of women it employs but there remains an enduring under‐representation of women in its management positions. The majority … of women in the industry work part‐time and this paper aims to explore the factors that impact upon the career … finds continuing barriers to career progression for women working part‐time in retailing. Despite family friendly employment …

personal values and attitudes toward women, two themes that strongly impact employment relations and a wide variety of … countries were more egalitarian in their attitudes towards women in the workforce than were men. Additionally, Colombian … respondents had more egalitarian attitudes towards women scores, followed by Brazilians and Argentineans; Mexicans exhibited the …

Purpose – Women continue to be under‐represented at higher levels of management in organisations and on boards … designed to redress this imbalance. The problem is how to ensure that more women make it to senior positions. This paper seeks … to explore one approach to advancing women's careers through a women‐only development program designed for those …

match jobs to applicants in the domestic services sector and how institutional gatekeepers relegate immigrant women to jobs …

The recent interest in women returning to, or increasing their, labour market participation has largely ignored the … skills and aspirations of women themselves. This article is based on a survey of mothers of young children in a fairly … prosperous part of the South East of the UK. Research findings indicate that women lack confidence about their ability to return …

female graduates in recent years. Investigating “women‐friendly” recruitment and retention measures, this exploratory study … sets out to discover whether the prospects for graduate women were improving over the whole working lifespan. Suggests that … employers may have as yet given insufficient attention to the long‐term implications of a rise in the proportion of women in …

Increases in female employment in post‐war Britain are characterized by the concentration of women in low‐paid and low … status occupations. Demographic change in the late 1980s and early 1990s could have improved the employment status of women …, with employers devising “women friendly” initiatives to deal with the accompanying predicted skill and labour shortages …

Outlines women′s continuing pay and employment disadvantage in Britain. Discusses limitations of the legal compliance …

evidence of the growth of a peripheral workforce and the marked over‐representation of women in such jobs, supports the …

Challenges the assumption implicit in much of the literature on women managers that their failure to progress can be … explained solely in terms of the individual behaviour of women and their employers. Examines the characteristics of … organizations in which women make their careers which are potent factors impeding female advancement. Draws attention to the effects …