Abstract
Until relatively recently, gender diversity was not taken into consideration, and companies have not known how to take advantage of it. Women did not receive the same education as men and there was one simple reason for this: it was unquestioningly assumed that women were inferior to men and as a result did not need a man’s education to prepare them to be able to transform and change the world.
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de Anca, C., Vazquez, A. (2007). Gender and Management. In: Managing Diversity in the Global Organization. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230800885_3
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