alternative accounts of how women legitimize their claims to top leadership positions: navigating and pioneering. In navigating … accounts, the women legitimized their claims to top authority positions by following well institutionalized paths of career …, investors). In pioneering accounts, the women articulated a strategic vision and cultivated a community of support and …

female portfolio manager and funds that have all female portfolio managers. Funds with all female managers perform no … idea that female managers need to perform better for their funds to survive. Yet, female-managed surviving funds have fewer … female and male managers, but that only the best performing female managers manage to survive …

continued under-representation of women in terms of the proportion of councillors who are women, and the ‘gender gap' that … exists in terms of council leadership and the portfolios that men and women hold on council cabinets or executives. It moves … about the substantive representation of women in local government …

A comparative study of new women-owned firms andolder women-owned firms is presented, highlighting the major … were examined. The new generation of women business owners is younger and more highlyeducated than the previous generations … of women entrepreneurs. The newergenerations of women business-owners have obtained more managerial experiencebefore …

feeling of working a double work day is widespread among women managers, especially in large companies. 3) Lack of sympathy on … the part of colleagues and superiors when women give priority to their family responsibilities undermines women managers …This paper is intended to contribute to the study of career inhibitors and career enablers for women. The analysis is …

Previous research on women directors mostly explores the link between women directors and firm performance. The … potential mediators explaining this link are largely under-researched. In our exploratory paper, we investigate women directors …' roles in interviews with female and male board members. In the perception of board members, women directors widen the board …