This special edition of the Regional Review is based on presentations made at Reaching the Top: Challenges and Opportunities for Women Leaders, a conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston on March 3, 2004.

Women have made great strides in the business and professional world.

Recent data show declines in labor force participation for highly educated women, but the causes of these changes are not easy to identify.

This paper examines leadership theories along with the advancement of women within the United States as well as in Latin America. Data from an exploratory survey of 19 women executives in Latin America and 19 women executives in the United States suggest that globalization has transformed the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the determinants of wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany: self‐employed and salaried businesswomen, and investigate whether ethnicity is important in these challenging jobs....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the existence of sticky floor and glass ceiling effects in the gender wage gap (GWG) among Spanish managers. In addition, the paper determines if the pay gap at every quantile is a result of the gender characteristic differences, or the...

Purpose – This study aims to investigate the United Arab Emirates (UAE) society's attitudes towards women managers held by a sample of 186 participants. Design/methodology/approach – The subjects completed the newly developed multidimensional aversion to women who work scale (MAWWWS). The...