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 …

study focuses on women in FCBs to better understand how they exercise leadership and entrepreneurship in the family firm … assumptions about women's and men's approach to leadership, suggests there are some characteristic ways women leaders learn FCB …In an earlier study (Moores & Barrett 2002) we found successful CEOs had learned leadership of family controlled …

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 … and perhaps managing these paradoxes took them on a learning journey to leadership in which they progressively learnt …

). Because the sample we used for that study did not include many female CEOs, our present study focuses on women in leadership … understand the pathway to leadership in family firms that women travel. Based on interviews with an international sample of women … firms (e.g. Dumas, 1998; Sharma, 2004). Poza and Messer (2001) and Curimbaba (2002) describe the varying roles that women …