Gender in Management: Volume 36 Issue 2

Career calling: women STEM graduates in the United Arab Emirates

Linzi J. Kemp, Norita Ahmad, Lucia Pappalardo, Alison Williams

The purpose of this study is to investigate career choices by female graduates from science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) to determine factors that influenced…

Managerial aspiration: do gender and gender role identity make a difference in the Chinese context?

Ruijuan Zhang, Shaoping Qiu, Larry M. Dooley, Tamim Choudhury

The purpose of this study is to explore how gender and gender role identity separately and jointly affect managerial aspirations.

Two Englands? Blokishness, masculine habitus and the North-South divide in the advertising industry

Martina Topić

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the position of women in the advertising industry with the lens of organisational theory and Bourdieuian concept of habitus, to explore…

A motivational theory perspective on entrepreneurial intentions: a gender comparative study

Muhammad Arshad, Mariam Farooq, Muhammad Atif, Omer Farooq

This study aims to analyze individuals’ entrepreneurial intentions from the perspective of motivational theory and examines the effects of intrinsic and extrinsic factors on…

Work–family policies and the transformation triangle: women, organizational culture and managerial strategy

Salomé Goñi, Pilar Corredor, Consuelo León

This research addresses how companies develop a process of transformation to a more family responsible behaviour and the role that women play in this process. This paper aims to…

An institutional approach to the SHE’-E-O plight: evidence from organizational legitimacy and SHE’-E-O dismissal

Ying Zhang, Morgan X. Yang

This paper aims to examine how regulatory legitimacy and moral legitimacy influence biased performance evaluations on female chief executive officers’ (CEOs) dismissal.

How traditional gender roles hurt both women and men: negative processes and outcomes in mixed-gender negotiations

Tuvana Rua, Zeynep Aytug, Nastaran Simarasl, Lianlian Lin

Based on the social role theory, role congruity theory and gender role conflict theory, this paper aims to investigate the mediating role of “relationship conflict” in the…

Corporate lawyers in the USA: pathway to gender parity?

Alicia R. Ingersoll, Christy Glass, Alison Cook

The current study aims to analyze the connection between gender disparities and employment in senior legal roles within large American firms. Specifically, this study seeks to…