Women in Management Review: Volume 7 Issue 5

CAREER PATHS IN TRADITIONAL WOMEN’S JOBS: A COMPARISON OF SECRETARIAL PROMOTION PROSPECTS IN ENGLAND, FRANCE AND GERMANY

Catherine Truss, Robert Goffee, Gareth Jones

It has been argued that gender segregation within the labour marketleads to women being overrepresented in a narrow range of jobs thatoffer limited promotion prospects. Presents…

WORK AND FAMILY: ISSUES FOR THE 1990S

Lisa Young, Brian H. Kleiner

As an increasing number of women enter the workforce, thetraditional boundaries between work and family become less defined. Thetwo important directions for dealing with this new…

BREAKING THE GLASS CEILING: ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE

Leonie V. Still

Women′s progress up the corporate ladder is still limited by a“glass ceiling” despite the myriad of Government policiesand programmes which have been introduced to ensure that…

SUPPORTING THE CAREER ASPIRATIONS OF MANAGERIAL WOMEN: DESIRED DEVELOPMENTAL OPPORTUNITIES

Carol A. McKeen, Ronald J. Burke

Examines the desirability of 21 different career developmentopportunities for managerial and professional women. Data were collectedfrom 245 women in early career stages using…

LITERACY PROBLEMS AND EMPLOYMENT

John Atkinson

Reports on research conducted for the Employment Service into theproblems faced by people with literacy difficulties in getting a job– even an unskilled job which would require…