Despite the inroads made by women in the professions, the glass ceiling remains a persistent barrier to their career progression. Using a range of interactional sociolinguistic data this publication investigates the crucial role that gendered discourses play in perpetuating workplace gender inequalities.
List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Transcription Conventions The Professional Workplace as a Research Site Gender Discourses: A Critical Sociolinguistic Approach Collecting Workplace Data Analysing Workplace Interaction The Retail Company The Manufacturing Company Gendered Work: Ideologies and Stereotypes in Action Towards the Future: Breaking the Stereotypes of Gendered work References Appendix Index
