Cover -- Editorial advisory board -- Editorial -- Women face a labyrinth: an examination of metaphors for women leaders -- Respectable femininity: a significant panel of glass ceiling for career women -- A better career environment for women: developing a blueprint for individuals and...

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...

Purpose – This paper seeks to investigate barriers faced by women in acquiring higher positions in a Malaysian multinational oil company. Design/methodology/approach – Data were obtained through a survey involving 78 executive women in the Malaysian oil company. A structured questionnaire...

Purpose – This paper aims to provide a framework for career counselling designed particularly to support the career development of mid‐career women managers. This approach is referred to as an autobiographical approach to career counselling. The practical application of the approach is...

Purpose – This paper seeks to examine the career experiences of seven women who have developed successful careers in the Chinese information technology (IT) industry, focusing on the way they managed their careers and the implications this has for women's career theory in China....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the special issue. Design/methodology/approach – A brief description of the Gender in Management track at the 2007 British Academy of Management (BAM) Annual Conference held at Warwick Business School and an outline of the papers in the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how women working in science, engineering and technology use online networking, for career and professional development purposes. Design/methodology/approach – A combined qualitative and quantitative approach is taken, using interviews...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to ask whether it is the notion of choice (a pro‐life work/life balance decision) that influences woman's desire to strive for promotion within a hotel organisation or is the choice made for female managers by a system of organisational processes....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore coping strategies devised by executive women in family relationships to advance their career and to maintain career/family balance. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative methodology using a sample of 25 executive women explores career...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to revisit earlier predictions by Judi Marshall in 1991 to explore whether similar issues were evident in a sample of contemporary female managers. Design/methodology/approach – Qualitative data from six Australian female managers who had participated...