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boundary, women's work and careers. Findings – Knowledge work, ICT and work‐life balance policies are found to increase the … temporal and geographical flexibility of work. Such enhanced flexibility should facilitate women's participation and … significantly prevent women from participating and advancing. Research limitations/implications – Research needs to explicitly …
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, paradoxically, disfavoring women. A major reason is that control becomes more opaque, which favors those already in power. Practical …
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microfinance projects – to illustrate that the human capital of even hard to reach women can be harnessed for a community's and …, demonstrating that with a relatively low investment of resources, women are empowered to contribute to the growth of the small … interventions. Whether or not the program “targets” or “mainstreams” women should be based on the context and an understanding of …
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that younger people have more positive attitudes towards women working outside their homes than do older people. Men are … less pro‐feminist in their attitudes than are women. Men and women disapprove of a woman working if preschool children … and job security. A supportive attitude for working women was associated with higher education, higher family income …
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Purpose – Research in gender and development (GAD) remains largely preoccupied with women's issues and ignores the … patriarchy. For development to be truly transformative, men's issues should be addressed not just as instruments for women … re‐vision and “men” stream development that does not ignore women, but accommodates men as gendered subjects. Originality …
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. Research in Shropshire, UK, has, however, found that most “non‐farm but on‐farm” enterprises are started and run by women, but … rural female entrepreneurs and highlights one project (Women in Rural Enterprise – WiRE). WiRE has been formed specifically …
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The crisis which the three‐“S” resorts face is their manifest incapacity to respond to the new demands placed on them by the market‐conscious, experienced, well‐travelled tourist of the twenty‐first century. An increasing proportion of these “mature tourists” is over 55 years of...
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were collected from 251 women MBA graduates in managerial and professional roles using anonymous questionnaires …
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entrepreneurial discourse is mobilized as a system of thinking about women entrepreneurs which is able to make some form of that … that form of governance of economic relations? Discourses on women entrepreneurs are linguistic practices that create truth … effects. Argues that social studies of women entrepreneurs tend to reproduce an androcentric entrepreneur mentality that makes …
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, the paper explores some of the ways in which men and women are “situated” within change management discourse. Findings … – Argues that within managerial discourse men are constructed as “effective” managers of change, whereas women are relegated to … an “affective” support function, and that this can be understood as an appropriation of women's ascribed Otherness …
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