Essays about: "Career Advancement Gender Equality"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words Career Advancement Gender Equality.

1. 1. Gendered Career : A Case Study of Women and Career Advancement

   University essay from KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)

   Author : Isabella Davéus; Wilma Schening; [2023]
   Keywords : Career; Career Advancement Gender Equality; Organizations; Women.; Karriär; Karriärsutveckling; Jämställdhet; Organisation; Kvinnor.;

   Abstract : The manufacturing industry has reported gender equality issues, both in relation to the underrepresentation of female employees within the industry as a whole and in managerial positions as well as the abindant existence of gendered roles and stereotypes. As a result of gender inequalities, women employees face difficulties advancing in their career. READ MORE

3. 2. Women’s Careers: Challenges and Opportunities in the Swedish Energy Industry

   University essay from KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)

   Author : Elsa Francke; Hanna Kakavandy; [2022]
   Keywords : Gender Equality; Women’s Careers; Challenge; Opportunity; Discrimination; Social Sustainability; Energy Industry; Sweden.; Jämställdhet; Kvinnors karriärer; Utmaning; Möjlighet; Diskriminering; Social hållbarhet; Energibranschen; Sverige;

   Abstract : Practices to promote gender equality and equal opportunities for men and women have become an important part of many organizations' agenda. However, women are still experiencing challenges in career advancement to a larger extent than men. This is due to structural, cultural and societal factors and other types of discrimination against women. READ MORE

4. 3. Revealing the Ceiling: A critical exploration of the barriers to female career advancement and how organizations can help overcome these by gender equality work

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning

   Author : My Persson; [2020]
   Keywords : gender in organizations; glass ceiling; barriers to female career advancement; gender equality work; critical discourse analysis;

   Abstract : Women are underrepresented in organizations at large, especially at the top. Despite an increase in research about, and motives for studying, gender in organizations, there is a lack of qualitative studies about how organizations can do gender equality work (GEW) to overcome the barriers to female career advancement. READ MORE

5. 4. Exclusion and inclusion of women by corporate cultural processes : A case study in the IT and finance industries

   University essay from KTH/Organisation och ledning

   Author : ERIC MUGISHA; FREDRIKA OLSSON; [2015]
   Keywords : Gender; cultural constituents; cultural exclusion; cultural inclusion; female manager; finance industry; IT- industry; career advancement.;

   Abstract : This Master thesis investigates how cultural processes exclude, or might include, women from the corporate culture as well as how the cultural processes could impact the women’s abilities to career advancement within an organization that operates in the financial and IT industries. Previous studies have provided knowledge about culture and gender relations within the financial (Rutherford, 2001; Renemark, 2007) and IT-sectors (Davies and Mathieu, 2005: 12-22) respectively, but there is a lack of studies of financial service organizations in Sweden that operates in both these industries. READ MORE

6. 5. Shattering the glass ceiling in academia : a comparative study of the differences in how women advance and reach leadership positions in the academic world in Sweden versus women in the US.

   University essay from Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle

   Author : Meis Kadhem; Mahzad Khalili; [2013]
   Keywords : Women; Globalization; Leadership; Academia; Culture; Sweden; USA Career Advancement.;

   Abstract : This study tried to emphasize the differences between Sweden and the US when it comes to women’s career advancement to leading positions within the academic world. The differences between the countries were examined by studying women in leadership positions in universities in both countries. READ MORE