...Vahideh Golzard Purpose This paper aims to explore the extent to which the internet has created new opportunities for Iranian women in Tehran. It analyses both challenges and opportunities offered to Iranian women by the internet as a means of economic empowerment. Design/methodology/approach...

... Publishing Limited 2009 Women Social networks Networking Career development Internet The time periods for data collection, sample sizes, methods and approaches used in the two phases of the research are summarised in Table I . In the first phase of the project, invitations...

... commerce Internet the venture launching approach; the business sector; and the size of the company. The questionnaire was prepared in such a way as to allow the examination of parameters, essential for the realization of the research. Before the questionnaire took on its finalized...

... the tutor as a facilitator. The unions represented in the group were diverse from the large, female‐dominated UNISON (two women), to the male dominated GPMU (one woman), ASLEF (two women) and FBU (one woman). Two women worked for the TUC. Trade unions Women Career development Learning Internet...