002 - Women as Leaders: The Paradox of Success
CGO Insights #9, 2001
- Accounting for the Glass Ceiling: The Path to Top Leadership