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parents in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and demonstrates gender differences in parent and student expectations about the … United Arab Emirates (UAE) and demonstrates gender differences between parent and student perceptions. Findings In general … college education for both men and women and gender equality. Research limitations/implications Six higher education …
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gathering information and increasing our knowledge on gender equality at organizational level. Design …/methodology/approach – Based on Swedish gender policy and information available in public registers, six variables were chosen. For each variable …, a gender gap was calculated as the ratio between the sexes, with the larger figure always treated as numerator. The …
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Purpose – Relatively little research has examined whether pay dispersion influences men's and women's earnings differently. The purpose of this paper is to fill this research gap. Design/methodology/approach – The authors used survey design and multiple regressions to analyze a sample of 650...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the ways in which gender is “done” in executive search. The authors … top management is reinforced. Findings – The ways in which gender is “done” and women are excluded from top management are … ways in which gender plays a role in professional services in general and in practices of executive search in particular …
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Purpose This paper focuses on visual representation of women leaders and how women leaders’ bodies and sexualities are rendered visible in particular ways. Design/methodology/approach The arguments are based on a reading of the Danish television drama series, Borgen . The authors interpret the...
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diversity in thinking about gender in management and welcomes papers from all academic disciplines which can contribute to …
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Purpose – Retailing as a sector employs many women and serves a female‐dominated customer base. It also employs proportionately more women in management positions than in other occupational sectors. However, at senior levels, the proportion of women to men diminishes. This paper aims to...
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Purpose – The study sets out to examine how male and female managers in general and male and female municipal executives in particular are evaluated by the members of the organisation. Design/methodology/approach – The study presented used the methodology of focus group discussion. Findings...
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resource (HR) directors vary cross‐nationally and how gender egalitarian cultural values affect role differences between female … based on the 2004 Cranet survey. Findings – Consistent with the hypotheses, gender egalitarian values reduce sex … directors. The effects of gender egalitarian values have greater impact on reducing vertical differences than horizontal …
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advantage in evaluations of transformational leaders, especially when women are the evaluators. Extension of theories of gender …
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