... for the intersection of justice, art and social life. Although artists and scientists come from vastly different domains, these two examples highlight the importance of contextual factors and the role of stakeholders in the talent development of eminent women and individuals of color. Marie Curie and Jacob...

... in to low performance. This study aims to identify the factors determining organizational stress among women workers in the garment industry in India and to develop and validate a contextual scale for organizational stress among women workers in the garment industry in India. Design/methodology/approach...

...Xinyi Bian; Jia Wang Purpose The purpose of this integrative literature review was three-fold: to explore the phenomenon of women’s career interruptions as revealed by publications in the past two decades, to propose a new career decision tree model (CDTM) and to outline an agenda for future...

...Majd Megheirkouni; Muhammad Azam Roomi Purpose This study explores the positive and negative factors influencing transformational learning experiences of female leaders in women’s leadership development programmes in sports and examines the differences in learning/change factors cited by those who...

...Nicola Patterson; Sharon Mavin; Jane Turner Purpose This feminist standpoint study aims to make an empirical contribution to the entrepreneurial leadership and HRD fields. Women entrepreneur leaders' experiences of gender will be explored through a framework of doing gender well and doing gender...

...Donald Stoddart References Freire , P. (1970), Pedagogy of the Oppressed , Herder and Herder , New York, NY . Handscomb , A. (2011), “ Coaching women to lead ”, Nursing Management – UK , Vol. 18 No. 2 , p. 11 . Johns , G. and Saks , A.M. (2005...

...) highlights the increasing numbers of women obtaining higher education qualifications in relation to men, however, this has failed to alleviate gender discrimination and support women's accession to senior management positions. The role of higher education and education more generally, is positioned...

... and training is growing, very little has been done to assess mentor training interventions. The present paper is one of the first to address and explore this issue. Mentoring Mentors Women Training Start‐up entrepreneurs Greece Within the EMTI, mentors, after being selected, are trained...

...Malin Tillmar Purpose The purpose of this paper is to deal with the design of small‐business training programs and focuses on women business owners, their real needs and the supply of adequate training. How and to what extent are client selection and support needs influenced by the gender system...

...Patricia A. London; Daniele D. Flannery The purpose of the qualitative study was to understand how social factors might help or hinder the training transfer process. Specifically, this qualitative research looked at the meanings a group of women attached to social factors that might influence...

...Carol Ackah; Norma Heaton The research for this paper focused on the career paths and career progression of men and women in management occupations. The study set out to explore the extent to which the traditional career has been replaced by the so‐called “boundaryless” career. In particular...

... of organizational support, together with the invisible barriers which constitute the glass ceiling, explain the relative scarcity of female expatriate managers. According to Smith and Still (1996), the international human resource management literature has given very little attention to women as expatriates...

... Liz and Jenny won the award against stiff competition from all over Europe for their work, most especially their "Springboard Women's Development Programme", which has been delivered to 105,000 women in nine European countries, through a network of 385 carefully selected, trained and licensed...

... The network of trainers deliver the Springboard Women's Development Programme, which helps women to become the kind of employees everyone is claiming to want in the twenty-first century, taking responsibility for themselves and their goals. The birthday was marked by a three-day conference...

... For copies of the report, contact Val Hammond on +44 (0) 1293 851644. © MCB UP Limited 2000 --> Women Professional associations Careers Help for women returners Keywords: Women, Professional associations, Careers Women Returners' Network (WRN) has carried out...

... She said that, in trying to keep up with its foreign competitors, the country could not afford to bypass tapping the rich vein of women's talent in the business field. The policy of the current government for promoting equality was to do what was needed but to be as exact as possible...

... © MCB UP Limited 2000 --> Women Employee rights Discrimination New research suggests employers' family-friendly policies are failing most women Keywords: Women, Employee rights, Discrimination In her foreword to the Work-Life Manual, published...

...Michelle Wallace Examines the situation for women workers in Australia after a ten‐year focus on training. The National Training Reform Agenda is discussed and the position of women in the Australian workforce explained. Comparative statistics on workplace training and some qualitative studies...

... perspectives and experiences of these senior female international managers. From their different perspectives and experiences, different assumptions about women in international management and female life‐style choices are arrived at. This study of senior females in international management makes a theoretical...

...Ruth Simpson; Yochanan Altman This article presents evidence on the career success of young women managers and suggests an interaction between age and seniority as young women managers outpace their male counterparts in career progression. Hence the glass ceiling may be seen as “time bounded...