Martha Ellen Reeves is a professor in the Markets and Management Studies Program at Duke and adjunct faculty member in the Women's Studies Program at Duke University, USA.[1] Reeves studied at the University of Montana (B.A. 1973), Truman State University (M.A. 1976) in English literature and Keele University, (Ph.D. 1998), for industrial relations and human resources management.[2]
Reeves is the author of Women in Business: Theory, Case Studies and Legal Challenges (Routledge, 2010, second edition, 2016), Suppressed, Forced Out and Fired: How Successful Women Lose their Jobs (Quorum, 2000), Evaluation of Training (Industrial Society, U.K., 1993) and co-author of articles on business, including "Queens of the Hill: Creative Destruction and the Emergence of Executive Leadership of Women" (with S. A. Furst), Leadership Quarterly (2008, pp. 372–384), and, "Sector, size, stability, and scandal: Explaining the presence of female executives in Fortune 500 firms" (with David Brady, Katelin Isaacs, Rebekah Burroway, Megan Reynolds), Gender in Management: An International Journal, 2011, pp. 84–105.