, however. Practical implications – While men (and women) continue to work very long hours in the UK, while the gender pay gap … women do not progress in accountancy to the same extent as men, and earn considerably less. The qualitative evidence … suggests that some residual gender discrimination is still present, but more important are the difficulties in combining paid …

Purpose – This paper seeks to review gender differences in career goals and career tactics of men and women in the … internal consistency limit these findings. Practical implications – Gender discrimination based on beliefs that women will be … career beliefs of 233 managers employed in 16 organizations in the PRC. Findings – Women and men were equally likely to value …

formalised “women's network” launched by management as a diversity intervention to aid women's career development in an oil, gas … research comprising analysis of company policy, interviews with Human Resources staff, a census survey of women expatriates …, followed by in‐depth, semi‐structured female expatriate interviews. Findings – Women value networking to prepare for …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how women academics from the Arab Middle East enact their careers … factors (Islam, patriarchy, and family centrality) that shape/bind women's careers choices and patterns allowing thus for a … with reference to double-bounded contexts: academia as an institution encoding organizational career scripts and gender as …

to the types of assignments women undertake. Practical suggestions for organizations are given to widen expatriate gender … women to take up expatriate assignments in the male-dominated oil and gas industry. Design/methodology/approach – The … organizational policy relevant to expatriation. Findings – Potential assignees value the information that women role models can …

career mobility of women working as part‐time managers. Design/methodology/approach – In‐depth, semi‐structured interviews …. Interviews explored women's career trajectories before and after the transition to part‐time work and focused on career mobility …, aspirations and work‐life balance. Findings – The part‐time managers in this sample held varied careers while working full …

Despite the numerical predominance of women in nursing there is a marked concentration of women, especially those … found that comparable groups of female nurses received unequal employment opportunities. Women with dependent children were …

A number of top executive women were interviewed to determine their beliefs concerning the needs of women for … and skills development needs remain important, while no current concern was found for training concerning stereotyping …

Over the years, research studies have found sex stereotyping in television advertisements. However, those studies …

gender stereotyping of women depicted in 946 printed advertisements from two European countries widely differing in their …The objective of this study is to test whether gender stereotyping in printed advertising is more prevalent in … to the use of gender stereotyping in printed advertising, potentially implying that other factors underlie the use of …