Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to reviews recent literature on women at work, through an analysis of existing literature, in order to identify factors that contribute to the success of women managers in their careers. This study is based on an extensive review of past research on career success. To conduct the literature review, keywords such as career success, job flexibility, family culture, networking and career success among women managers. Besides that, the ideas of this study arranged according to the year which are from 1988-2019. The paper offers a number of propositions which explains the proposed model of career success among women managers. Future research is recommended to test and validate the framework to provide empirical evidence. The paper yields a new approach in theorizing career success among women managers by integrating the social capital theory and social cognitive career theory. Upon model validation, the paper can offer practical interventions for human resource development (HRD) managers to help women managers in managing the career success.
Highlights
Women workforce has increase remarkably as compared to male workforce across the globe
From the 120 articles, 20 articles were from job flexibility and career success among women managers, 18 articles were from family culture and career success among women managers, 25 articles were from network support and career success among women managers, 40 articles were from mentoring and career success among women managers and the remaining was on articles from career success among women managers
The framework of this study indicates that career success factors affect career success directly
Summary
Women workforce has increase remarkably as compared to male workforce across the globe. According to International Labour Organization (2020) female labour force participation rate worldwide is 52.47 per cent in 2019. This shows that women are entering into the working world as men. Even though the graph portraying number of women participations in workforce keep moving upwardly, their representation at management level are still low in the organizations. This phenomenon gained a lot of attention and given rise to public discussion in Malaysia and worldwide (Eurostat, 2018). Statistics shows that corporate hierarchy is inversely related to number of women workforce at the top management (Eurostat, 2018).
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