...Julia Barbar; Rabia Naguib Purpose This paper aims to examine women’s participation in informal employment in Lebanon through an intersectional lens that foregrounds power, positioning and agency under conditions of protracted crisis. It advances intersectional scholarship by conceptualizing...

... to the limited knowledge about women and management in Lebanon, as well as the Middle Eastern region in general. In Western‐industrialized countries women's participation in the labour force has risen over the past three decades and they have made impressive progress in their careers as managers. In Middle...

... in their progression and development. Originality/value The paper contributes to the limited literature on women in management in Lebanon as well as the Middle Eastern region in general. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Lebanon Women Organizations Career development Managers Influence...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Women Entrepreneurs Entrepreneurialism Developing countries Lebanon Adapting the relational framework to the study of entrepreneurship, there is a need to understand the reciprocal influences and interplay of three sets of factors...

... addressing business ethics and gender differences in the Middle East. This study adds to what is known about the effect of these variables on ethical orientations across different contexts. Business ethics Sensitivity analysis Gender Lebanon Middle East Yusuf Sidani can be contacted at: ys01...

... of differentials in wages/salaries across gender in the banking, nursing and higher education sectors in Lebanon. Design/methodology/approach A survey was designed and distributed to a sample of 168 employees drawn from a total of three major banks, five well‐known medical centers and two institutions...

... by the progressive evolution of the Lebanese banking sector over the past few decades. Originality/value The value added of this research is to revisit the salience of the glass ceiling in a non‐traditional context, namely Lebanon. While the findings encountered in the banking sector cannot be generalized...

... of this research is to present an insider view and fresh perspective into career constraints facing women from a non‐traditional context, namely Lebanon. In view of the Western‐centric nature of academic publication on the topic, there is a real need and added value in empirical research stemming from an Arab...

... in upper‐division business major classes in three countries, Oman, Lebanon and the UAE The women thus constituted educated entrants to their respective labor markets. The data were subjected to an analysis of group means on each of the questions, using the Scheffe option available in ANOVA. Findings...