Women in the New World of Careers

Abstract

The ways people build their careers have changed and evolved where moves across domains, locations, and organizations have become common and the proportion of nonstandard workers continues to grow. This change in how people pursue their careers has opened several interesting and important avenues of inquiry; yet, we have relatively little knowledge on how these changes have affected women and their pursuit to advance their careers. In this symposium, we compile four different empirical studies using different contexts and methods to shed light on how the new world of careers changed women’s careers. Left but Not Forgotten: Gender Differences in Networks and Performance Following Mobility Presenter: Evelyn Ying Zhang; Frankfurt School of Finance & Management Presenter: Brandy Aven; Carnegie Mellon U. Presenter: Adam M. Kleinbaum; Dartmouth College Career Distinctiveness and Financial Crisis Experiences Presenter: Wooseok Jung; HEC Paris Presenter: Roxana Barbulescu; HEC Paris Gender-Based Selection in Executive Hiring: New Evidence from Executive Search Data Presenter: Shinjae Won; U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Glass Wall and the Gendered Evaluation of Role Expansion in Freelancing Career Presenter: Yonghoon Lee; Hong Kong U. of Science and Technology Presenter: Christy Zhou Koval; Eli Broad School of Business, Michigan State U. Presenter: Sol Jee Susie Lee; Hong Kong U. of Science and Technology