Man-Made: Why So Few Women Are in Positions of Power

• Published date: 20 June 2016
• Date: 20 June 2016
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/EDI-01-2016-0002
• Pages: 385-388
• Author: Cordula Barzantny

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About the reviewer

Elisabeth K. Kelan was a Lecturer in the Department of Management at King’s College London at

the time this book review was submitted (19 October 2010). The review reflects the state of

research in 2010. Elisabeth K. Kelan is currently Professor of Leadership and Director of the

Global Centre for Gender and Leadership at Cranfield University Elisabeth K. Kelan can be

contacted at: elisabeth.kelan@kcl.ac.uk

Man-Made: Why So Few Women Are in Positions of Power

Edited by Eva Tutchell and John Edmonds

Gower

Surrey and Burlington, VT

2015

304pp.

£45.00/$80,

ISBN (hbk) 978-1-4724-3212-4

ISBN (ebk-PDF) 978-1-4724-3213-1

ISBN (ebk-ePUB) 978-1-4724-3214-8

Keywords Leadership, Feminism, Equality, Sex discrimination,

Gender issues, Male domination, Qualitative gender studies

Review DOI 10.1108/EDI-01-2016-0002

This title is a verytimely one stating the history and present of working womenin Great

Britain. Eva Tutchell and John Edmonds offer a comprehensive overview of the

challenges women in the UK have faced and are facing still today in society and the

workplace.It addresses particularly the issuesfor those women who show ambitions and

who want to be successful in a world mainly designed and organised by men. The

authors, a man and a woman, have interviewed more than 100 successful women and a

handful of men, both in positions of power in the UK. The authors offer the account of

women in Great Britain who succeeded in organisations and system that were initially

created and preserved for the convenience of men (man-made!). Those women decided

how they can best obtain success to move up in the organisation to a position of power.

Power is about equality. More women want to decide how they can best contribute to

organisations and systems in order to fit in, having a career and go to the top, some are

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