climate barriers which constrain women's economic empowerment in six Pacific nations. Practical implications – This research … offers valuable practical insights for policy makers, the judiciaries, the private sectors, women's business organizations …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to summarize and reflect on four presentations at the 2010 Women of Color in the … Academy Conference which focused on strategies that are beneficial to women, especially women of color, to overcoming barriers … these strategies may assist women, especially women of color, to attain greater success rates in their graduate education …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the principal reasons why Emirate women are under‐represented in the … United Arab Emirates (UAE) information technology (IT) sector; and the barriers and challenges that national women have … structured in‐depth interviews conducted with Emirate women who had worked for a minimum of five years in IT. Findings – Although …

Purpose – The issue of discrimination in Afghanistan is pervasive, and the present report focuses on gender … discrimination in employment deemed particularly important for immediate policy intervention by the international community. The … purpose of this paper is to evaluate the measures taken to eliminate gender discrimination in employment since the American …

. Design/methodology/approach – The research studies narratives by 33 prominent women engineers with careers in management who … discuss what it means to be both women and engineers holding high management positions in their organizations. Findings – The … research demonstrates that the process of identity construction for women engineers differs in significant ways from that of …

women will get credit for engaging in some of the same transformational leadership behaviors as men. Originality …

positions in all seven universities funded by the state – including those at Dean to Presidential level, men and women, and … academics and non-academics. The interview schedule used in the qualitative study was devised by the eight-country Women in … homosocial and conformist, where women and their attitudes and priorities are seen as “the problem”. Yet there was a striking …

generality. However, the paper is a contribution to the discussion on how to attract and retain sustainably more women to the …, some insights concerning the motives for women to quit their jobs are highlighted. Social implications – The paper shows … that it is insufficient to simply motivate women to choose a career in engineering. To retain women in such sectors, the …

understand how gender underlies organizational structure in such a way as to subordinate women. Much of the previous work that …'s framework to examine a purportedly female‐gendered organization – the 1970s feminist organization, Stewardesses for Women … learned from this short‐lived organization. Findings – The paper finds that societal pressure and organizing women …