empowerment of Indian rural women. The authors argue that the SHG empowerment strategy paves the way for the process of … development of bottom-up empowerment of women. The authors argue that SHG is a systematic strategy and is not solely based on …/methodology/approach A qualitative study was the choice of design due to the inherent inability of the structured surveys to understand women …

workplaces in the context of a developing country, Pakistan. Specifically, this study analyzes divorced women's narratives to …. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative methodology consisting of 25 semistructured interviews with women employees having … divorce status was adopted. Findings Findings demonstrate that divorced women experience a considerable amount of …

are interested in the field of working life in the context of entrepreneurship among Turkish women in Sweden. Design …/methodology/approach – The article is based on the stories of two immigrant women entrepreneurs who reflect upon their experience of working life …

, along with the weighting system, contributes to undervaluation of clerks jobs, predominantly held by women. The authors also …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the challenges facing Iranian women in the workforce. While Iranian … women's participation in higher education is exceptionally high, their participation in the workforce, especially the public … “ideal” type of bureaucracy as defined by Weber (1922). Moreover, occupational segregation, which limits women's choices, is …

proposed that current policy responses supporting women in the workplace appear to be ineffective in closing gender wage gaps … hiring decisions and whether such decisions include an unwillingness to hire or promote women. As findings were based on … the gender wage gap, but may even exacerbate it as employers may avoid hiring women or continue to pay them less than men …

candidates were largely absent from the pool of candidates in both the primary and general elections. Overweight women, but not …

a UK bank. The work of Bourdieu is used to explore women's position of disadvantage and inequality. As Bourdieu helps us … predict, the women are symbolically constructed as different, and face different problems to men. Women's social capital is … on bank premises within a nine-month period. Six focus groups were held – three with men and three with women in four …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the career success of women in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The …-individual experiences of career success. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on in-depth interviews with 26 women managers in … multi-level research design to capture the complexity of women's experience of career success. The findings illustrate how …