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    Feminine or feminist? Women's media leadership


    O'Brien, Anne (2017) Feminine or feminist? Women's media leadership. Feminist Media Studies, 17 (5). pp. 836-850. ISSN 1468-0777

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    Abstract

    This paper presents a small-scale qualitative case study of five women’s experiences of leadership roles in Irish media industries. Relational Leadership Theory is used to examine whether there is a gendered dimension to women’s leadership and to explore why women’s participation in leadership has not resulted in significant feminist gains or changes to media organisations. The article finds that: the women saw their leadership as relational and simultaneously as socially constructed in a gendered manner. Moreover, the women led organisational change towards greater gender equality in the norms of media work. However, while the women’s leadership was relational and feminine, it was not necessarily feminist; it did not aim to generate systemic changes within the gendering of the media as an institution. The changes that the women wrought incorporated women into a system of production that remained nonetheless masculinist.

    Item Type: Article
    Keywords: Relational Leadership; decision makers; media organisations; Ireland;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > School of English, Media & Theatre Studies > Media Studies
    Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute, MUSSI
    Item ID: 11722
    Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2017.1300593
    Depositing User: Anne O'Brien
    Date Deposited: 18 Nov 2019 11:47
    Journal or Publication Title: Feminist Media Studies
    Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
    Refereed: Yes
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    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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