Black Women in Management: Paid Work and Family Formations - Paperback

by Diane Chilangwa Farmer (Author)

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.

Author Biography

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.