Equal Opportunities International: Volume 6 Issue 4

Women in Scientific Professions: The Emerging Trends

Sarla Sharma

A brief historical account of women in science is given as introduction to discussion of their present situation in the USA. Factors affecting female achievement and interest in…

Success Patterns of Professional Women: A Study of 452 Women Architects

James D. Boulgarides

This is a report on a survey investigating the work and backgrounds of women architects in order to identify factors influencing success, as measured by salary and…

The Challenge of becoming a Professional Chartered Accountant and a Mother in early adulthood

Francine Harel‐Giasson, Marie‐Francoise Marchis‐Mouren, Louise Martel

This study comprised interviews with 60 women chartered accountants in Quebec. It revealed their strong professional identity, strategies for reconciling family and career at the…

Women Engineers : Conditions at University and in the Profession in West Germany

Hedwig Rudolph, Doris Janshen, Doris Janshen, Hedwig Rudolph

This research attempted to provide a scholarly answer to why so few West German women choose engineering as a profession. The study was qualitative: 100 biographically structured…