"Although some progress has been made in recent decades in getting women into top positions in government, business …, and education, there are persisting challenges with efforts to improve opportunities for women in leadership. This …'s foremost scholars on women and leadership, exposing problems and offering both theoretical and practical solutions on …

This book documents the progress that managerial and professional women have made in advancing their careers, and the … challenges and opportunities that remain. In the context of increasing numbers of women entering the workplace and indeed … pursuing professional and managerial careers, it examines why so few women occupy the top positions in corporations …

'This very impressive Handbook takes established research topics about women in management and treats them in fresh and … stimulate high quality research on women's experiences in work organizations. I recommend it highly.' - Jean M. Bartunek, Boston … facing women in business and management, the specific career and work-life issues of women in these fields, organizational …

Ruoh-Man (Terry) Yan -- 6. Barriers to academic entrepreneurship among women : a review of the constituent literatures … / Marla Parker, Christopher S. Hayter, Lauren Lynch, and Rasheeda Mohammed -- 7. Elucidating the process : why women patent …. Others explore the corruption in business practices, which is less for women entrepreneurs than their male counterparts, and …

Handbook provides a comprehensive review of issues faced by women and gender minorities in technology fields. It is global in …

Women and Girls in Sub-Saharan Africa', Feminist Economics, 14 (4), October, 67-86 -- Nancy Folbre (1994), 'Children as …', Feminist Economics, 6 (1), March, 125-34 -- Cristina Carrasco and Arantxa Rodríguez (2000), 'Women, Families, and Work in Spain …), 'Working Time As Gendered Time', Feminist Economics, 6 (1), March, 59-76 -- Maria Sagrario Floro (1995), 'Women's Well …

, discrimination, and choice in rationalizing women's exclusion from fully participating in the process of knowledge production, as … well as examining institutional impediments. Contextualizing arguments against women's inclusion and including contemporary … universal difficulties that women encounter as they seek to participate fully in the process of knowledge production …