... effect” which accounts for the environmental and discursive effects of gender and disability within the workplace. Design/methodology/approach The paper reviews existing literature on gender, disability and employment and uses that literature to construct and support the concept of a two-way mirror...

... housewives presented three core themes – the bottlenecks to employment, the available opportunities of employment and growth and their preferred status of employment. The qualitative data further revealed that though they can easily do with some more money at their disposal, they cannot join in the full-time...

... will benefit women in the workplace, giving them due recognition, empowerment and prospects for upward mobility. Originality/value This paper highlights localised barriers to the advancement of women within a South African city. South Africa Women Employment Glass ceiling Gender discrimination...

... be contacted at: nancy.graber@cwu.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Women Employment United States of America Mentoring The often cited Eby (2010) defines mentoring as the (career‐oriented) developmental relationship that exists between the mentor as the more seasoned...

...Antonino Callea; Flavio Urbini; Delaney Bucknor Purpose The purpose of this paper was to establish whether precariousness of life as determined by temporary employment contributed to anxiety and depression and whether its consequences on daily life were differentiated in relation to gender...

... through a longitudinal analysis of a demographically unique national database, comprising the 46,565 registered nursing workforces in NHS Scotland from 2000‐2008. The variables examined include gender, employment grades, number and length of career breaks, lengths of service, age, working patterns...

...Hitendra Pillay; Megan Tones; Kathy Kelly Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine the patterns of transitional employment (TE) aspirations and training and development (T&D) needs of women within local government. Design/methodology/approach A quantitative survey methodology...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Women Pregnancy Leadership Employment Finland Diversity is a part of every organization. One interesting phenomena within diversity, basically related to gender, is pregnancy and childbirth. Pregnancy is one of the most concrete family issues...

... to improve the working culture for women pilots and to appreciate the diversity that women bring to organizations. Originality/value This paper provides insights into an under researched area of women's employment and the existence of cultural sexism. The advent of women in the cockpit initially...

... seeks to encapsulate contemporary thinking in the discipline of equality and diversity management with specific focus on its interaction with the externalities of region, power, politics and society. Originality/value The paper contributes to the developing discourse of employment‐based diversity...

... (n=120) females and (n=184) males who completed two self‐report questionnaires. Findings Relatively few gender differences were observed in the present study. The fact that females and males experienced the job loss and re‐employment process similarly was interpreted as a sign...

... implications Women need to acquire technical training that would improve their employment situation. Women working on construction sites should not consider themselves as compelled to be in a “fit‐in situation” rather they should reject discriminatory values. The acquisition of construction skills...

... Limited 2006 Banking Employment Gender Job satisfaction Nigeria Pay One of the most significant changes in the banking sector in Nigeria has been the increasing number of women who have entered the profession in recent years. Males have typically dominated the position of bank...

... wanted their employers, their colleagues, and in some cases, their friends and families, to understand that paid work is important to them. Similarly, some of their partners wanted their employers and colleagues to accept their new commitment to fatherhood. In what Gatrell describes as a “new finding...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 --> Gender Employment Businesswomen urge BLS to continue gender-specific reports Keywords: Gender, Employment In a letter to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Business and Professional Women/USA (BPW/USA) President...

... Women Employment Entrepreneurs United States of America © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 --> Women employer firms continue to show strength: similar survival rates, fewer job losses from 1997-2001 Keywords: Women, Employment, Entrepreneurs, United States...

... the barriers (Nelson and Burke, 2000). In UK the expansion of women's employment has been only in part‐time jobs, predominantly in the service industry. According to Wilson (2004) , women in the UK face inequality in the labour force and still lag behind men in terms of income. Although they form 75 percent...

.... In the early twentieth century feminists regarded education and training as the key to economic independence for women by opening up access to adequately paid employment. A century later, in many countries of the world women’s educational achievements have caught up with and, in many cases, surpassed men’s...

...Maureen Woodd This paper challenges the common understanding of the word “career” in relation to the differences in male and female employment and seeks to show that women normally follow a career pattern which has characteristics of flexibility, change, transferable skills, part‐time and temporary...

...Usha R. Rout; Cary L. Cooper; Helen Kerslake Expands on research which has demonstrated that employment has positive or neutral effects on women’s health. This pilot study examines whether these positive effects could also be found in employed mothers by comparing working mothers with non‐working...