Women's Careers in the 21st Century: New Perspectives and Insights

Abstract

Extant literature on women’s careers, work opportunities and experiences has examined diverse individual and contextual factors that enable or hinder their career progression and access to leadership positions. This presenter symposium will provide novel insights and theoretical approaches for understanding women’s careers and leadership experiences in diverse organizational, professional, national and regional contexts. Drawing on five distinct international bodies of empirical data, it develops and extends contemporary theory to inform future social and organizational policy. In line with this year’s AOM theme “bringing the manager back in management”, the symposium will generate critical reflection for gender-inclusive careers, HRM and leadership scholarship, discourse, policy and practice. With a specific focus on incorporating diverse global perspectives and the temporal dimension of careers, the papers each provide insight into women’s career trajectories in different cultural contexts. Moreover, the organizers and presenters come from diverse cultural backgrounds with different scholastic affiliations: Lebanon, France, Switzerland, India, Brussels, Australia, Austria, Greece, and the United States. The collective contribution from the papers is augmented, therefore, by the diversity and complementarity of theoretical lenses applied and their respective research ontologies and epistemologies as well as the institutional and cultural contexts of the presenters and organizers. Finding their way through multiple logics: Female doctors’ leadership careers Presenter: Isabella Scheibmayr; U. of Salzburg Presenter: Astrid Reichel; U. of Salzburg Ongoing Gender Disparity in Corporations: Career and Life Trajectories of Executive Board Members Presenter: Liv Nelson; U. of St. Gallen Women Leaders in India: Career Resilience as a Strategic Career Resource Presenter: Snigdha Pattnaik; - Presenter: Sadhna Dash; XIM U. How fairness experiences at work around maternity leave are linked with career motives of mothers Presenter: Camille Desjardins; PhD Student Presenter: Marion Fortin; U. of Toulouse I, Capitole Gender Disparity in COVID-19 Impacts on Academic Careers: An Agent-Based Model Presenter: Chantal Van Esch; Cal Poly Pomona Presenter: Mai P. Trinh; Arizona State U.