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Doing Gender Well and Differently in Management 【Abstract】The purpose of this paper is to revisit theoretical positions on gender and the implications for gender in management by building upon current research on doing gender well and re-doing or undoing gender and argue that gender can be done well and differently through simultaneous, multiple enactments of femininity and masculinity. 【Key words】Doing gender differently；Gender with entrepreneurship；Management theory This paper focuses upon the implications of doing gender well and differently, for gender and management research and practice, drawing upon examples of leadership, entrepreneurship, female misogyny and Queen Bee. 1　Doing gender well and doing gender differently Doing gender not as something one possesses, rather as an ongoing accomplishment grounded in interaction with others. It is a complex process of interactional and micro political activities that result in what is perceived to be expressions of masculine or feminine “natures”. This means if an individual “looks” or “sounds” like a man, and then s/he is perceived to be a male and is expected to act appropriately for a man, that is, engage in negotiated masculine behaviors. 2　Implications for gender in entrepreneurship In parallel to leadership and management, “concepts of entrepreneurship and entrepreneur have been historically and culturally produced and reproduced on masculine terms.” Ahl argues that many of the words used to describe entrepreneur align with Bems index of masculinity. Moreover, she contends that some of Bems femininity words are direct opposites of entrepreneur and thus negative in nature as it relates to the notion of entrepreneur. 3　Queen bee and female misogyny There has been some recent research that provides encouraging insight into the possibility of shifting gender norms. We contend that women leaders’ display of more communal behaviors aligns with our conceptualization of doing gender well, while their display of agente