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 …

, 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 …

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 …

Examines the roles of men and women depicted in magazine advertising in The Netherlands, Sweden and the USA and … models depicted and Hofstede′s Masculinity index. Most of the roles shown for men and women are non‐working roles in all … three countries. Within the non‐working roles, US and Dutch magazine advertisers are more likely to portray men and women in …