ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces feminist perspectives on organizational theory and deals with suggestions for ways of updating feminist approaches through the use of queer theory. In addition to feminist organizational theories, female-style leadership, also called connective or relational is discussed. This leadership style better fits the interrelated and global environment of the 21st century in which US higher education resides. "The feminist project was to create nonhierarchical egalitarian organizations that would demonstrate the possibilities of nonpatriarchal ways of working". "The focus of liberal feminism is on individual women and men getting equal opportunities to develop themselves as they choose and to engage in free competition for social rewards". Liberal feminist theorists have been criticized for their elitist emphasis on managers and professionals at the expense of the working class. Socialist feminism steps beyond liberal feminism with an analysis of intersectionality, or the ways that race and class, in addition to gender, create unequal systems.
