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 … provide on living in challenging, masculine locations. Role models are particularly important to women undertaking …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight an emerging and evolving area within women’s careers literature … – women’s opting-out and opting-in experiences. Highlights from several career theories, extant research, and a framework for … women’s opting-out and opting-in experiences are discussed as well as future research considerations for women’s career …

Purpose – Women remain dramatically underrepresented in the engineering profession and far fewer women than men persist … in the field. This study aims to identify individual and contextual factors that distinguish women who persist in …‐structured interviews with 31 women engineers, ten of whom had left an engineering career and 21 persisting for on average 21 years. The …

was gender diversity, proxied by the proportion of women, the presence of women, and a gender heterogeneity index … female members on management boards. This implies that large firms are “tougher” for women in terms of opportunities to hold …

Taiwanese women leaders are more likely to follow the traditional norms whereas women leaders in the United States tend to …

Purpose – For a long time, women have not been judged by the same standards as men when trying to enter a trade or … barriers are faced by women in career progression? What are the differences in perceptions among female sub‐groups regarding … these barriers? What policies and improvement programs can be provided to promote women's career progression? What is the …

Purpose – Working women being housewives have to face major problems. They have to trade off between work domain and … experienced by women with responsibilities and type of work arrangement experienced Design/methodology/approach – The study is … conducted by exploring the responses of 100 women working in 25 different banks (public as well as private banks) in non …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the role of women in the field of photography after the second wave … of feminism in Europe. Design/methodology/approach The grounded theory on the position of women in contemporary … women photographers in the main museum collections in Europe. Findings Gender inequality in the various artistic disciplines …

Whilst the participation of women in sport can be traced back at least as far as 1000BC, there is evidence to suggest … that barriers to women’s participation in sport still exist. One possible barrier that can be investigated is the …