Equal Opportunities International: Volume 10 Issue 3/4

Managerial and Professional Women in North America: Problems and Prospects

Karen Korabik, Roya Ayman

Recently, more and more North American women have been choosing to pursue careers in management and the professions. The invasion of women into these once exclusively masculine…

Studying Personnel Decisions about Female Managers: Methodological Considerations

Louis A. Penner, Sandra L. Harris, Jesus M. Llobet, J. Philip Craiger

Women are dramatically under‐represented in upper level managerial positions. Although they comprise about one‐third of all managers and professionals in the work‐force (Hellwig…

Sex Bias in the Evaluation of Women in Management: A Systems Perspective

Kristofer J. Fenlason

Evaluation of an individual's qualifications and performance is an integral part of entering and progressing through the ranks of most organizations. Yet, there are indications…

A Decade of Change for US Woman Managers

Josephine E. Olson, Irene Hanson Frieze

This paper is one of a series of studies they have done on the careers of women and men in management. The large alumni data base used for this paper has allowed this research…

Corporate Responsiveness (and Resistance) to Work‐Family Interdependence in the United States

Mark Maier, Cynthia Thompson, Cher Thomas

The statistics are certainly impressive: over the last two decades, women have made extraordinary advances into the managerial ranks of corporate America. From 1982 to 1983, for…

What Is Needed to Help Women Balance Work and Family Responsibilities?

L.E. Falkenberg, M.L. Monachello, L.C. Edlund

One of the major challenges for managing human resources in the 1990s is to appropriately respond to employees having to manage the dual responsibilities of home and work (Paris…

Executive Women: A Close‐up View of the Corporate Experience

Hazel M. Rosin, Karen Korabik

The entry of significant numbers of women into managerial positions over the past two decades has prompted considerable interest in their experiences and, more recently, in their…

Social Support: The Effects of Gender and Employment for Attorneys and a Community Sample

M. Ellen Mitchell, Roya Ayman

There is clear recognition of the relationship between social support and mental health (e.g., Kessler, & McLeod, 1985; Turner, 1981; Winefield, 1979), general health outcomes…

Factoring Culture into the Women in Management Equation

Kathryn Campbell

The paper makes several linked proposals. First, women in North America have been socialized towards a subculture distinct and separate from the male culture which dominates the…

Executive Management for Women

Allan Cahoon, Julie Rowney

In considering critical areas of human resource development, and upon reviewing the literature on women in management, it became obvious that there was a need for a Management…