This issue of Women in Management Review is dedicated to a selection of papers that were presented at the ‘Gender and Management’ track at the British Academy of Management Conference (BAM), held at the Waterfront Hall, Belfast in association with Queens University Belfast and the University of Ulster, September 2006. Although the topics of these five papers are diverse, some recurrent themes are evident and there are areas of overlap. For example, the Gues Editor suggests that a common thread of the papers relates back to the expected role of women and men in society and traditional definitions of the characteristics of being male or female, and how these perpetuate the traditional thinking, the way things are done and our notions of our expectations of women and men in society.