Managing Gender & Diversity – Assumptions, Connections and Challenges for theory development

Abstract

My intention is to invite gender studies to relate their elaborated theoretical corpus about discrimination and dominance to diversity issues. As Yvonne Benschop (2006) states ``the more recent studies on workplace diversity have benefited enormously from the insights and conceptualizations of power processes, material inequalities and discursive practices developed in this field …the contribution to the diversity at work discussion is manifold…'' (Benschop 2006: 291). First, because the topic of heterogeneity is too interesting, to solely leave it to the performativity business discourses, and second, it is always interesting to observe and comment an emerging field of change and professionalization.