...Hoda Parvaneh Shirazi; Ahmed Al-Asfour; Omaima Hajjami Purpose This integrative literature review examines how women, particularly those with marginalized identities, experience, navigate, and recover from career interruptions. Using intersectionality as an analytic framework, the study...

...Corinne Holden; Paula Corcoran; Julia Yates Purpose There is substantial evidence that menopause can have major implications for women at work, yet limited research has focused on the experiences of women in low-paid roles. This study draws on the psychology of working theory (PWT) to help explain...

...Archita Dutta; Pooja Purang Purpose The present study aims to explore women’s mentoring experiences in the context of their non-linear careers in the Indian cultural context. The study implies the importance of considering women’s non-linear careers and cultural context to make women’s mentoring...

...Itumeleng Mosolena; Michael B. Charles; Erica Wilson Purpose This article explores the enabling and constraining factors affecting women pilots and cadets in Australian commercial aviation. Despite women’s long involvement in aviation, gendered stereotypes persist in a traditionally male-dominated...

... policies and employment contracts) and their implications for academic career trajectories for women in an Arab Middle Eastern context. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected through comprehensive, face-to-face interviews with 20 women affiliated with four universities in Jordan...

...Suad Dukhaykh; Diana Bilimoria Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the factors that influence Saudi Arabian women to persist in nontraditional work careers, which are primarily in gender-integrated work environments and male-dominated industries. Design/methodology/approach...

...Susan Shortland Purpose The purpose of this exploratory research is to understand how women have accessed male-dominated oil and gas international rotational assignments and why they believe these roles to be professionally worthwhile. Design/methodology/approach This cross-sectional...

...Jouharah M. Abalkhail Purpose This paper explores the experiences of women in Saudi Arabia who have been managed by other women, and examines how junior women perceive senior women's role in advancing their career. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on qualitative data gathered...

...Toyin Ajibade Adisa; Fang Lee Cooke; Vanessa Iwowo Purpose By conceptualising patriarchy in the workplace as a social situation, the purpose of this paper is to examine the prevalence of patriarchal attitudes and their impact on women’s workplace behaviour among Nigerian organisations. Design...

...Susan Shortland; Stephen J. Perkins Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of organisational performance and development review policy and practice on women’s access to international careers via long-term expatriate assignments in the oil and gas industry, with a specific focus...

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...Deborah A. O’Neil; Margaret E. Brooks; Margaret M. Hopkins Purpose The purpose of this paper is to better understand women’s working relationships and career support behaviors, by investigating expectations women have of other women regarding senior women’s roles in (and motivations for) helping...

...-structured interviews with Lebanese women. A multilevel analytic framework combining the institutional structures of private and public patriarchy with the micro-processes of institutional logics is used. Findings Legitimization of (not) engaging in paid work is often tied to patriarchal logics...

...Charlotte Harman; Ruth Sealy Purpose The purpose of this paper is to challenge existing models of career ambition, extending understanding of how women define and experience ambition at early career stages in a professional services organisation. Design/methodology/approach Semi-structured...

...Jouharah M. Abalkhail Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine women managers’ perceptions of forces influencing their career progression to leadership positions in Saudi Arabian higher education (HE). Design/methodology/approach A qualitative, interpretive approach is adopted...

...Lauren M. Zimmerman; Malissa A. Clark 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...

...Susan Shortland Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which – and how – female expatriate role models support women to take up expatriate assignments in the male-dominated oil and gas industry. Design/methodology/approach – The research uses data from a census...

...Professor Yehuda Baruch, Professor Françoise Dany, Dr Jean Pralong and Dr Céline Davense; Fida Afiouni Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how women academics from the Arab Middle East enact their careers with reference to double-bounded contexts: academia as an institution encoding...

...Kathleen Buse; Diana Bilimoria; Sheri Perelli 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 engineering careers...

...Aurora Chen; Noeleen Doherty; Susan Vinnicombe Purpose This paper seeks to explore the perceived value of an executive MBA (EMBA) to the development of knowing‐who competency for Taiwanese women managers. Design/methodology/approach This qualitative research drew on in‐depth interviews...