Women at the intersection of business and government

Are they in places of power

Bibliographic Data

ID2155367
AuthorsDenise Benoit Scott (SUNY Geneseo, corresponding author)
Year1998
Volume18
Issue3
Pages333-363
Publication date1998-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociological Spectrum (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0273-2173 • E-ISSN: 1521-0707
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02732173.1998.9982201
OpenAlexW1987609011
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited25

This article examines whether women's increased involvement at the intersection of business and government translates to places of power. Drawing primarily from a series of in‐depth interviews and a mail survey, women's positions in the formal hierarchy and decision‐making structure of corporate‐government relations are analyzed. The context and character of women's networks with those in business and government are also explored. Women are disadvantaged relative to their male counterparts; they are significantly less likely to hold top decision‐making positions in corporate‐government affairs and earn significantly less than men. Moreover, they are on tracks, within government relations and the corporation, that tend not to lead to formal positions of power. Yet women occupy key places in the interface between business and government, through which they potentially derive power to transform their conditions

Business · Corporation · Disadvantaged · Geography · Hierarchy · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Engineering · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Mathematics · Finance