Benevolent work has proven especially attractive for women. An outgrowth of this tradition, and the focus of this paper, is the recent development of the women's funds—philanthropic organizations that were created to empower women and girls. These new organizations represent a change in the role that women have played in philanthropy. Moreover, the structure of these funds provides insights into the role of gender in organizational analysis. The women's funds represent gendered bureaucracies in which the interests of philanthropic women mitigate the tendency toward bureaucratization.
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