Gender in Management: Volume 37 Issue 8

Aspirations to top management over five decades: a shifting role of gender?

Gary N. Powell, D. Anthony Butterfield

The purpose of this study is to examine linkages of gender and gender-related variables to aspirations to top management over a period spanning five decades.

Jordanian women expatriates: additional challenges for global equality

Rania Elkouz, Maria Bastida, Rola El-Husseini

The purpose of this study is to address the main reasons that limit Jordanian women from undertaking expatriation, based on the assumption that Arab women’s opportunities for…

A systematic review of women’s entrepreneurship in the sports industry: has anything changed?

Carla Costa, Dina Alexandra Marques Miragaia

Gender equity in entrepreneurship has been a global issue in several areas, and the sports context is no exception. Therefore, the present study aims to carry out a systematic…

Aspiring and inspiring: the role of women in educational leadership

Mercedes Mareque, Elena de Prada, Margarita Pino Juste

This study aims to delve deep into the differences observed in leadership acquisition and development between men and women and analyse the impact of certain extra-curricular…

Shedding light on the gender quota law debate: board members’ profiles before and after legally binding quotas in Portugal

Sara Falcão Casaca, Maria João Guedes, Susana Ramalho Marques, Nuno Paço

This study aims to provide a comparative portrait of the profile of men and women in the boardrooms of listed companies (Euronext Lisbon, Portugal) during the first stage of the…

How gender moderates the mediating mechanism across social experience, self-referent beliefs and social entrepreneurship intentions

Eun-Jeong Ko, Jiyun Kang

This study aims to understand how social experience influences social entrepreneurial (SE) intentions through different types of self-referent beliefs and how gender affects this…

To lead or not to lead: exploring how young women’s early career experiences impact their leadership ambition

Jean G. Beaupre

This paper aims to explore and better understand the workplace experiences of young professional women, as they relate to their leadership ambition. Research has shown that women…