Although women now represent over forty percent of the workforce in most countries, organizations have been slow to capitalize on the potential of their women employees. This volume focuses on the business case for change, sources of resistance - including male backlash, denial, inaction and...

This ebook contains current research findings from an international group of women in management scholars. Collectively these contributions indicate that while managerial and professional women still face significant challenges slow progress is being made. The papers consider mentoring; examples...

Examines the relationship of work experiences hypothesized to be related to women’s career satisfaction as well as their psychological well being. Looks at data collected by questionnaires from managerial and professional women in Bulgaria, Canada, Norway, the Philippines and Singapore. Showed...

This study examined Filipino managerial women’s participation in a variety of education, training and development activities and the usefulness and impact of such activities. Filipino managerial women rated orientation programs, career development programs, technical training and management...

Examines the status of corporate women in Canadian organizations, from data provided by 124 vice‐presidents of human resources, through the use of anonymous questionnaires. Half were in resources and manufacturing and in organizations with less than 500 employees. Women represented about 40...