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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"successful women"”.
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An Analysis of Major Facilitators to Their Success as Reported by Successful Women Administrators.
… study was designed to review the history of women in leadership and to evaluate the identified facilitators of success for women in leadership positions. Participants were asked to identify the facilitators that they considered important to their success. The facilitators were then compared …
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Work-family interaction strain: coping strategies used by successful women in the public, corporate and self employed sectors of the economy
… was to identify the coping strategies used by successful women in dealing with work-family interaction strain. The study also investigated cognitive appraisal as a key antecedent of coping with a hypothetical description of a work-family interaction strain situation. A survey was conducted with …
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An Enquiry into Dynamics Influencing Successful Women in Managerial Leadership Positions in Manufacturing Organizations: A Competency Development Model to Account for Challenges in Achieving Workplace Accession.
The inclusion of women in managerial leadership positions in the manufacturing industry has great potential to stimulate growth and enhance competitiveness in the face of global difficulties. Manufacturing plays a crucial role in numerous economies, employing a significant section of the labor …
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Understanding Women Leaders in a Male-Dominated Profession: A Study of the United States Marine Corps' Women Generals
… into the underutilized half of the population—women. Yet, the efforts to recruit, develop or retain women has been minimal, leading to metaphors such as glass ceiling and labyrinth, which characterize the institutional, social and personal barriers women encounter when seeking high-level …
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A Study of the Relationship Between Extracurricular Activities and the Success of College Women
… c. predicted GPA and actual GPA, for those CWSC women majors in physical education who met the criteria for inclusion in this study; 2. To determine the magnitude of the effect of predicted GPA upon the correlational relationship between extracurricular participation hours and actual GPA; 3. To …
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Women Leaders in Higher Education: Overcoming Barriers Through Transformational Leadership
… leadership behaviors of a purposeful sample of successful women in private faith-based institutes of higher education. Gender, glass ceiling, mentorship, collaboration, and observation emerged as the four main themes that undergird most barriers to leadership in this context. Using a qualitative …
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Why Use Agent-Based Models To Explore Social Issues? The Case Of Intimate Partner Violence and Social Support Systems
… a major social problem, and while both men and women can be victims of abuse, the percentage of affected women, especially from low-income, immigrant and African-American communities appears to be higher due to structural inequalities. Women from various socio-cultural and economic backgrounds …
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Exploring trajectories of success in research and innovation: a comparative study of women in academic careers in South Africa and Sweden
… study investigates the factors contributing to women's success in academic careers within research and innovation fields, comparing perspectives from South Africa and Sweden. Despite the underrepresentation of women in higher academic ranks and as knowledge producers, some have managed to break …
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Women's Success in Science: The Role of Self -Efficacy and Resiliency in Building Social Capital
The experiences of seven women pursuing undergraduate degrees in atmospheric sciences are examined through lenses constructed from social science theories of self-efficacy, resiliency and social capital. Each of the women successfully earned a Bachelor's degree in atmospheric sciences in spite of …
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Exploring factors that sustain succesful women-owned informal micro businesses in the Western Cape
The study explored factors that sustain successful women-owned informal micro businesses. This explorative qualitative study was conducted in Cape Town in the communities of Philippi and Khayelitsha. Face- to- face in-depth interviewing was carried out on a purposive sample of sixteen women-owned …
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The Last WACs : A Case Study Of Women In Leadership Focusing On Women In The Last Direct Commissioning Class Of The Women's Army Corps
… the glass ceiling affected a unique population – women Army officers. The women Army officers in this study joined the service during the post Vietnam era, just as women were being integrated into the Army as full and equal partners with their male counterparts. None of the women from the last …
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Attitudes Toward Women as Administrators in the Des Moines, Iowa Public Schools
… problem. In a profession dominated in numbers by women, few women find their way to the top. There are relatively few women in positions of leadership or administration in education. The purpose of this study was to determine the attitudes of the school related community toward women as …
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An interpretive exploration of under-representation of women executive directors in UK FTSE-100 companies
… gender diversity in the workplace. Despite this, women’s representation in the UK corporate world is not at the level where the society would like to see it today. A disproportionate number of initiatives and prior research studies have focused on tackling the issue of women’s under-representation …
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Walking backwards in high heels: narratives of women’s (non)representation in corporate leadership in the UK and Germany
This thesis compares contemporary discourses on women and corporate leadership in Germany and the UK, examining scholarly and popular accounts. It identifies and interrogates five culturally hegemonic stories that circulate in business, academia and the public sphere: first, the story that men and …