. Universities are attempting to address the problem, through policies for recruitment and retention of senior women. This paper … describes what happened in one faculty in a large university that has such gender equity policies when three women were … appointed to head departments. At the end of a year, all three were gone. The women experienced a masculine‐oriented management …

The focus on women and gender‐related issues is clearly one of the most important concerns of development …

conditions and culture in which women’s management careers are successfully progressed in the public sector and the extent to …

out using this method. Findings Women in public sector management, administration, and politics explain a substantial … portion of gender inequality. Policies to increase women’s representation in parliaments, as heads of state, in ministerial … Development Programme, WEF data do not capture the full experience of women worldwide. Subsequent qualitative research is …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse a women entrepreneurial model that promotes inclusive strategy and … among rural women entrepreneurs, such as purpose, processes and products of the strategy and stakeholders. The paper reviews … existing literature on women entrepreneurship, especially in a masculine society. Findings – The analysis reveals that women …

women's efforts extends well beyond their own businesses, to finance family enterprises, educate children, improve household … microfinance projects – to illustrate that the human capital of even hard to reach women can be harnessed for a community's and …, demonstrating that with a relatively low investment of resources, women are empowered to contribute to the growth of the small …

This paper on women in labour unions in India highlights the occupational segregation suffered by women in union … than 8 per cent of the 380 million workforce in India are unionized and women account for a very small fraction of trade … occupations where women are organized, the incidence of union leadership among women varies considerably. On the positive side …

Purpose – This paper aims to evaluate the variations in the entry and exit of women apprentices in the USA, overall and … by race/ethnicity, over the 1995‐2003 period. Also aims to examine how women's representation among new apprentices and …/methodology/approach – An individual‐level dataset from the US Department of Labor is used to estimate econometrically women's representation in …