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

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 …

maternity leave exclusive to women to limit women’s right to work and lacks financial support for parental leave. Maternity … leave limits women’s right to work because it obligates employers to pay women on maternity leave and prohibits women from … working after childbirth. The lack of financial support for parental leave forces women to take leave instead of men because …

Women are facing increasing financial responsibility, while at the same time, the consumer financial world is evolving … accelerating the narrowing of these gaps. The results of the study indicate that the assumption can on longer be made that women … knowledge. This finding may indicate that women have different dispositions regarding how they use the financial resources …

Women are a significant presence in today's workforce; however, few rise to the top management ranks. Therefore, there … that may contribute to women's objective (income, span of control, promotions) and subjective (self-reported satisfaction … authority) factors. Participants were members of the National Longitudinal Surveys Young Women cohort, conducted by the Bureau …