This book offers a sampling of the many ways that gender affects experience. Whether the context is domestic or international, a court-room or a business or a clinic, gender matters. It influences ideas' and expectations, and they shape behavior and laws. Across settings, the experiences of women are shaped by patterns of power and dominance, cultural expectations, economic disparities, and internalized models of social relationships that arc defined by gender. The experiences of women are also shaped by absence and invisibility: what does not get noticed, discussed, valued, or included. This includes invisibility in the workplace. As Fletcher (1999) demonstrates, the relational work that women are expected to do does not quite make it into the job evaluation.
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