process to enhance participation by small businesses, small disadvantaged businesses, labor surplus area firms, and women …

, we provide an overview of the Italian national context and the historical role of women’s involvement in the labor force …

persons to the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency, to identify their approach undertaken in implementing … equal employment opportunity. This industry is a female-dominated industry but, despite the high numbers of women employed … in the industry, there are limited numbers of women in management. This study is different from others in that it …

businesses (FCBs) in a series of distinct learning phases. Because that study's sample did not include many women, our present … study focuses on women in FCBs to better understand how they exercise leadership and entrepreneurship in the family firm … context. Case study analysis of an international sample of women FCB leaders, using frameworks which avoid essentialist …

firms. A few small-scale studies, notably Poza and Messer (2001) and Curimbaba (2002), describe the varying roles that women … adopt, but without explaining why they adopt such roles. Our research aims to examine the career progression of women … to establish whether and how the journey of women family business leaders follow different pathways. This chapter focuses …

Purpose: The aim of the paper is to explore some issues regarding the career development of men and women retail … dominated by male norms and values and this has implications for the way in which men and women managers experience their jobs …

PurposeRetailing 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 article examines the perceived facilitators and problems of senior retail managers’ career …