This paper is about management, primarily—where it's heading and where it
needs to be heading—and secondly, the place of women managers in those
two scenarios. Our perspective is that of two women currently engaged in research
and teaching in the management, rather than women's issues or Equal Employment
Opportunity area. We have filled out and tested our ideas with some discussions
with women we know in middle and upper-middle management positions. However,
we did not seek to undertake rigorous data collection and the opinions expressed
are our own. The paper was intended to be speculative rather than analytical.
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