Gender, Occupation, and Promotion to Management in the Nonprofit Sector:The critical case of Médecins sans Frontières Holland

Although one can assume the work values within nonprofit organizations promote gender equality in promotion decisions, there is preliminary evidence that in the nonprofit sector women are underrepresented in higher management positions. Whereas the mechanisms resulting in underrepresentation of women in management have been studied extensively in for-profit organizations, little is known about these mechanisms in nonprofit organizations. Is gender in nonprofit organizationseven given the underlying values of these organizationsan impediment to attaining a management position? This article pres... Mehr ...