This paper is based on the experiences of 31 women who have recently leftpartner roles within an international management consultancy firm. The purposeof this paper is to explore discursively their perceptions of choice withintheir decisions to leave. Design/methodology/approach - Data were...

Purpose – This paper is based on the experiences of 31 women who have recently left partner roles within an international management consultancy firm. The purpose of this paper is to explore discursively their perceptions of choice within their decisions to leave. Design/methodology/approach...

This thesis explores the issue of why female managers’ commitment is so often reportedas being less of that of males, despite research evidence that there is no genderdifference in levels of commitment. No previous research was found which reportedmanagerial meanings of “commitment”,...