Because the low participation rate of women in international management is problematic, this study seeks to identify … which international mobility policies and practices appear to be most responsive to the needs of women. Based upon 337 … study results suggest that this form of support is critical for encouraging women to accept international assignments. No …

The UK construction industry has significantly increased the number of women that it attracts, due to an active … empirical evidence that women professionals will be afforded equal opportunities once they have entered the industry. This … article reports on a research project which explored women’s careers in construction. Interviews were held with over 40 …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine women managers’ perceptions of forces influencing their career …, interpretive approach is adopted for analysing in-depth interviews with women managers in Saudi HE. Findings The findings of this … study provide an in-depth understanding of Saudi women’s experience in management in HE. This study shows that women face a …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how women academics from the Arab Middle East enact their careers … factors (Islam, patriarchy, and family centrality) that shape/bind women's careers choices and patterns allowing thus for a …

women define and experience ambition at early career stages in a professional services organisation. Design …/methodology/approach Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 women from a professional services organisation, who were aged 24-33 and …. Findings The analysis revealed four main themes in the women’s experiences: subjective, dynamic ambition; frustrated lack of …

limitations. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative methodology drawing from 35 semi-structured interviews with Lebanese women. A … private sphere responsibilities for women, particularly related to the relational and instrumental logics of childrearing and … husband-oriented responsibilities. Women’s legitimacy judgment formation seems to be based on multilevel cues and on …

women to take up expatriate assignments in the male-dominated oil and gas industry. Design/methodology/approach – The … organizational policy relevant to expatriation. Findings – Potential assignees value the information that women role models can … provide on living in challenging, masculine locations. Role models are particularly important to women undertaking …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight an emerging and evolving area within women’s careers literature … – women’s opting-out and opting-in experiences. Highlights from several career theories, extant research, and a framework for … women’s opting-out and opting-in experiences are discussed as well as future research considerations for women’s career …

Purpose – Women remain dramatically underrepresented in the engineering profession and far fewer women than men persist … in the field. This study aims to identify individual and contextual factors that distinguish women who persist in …‐structured interviews with 31 women engineers, ten of whom had left an engineering career and 21 persisting for on average 21 years. The …