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Senior Women (senior + woman)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting	33%

Selected Abstracts

Entering the Twilight Zone: The Local Complexities of Pay and Employment Equity in New Zealand

GENDER, WORK & ORGANISATION, Issue 5 2009
Deborah Jones
This article introduces the recent pay and employment equity situation in the New Zealand state sector through a discussion of research carried out for a Pay and Employment Equity Taskforce. It investigates the twilight zone of pay and employment equity , the murky situations where pay and employment equity programmes already exist, but progress for senior women has stalled for no obvious reasons. Qualitative research is necessary to make sense of these complex situations and to complement labour-market level studies. The example used is a study of teachers in New Zealand schools, where a range of complex reasons, including lack of support, gendered job designs and intense workloads, creates a bottleneck for women at senior levels. The authors argue that highly decentralized human resources practices work against progress in equal employment opportunity in the state sector. [source]

The Crafting of Community: Recoupling Discourses of Management and Womanhood

GENDER, WORK & ORGANISATION, Issue 3 2001
Valérie Fournier
The construction of organizations around images of masculinity makes the position of ,women managers' a problematic one which calls for ,remedial work' (Gherardi 1995). Women managers have sought to reconcile their dualistic positions by deploying various individual and collective coping strategies typically articulated within the boundaries of their organizations. In contrast, we research a group of senior women from a British city in the Midlands who attempt to renegotiate their conflicting identities as ,female' and ,senior managers' by creating a collective forum outside their organizations. Through the construction of a ,learning set', they created a space where members could explore their terms of participation, as women and as managers, in their respective work organizations and in the local community. This space was articulated implicitly and explicitly around values typically associated with ,community' (e.g. sharing, support, trust, loyalty), a controversial concept in feminist politics. The article documents the (fragile and contested) processes by which these women mobilize the imagery of community in order to create a safe space where ,remedial work' could be performed. The conclusion stresses the ambivalent effects of the learning set in both reproducing and transgressing gendered positions. [source]

The Importance of Role Models and Demographic Context for Senior Women's Work Identity Development

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT REVIEWS, Issue 3 2010
Ruth H.V. Sealy
The lack of senior female role models continues to be cited as a key barrier to women's career success. Yet there is little academic research into the gendered aspects of role modelling in organizations, or the utility of role models at a senior level. The paper starts with a review of papers examining the construction of role models in organizational settings. This leads to the inclusion of two related areas , organizational demographics as the contextual factor affecting the availability of role models and how they are perceived, and work identity formation as a possible key explanatory factor behind the link between the lack of senior female role models and the lack of career progression to top organizational levels. The literature looking at social theories of identity formation is then considered from a gender perspective. The key gaps identified are that while the behavioural value of role models has been well documented, a better understanding is needed of how gender and organizational demography influence the role modelling process. Importantly, the symbolic value and possibly other values of female role models in the identity construction of senior women require further in-depth investigation. Finally, this review calls for a more integrated approach to the study of role models and work identity formation, pulling together literatures on organizational demography, the cognitive construal of role models and their importance for successful work identity formation in senior women. [source]

Age at first reproduction and economic change in the context of differing kinship ecologies

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN BIOLOGY, Issue 4 2009
Donna L. Leonetti
Kinship systems which tend to be based on ecologies of subsistence also assign differential power, privilege, and control to human connections that present pathways for manipulation of resource access and transfer. They can be used in this way to channel resource concentrations in women and hence their reproductive value. Thus, strategic female life course trade-offs and their timing are likely to be responsive to changing preferences for qualities in women as economic conditions change. Female life histories are studied in two ethnic groups with differing kinship systems in NE India where the competitive market economy is now being felt by most households. Patrilineal Bengali (599 women) practice patrilocal residence with village exogamy and matrilineal Khasi (656 women) follow matrilocal residence with village endogamy, both also normatively preferring three-generation extended households. These households have helpful senior women and significantly greater income. Age at first reproduction (AFR), achieved adult growth (height) and educational level (greater than 6 years or less) are examined in reproductive women, ages 16,50. In both groups, women residing normatively are older at AFR and taller than women residing nonnormatively. More education is also associated with senior women. Thus, normative residence may place a woman in the best reproductive location, and those with higher reproductive and productive potential are often chosen as households face competitive market conditions. In both groups residing in favorable reproductive locations is associated with a faster pace of fertility among women, as well as lower offspring mortality among Khasi, to compensate for a later start. Am. J. Hum. Biol., 2009. © 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source]

Antecedents of subjective age biases among senior women

PSYCHOLOGY & MARKETING, Issue 10 2001
Denis Guiot
From a conceptual framework based on developmental psychology, this research proposes testing an explanatory model of the trend to see oneself as younger, which is characteristic of seniors. The identification of antecedent variables of this tendency suggests a new approach to segmenting the feminine over-50 market in France. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. [source]