...Letícia Barbosa-Silva; Ligia Carolina Oliveira-Silva; Olívia Pillar Perez Miziara; Daniela P. Fernández; Ana Júlia Calegari Torres; Michelle K. Ryan Purpose This paper aims to critically examine how career aspirations have been conceptualized and studied, with a focus on undergraduate women...

...-linear models (IV-Probit) to achieve its objectives. Additionally, robustness checks are conducted using a recursive bivariate probit ( RBP ) model and further robustness was developed to incorporate other measures of women’s leadership as well as different classifications of strategic (core) and non...

...Nina Wilén; Nina Soudan Purpose Traditional patriarchal structures and cultural practices continue to exclude, dominate and marginalize women in West African societies. The purpose of this paper is to explore the question of how a small minority of women in Niger manages to break the glass ceiling...

...Agnieszka Zielińska; María Ana Montes de Oca Ramirez; Enas Hosni Dahadha; Ksenia Usanova Purpose The study explores the work motivations and career needs of women, drawing on self-determination theory. The study aims to develop motivation theories and support organisations to shape the work...

...Mohsin Showkat; Razia Nagina; Usha Nori Purpose This study aims to examine the relationship between financial inclusion and economic empowerment of women, recognising that empowering women is not just an issue of equity and fairness but also an essential prerequisite for achieving sustainable...

...Alexandria Proff; Rasha Musalam Musalam Purpose The purpose of this study is to ascertain the perceptions of UAE nationals and Arab residents toward women in the UAE, with particular emphasis on women leadership. Design/methodology/approach This study made use of a quantitative approach via...

...Maria Bourezg; Osama Khassawneh; Satwinder Singh; Tamara Mohammad; Muntaser J. Melhem; Tamer K. Darwish Purpose This study aims to explore the factors that influence job satisfaction among women in Jordan and contribute to the growing interest in women’s workplace happiness in the context...

...Xu Ting; Yubin Zhou Purpose Existing research has examined the results of women’s political leadership participation (WPLP) and the reasons for the lack of advancement of women to management positions. However, little research has been adopting a more comprehensive framework and configuration...

...Seema Das; Sumi Jha; Sumita Datta Purpose This study aims to explore the career transition process of women professionals when they return to the workplace after a break and re-integrate with their career aspirations. Design/methodology/approach This research used a qualitative approach...

...Jing Song Purpose This study aims to examine why women transition from wage work to self-employed entrepreneurship, the seemingly insecure and unruly economic sector compared with the stable iron rice bowl and the fancy spring rice jobs. Design/methodology/approach Based on in-depth interviews...

...Rabia Naguib; Muznah Madeeha Purpose Despite several policies in the Arab Gulf States aimed at promoting women’s empowerment through employment, women’s career progress has not met the expected gains. Workplace empowerment is a critical aspect of women’s economic empowerment. Therefore, this paper...

... women farmers. Design/methodology/approach The participants received entrepreneurial training through visual multimedia package. The sample size was made up of 540 widowed women farmers. The entrepreneurship competence and economic self-efficacy scales were used as the instruments for data...

...Noora Lari Purpose Societal barriers continue to cause gender disparities in women’s share of political authority. As a representative case study for the Arab Gulf region, this paper aims to investigate public opinion on adopting a nationwide quota for women’s participation in top government...

...Sakina Dixon; Jera Elizondo Niewoehner-Green; Stacy Smulowitz; Deborah N. Smith; Amy Rutstein-Riley; Trenae M. Thomas Purpose This scoping review aims to examine peer-reviewed literature related to girls’ (age 0–18) and young women’s (age 19–30) leader identity development. Design/methodology...

...Katarzyna Bachnik; Liza Howe-Walsh; Lisa Critchley; Marisa Alicea; Maria Guajardo; Christa Ellen Washington Purpose This study aims to explore the individual lived crucible experiences of women leaders in higher education (HE) and business as the catalyst to investigate organisational inequality...

...Jean G. Beaupre Purpose This paper aims to explore and better understand the workplace experiences of young professional women, as they relate to their leadership ambition. Research has shown that women graduate from college with equal or greater leadership ambition than men. By mid-career...

...Mercedes Mareque; Elena de Prada; Margarita Pino Juste Purpose This study aims to delve deep into the differences observed in leadership acquisition and development between men and women and analyse the impact of certain extra-curricular activities demonstrated to influence leadership acquisition...

...Patricia Molinero-Díez; Virginia Blanco-Mazagatos; Inigo Garcia-Rodriguez; M. Elena Romero-Merino Purpose This study aims to evaluate changes in the presence of women on Spanish boards after the Unified Good Governance Code of Listed Companies (2006) and the Organic Law 3/2007 on Gender Equality...

... 04 2022 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Work-life balance Work Women Management Female executives In recent decades, the relationship between work and other spheres of life has been a topic of interest...

... of 3,125 Kickstarter crowdfunding campaigns launched by women between 2014 and 2019, this study uses the latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) topic model to investigate female founders’ digital identities and explore their impacts on crowdfunding performance via logistic and Tobit regression analyses...