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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.
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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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Book Title: Black Women in Management
Book Subtitle: Paid Work and Family Formations
Authors: Diane Chilangwa Farmer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137335432
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-33542-5Published: 20 November 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-46312-1Published: 20 November 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-33543-2Published: 20 November 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 224
Topics: Ethnicity Studies, Business Ethics, Organization, Human Resource Management, Behavioral/Experimental Economics, Management