... 03 2019 08 08 2019 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Gender Careers Oman Success Leadership Family life An impressive amount of academic literature has addressed the scarcity of women’s leadership in the Arab...

... risen (Tharenou, 2008). This trend may continue due to the increased proportion of highly educated women in the workforce in general – but also due to companies' needs to fill expatriate positions in the face of a decreasing number of eager candidates. Women Expatriates Work Family life...

... Working patterns Hours of work Family life Demographic shifts, changing market and economic trends, technological advances and competitive forces have made work‐family integration as a crucial issue for everyone (Aryee et al., 2005 ; Lewis and Cooper, 1999). In India, the demographic...

... and qualitative methods provides substantive insights into the complexity of these relationships for women at midlife. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Social behaviour Gender Women Work study Family life Social support has positive consequences for improving health, reducing stress...

...‐married women without children through comparative analysis with other groups of working women. Elizabeth A. Hamilton can be contacted at: hamiltel@bc.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Women Single people Family life Job satisfaction Role conflict In most...

... --> Motherhood Parenting Gender Employment Family life Thirty years ago, a favoured topic for a “snap debate” in my high school social studies class was “Should mothers work?” The gendered social relations of early 1970s meant this was a contentious “issue”: the economy was beginning to shrink...

... cent of agreements: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Equal opportunities Women workers Australia Affirmative action Family life Issues of equal employment opportunity (EEO) have been tackled in several ways in Australia. From the late 1960s successful equal pay cases were...

... thinking and rhetoric. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Professional services Lifestyles Family life Gender This methodology by and large allowed the interviewee to determine the direction and flow of the conversation to areas of particular concern. While this technique does...

... of men and women in the labor market. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Job mobility Work Family life Gender Spain Work organizations and families are the two institutions most central to individuals. Because work and family activities frequently occur at different times and places...

... (telephone operators, clerical workers, etc.). Thus, there is a pronounced gender‐based differentiation of telework jobs. Most often, men hold the autonomous professional jobs and women hold salaried clerical jobs. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Telecommunications Women Work Organization Family life...

... are discussed, including the possible effects that this will have on recruiting women graduates into careers in higher education in the future. Women Careers Equal opportunities Academic staff Work Family life It is unacceptable that Britain’s universities should remain bastions of male power...

...) © MCB UP Limited 2000 --> Feminism Family life Behavioural sciences Transformations of Gender and Race: Family and Developmental Perspectives originated as a special thematic issue of the Journal of Feminist Family Therapy and is essentially aimed at offering...

... generation of small business owners and salaried employees. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Work Family life Family firms Small firms Family‐friendly organizations The UN‐designated International Year of the Family 1994 highlighted the need for legislative and employer initiatives in response...

...Norma Tombari; Nora Spinks This retrospective analysis of the development of work‐family‐life and flexibility initiatives at Royal Bank Financial Group (RBFG) examines the factors that lead to success. Using internal and external research, quantitative and qualitative measures and benchmarking...

... development Women Family life Canada A recent issue of Fortune magazine featured a cover story with the title “Is your family wrecking your career?" Its thesis was that individuals having family responsibilities may also face some career liabilities. In the traditional family, men were...

.... Careers Family firms Family life Managers Women Family owned business enterprises are the most common type of organisations in the UK (Leach, 1994; Cromie et al., 1995), the USA (Gersick et al., 1997) and many other parts of the world (Kotkin,1992). In spite of this it has...

... the experiences of British South Asian full‐time managerial or professional women combining work and family life. A qualitative study based in the north‐west of England was conducted utilising semi‐structured interviews with 17 women. Five themes are discussed: cultural influences on domestic responsibilities...

... workers’ career development. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Banks Family life Management development Promotion Women In any given occupation, and in any given public office, the higher the rank, prestige or influence, the smaller the proportion of women (Hansard Society, 1990, p. 2...

... and that the burden of household tasks falls disproportionately on women (Armstrong, 1989; Hochschild, 1989). Business graduates Children Elder care Family life Gender Time © MCB UP Limited 1998 Most prior research into household tasks has focussed on the allocation of tasks between partners...

... Doctors Family life Stress Women The rapid and extensive changes which have taken place in the British National Health Service (NHS) during the last decade have featured prominently in recent reviews of stress in doctors (e.g. BMA, 1992; Chambers, et al., 1996). Sutherland and Cooper...