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A case study of women academics' views on equal opportunities, career prospects and work‐family conflicts in a British university
In: Women in management review, Band 15, Heft 7, S. 316-330
ISSN: 1758-7182
This paper reports on the views that women academics have about their career prospects, equal opportunities and the conflicts they experience between their work and personal lives in one UK university. The university in question has formal equal opportunities policies and gender monitoring systems in place. However, very few women have progressed into senior academic roles. They continue to be handicapped by well‐ingrained structural and cultural barriers and by promotion systems that still largely rely on the publication records of candidates for appointments and promotions. But this is only half the story. Some of the women we interviewed reported that they had opted to put their careers on hold because of domestic and family responsibilities. A few have resigned themselves to never achieving senior positions because of these commitments. The wider implications of these findings are discussed, including the possible effects that this will have on recruiting women graduates into careers in higher education in the future.
The myth of the 'international manager'
In: International journal of human resource management, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 126-142
ISSN: 1466-4399
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In: International journal of human resource management, Band 8, Heft 2, S. 244-248
ISSN: 1466-4399
'The persistent myth of high expatriate failure rates': a reappraisal
In: International journal of human resource management, Band 8, Heft 4, S. 414-433
ISSN: 1466-4399
The forgotten employees? The experiences of expatriate staff returning to the UK
In: International journal of human resource management, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 405-425
ISSN: 1466-4399
Book Reviews
In: International journal of human resource management, Band 4, Heft 4, S. 990-992
ISSN: 1466-4399
International managers and mobile families: the professional and personal dynamics of trans-national career pathing and job mobility in the 1990s
In: International journal of human resource management, Band 3, Heft 3, S. 605-624
ISSN: 1466-4399
Book Reviews
In: Sociology: the journal of the British Sociological Association, Band 20, Heft 4, S. 644-645
ISSN: 1469-8684
Expatriate management policies in UK companies new to the international scene
In: International journal of human resource management, Band 7, Heft 1, S. 177-205
ISSN: 1466-4399
An exploratory study of the under‐representation of Emirate women in the United Arab Emirates' information technology sector
In: Equality, diversity and inclusion: an international journal, Band 30, Heft 7, S. 544-562
ISSN: 2040-7157
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to describe the principal reasons why Emirate women are under‐represented in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) information technology (IT) sector; and the barriers and challenges that national women have encountered while working in this sector of the national economy.Design/methodology/approachThe paper draws on data from 20 structured in‐depth interviews conducted with Emirate women who had worked for a minimum of five years in IT.FindingsAlthough national women have made remarkable inroads into almost all professions and occupations in recent years, they are still noticeably under‐represented in IT, particularly in the private sector. In addition, very few are in senior‐level positions and there are, at the time of writing, no Emirate women technology‐entrepreneurs. The results show that cultural and familial factors still inhibit many young Emirate women from choosing careers in this profession, and negative gendered attitudinal assumptions about women are still prevalent within the local IT sector.Research limitations/implicationsThe sample size was small, so we were unable to test specific research hypotheses, or compare our results with quantitative cohort surveys conducted in other countries. Nevertheless, the findings warrant additional research, as increasing numbers of Emirate women graduate from local universities with IT/MIS degrees, and further research on this topic is described.Practical implicationsFive practical strategies are identified to encourage more young Emirate women to embrace IT careers in the future.Originality/valueThis is the first research on this issue conducted in the UAE/GCC region.