Gender in Management: Volume 31 Issue 3

“Wasta” and women’s careers in the Arab Gulf States

Jouharah M. Abalkhail, Barbara Allan

Women are under-represented in senior positions across the world, and this paper aims to explore the impact of wasta on women’s careers in the Arab Gulf States. This paper has two…

How women traverse an upward journey in Indian industry: multiple case studies

Sonam Chawla, Radha R. Sharma

The purpose of this paper is to present multiple case studies of women in leadership roles in India with a view to identifying inhibitors, facilitators and the strategies adopted…

Capital factors and rural women entrepreneurship development: A perspective of Manipur state, India

Chonnatcha Kungwansupaphan, Jibon Kumar Sharma Leihaothabam

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the roles of four specific capital factors, namely, human, social, institutional and financial capitals, in rural women…

Gender wage differential in private and public sector employment: A distributional analysis for Mauritius

Verena Tandrayen-Ragoobur, Rajeev Pydayya

This paper aims to analyse the magnitude of the gender wage disparity in the public and private sectors in Mauritius across both mean differentials and overall wage distribution…