Joan Marques is Dean of the School of Business and Professor of Management at Woodbury University, USA. Her research interests pertain to Awakened Leadership, Buddhist Psychology in Management, and Workplace Spirituality. She has written more than 150 scholarly articles and has (co)-authored more than 30 books

A timely work that reviews the phenomenon of gender and its many manifestations of equality. Well-suited for increasing awareness and justice in academic and professional environments, this collective work addresses long-standing and ongoing social problems such as discrimination, stereotyping, prejudice, as well as a plethora of societal and industry influences that sustain the trend of gender imbalance. Aiming to span a broad scope in time, backgrounds and implementation, this book presents a wide variety of topics, including a historical overview, contemporary gender-based Issues, gender approaches across the disciplines, and cultural influences. The reader is guaranteed to confront existing biases when digesting topics related to gender communication differences, stereotypes, tensions and resistances, assigned social roles, transgenderism, non-binary identities, tension fields between equality and equity, relational aggression, and more. A critical underlying aim of this bookis to contribute constructively and progressively to the dialogue on the definition of gender, thus addressing an ongoing challenge for policy makers, organizational leaders, and scholars.

Chapter 1. History of Empowerment: How Far Have We Come? - Chapter 2. Patriarchy, Religion, and Society.- Chapter 3. Gender-Based Inequality in the Modern American Society.- Chapter 4. Gender and Communication: Are There Decisive Differences? - Chapter 5. The Conundrum of Gender Stereotypes.- Chapter 6. Masculinity at Work.- Chapter 7. Gender Stereotypes: The Profiling of Women in Marketing.- Chapter 8. Deciding to be Authentic: Transgender Employees and Their Decision to Be Out at Work.- Chapter 9. Gender Diversity, Unconscious Bias, and Leadership for Organizational and Planetary Health, etc.