Women in Management Review: Volume 14 Issue 5

Are families a career liability?

Ronald Burke

This study examined the effects of marital and parental status on a number of work and psychological well‐being measures. Data were collected from 792 women graduates of a single…

Designing organizational solutions to integrate work and life

Paula Rayman, Lotte Bailyn, Jillian Dickert, Françoise Carré, Maureen Harvey, Robert Krim, Robert Read

In September 1996, Fleet Financial Group and the Radcliffe Public Policy Institute undertook a one‐year pilot project addressing a “dual agenda” – reexamining work processes to…

Flexibility initiatives: current approaches and effective strategies

Marcia Brumit Kropf

This article describes findings from a series of recent Catalyst studies. Several of these studies investigated the use of flexible work arrangements in business, exploring…

The work/family interface at Royal Bank Financial Group: successful solutions – a retrospective look at lessons learned

Norma Tombari, Nora Spinks

This retrospective analysis of the development of work‐family‐life and flexibility initiatives at Royal Bank Financial Group (RBFG) examines the factors that lead to success…

Waiting for outcomes: anchoring a dual agenda for change to cultural assumptions

Deborah M. Kolb, Deborah Merrill‐Sands

This article argues that strategies to promote gender equity in organizations need to focus on assumptions in the organizational culture that underpin work practices and…