The Female and the Male Professional: Gender, Career and Expatriation Interfaces in Trajectory for Female Expatriates by Aline Mendonça Fraga, Elaine Di Diego Antunes, Sidinei Rocha-de-Oliveira

“…This research aims to analyze the construction of the career trajectories of 19 Brazilian expatriate women, using as conceptual bases the interfaces of gender, career, and expatriation. …”
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Resignifying the Unexpected: Career Shocks and its Impacts on the Trajectories of Executive Women by Anna Paula Visentini, Camila Vieira Müller, Angela Beatriz Scheffer

“…Career shocks are extraordinary, unforeseen events that lead to individual reflections on personal and professional directions. …”
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Career Growth for Uganda’s Women and Girls in Sciences, the Challenges, Opportunities and Experiences by Nyadoi, Priscilla, Mbabazi, Fulgensia Kamugisha, Nachuha,Sarah, Thomson ,Jennifer

“…Chapter two reports on a panel discussion, while chapter three presents personal experiences of women and girls in sciences at different stages of their professional career growth. …”
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Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Mentoring as Support for African Women’s Academic Career Trajectories by Renitha Rampersad

“…Finally, the article suggests a participative model of collaboration, nurturance, compassion, and self-care to equip women with the tools they need to create career advancement opportunities and increase personal and professional change. …”
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The Impact of Benevolent Sexism on Women’s Career Growth: A Moderated Serial Mediation Model by Shuang Song, Po-Chien Chang

“…Higher levels of career development strategies lessen the detrimental impact of benevolent sexism on women’s professional progress. …”
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Professional Experiences, Leadership Growth, and Progression Approaches Adopted by Women Working Within Professional Sports Organisations in Ghana by Abena Adasa Nkrumah, Daniel Apaak, Stephen Kyenkyehene Addae

“… The study explored experiences, leadership growth, and progression approaches adopted by women working within higher professional sports leadership organisations in Ghana. …”
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A Woman in the Man’s Culture of Engineering Education by L. N. Bannikova, E. V. Kemmet

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GHANAIAN CONSTRUCTION PROFESSIONALS’ PERCEPTION ON CHALLENGES TO FEMALE RETENTION IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY by J Ayarkwa, K Agyekum, A Acheampong

“…Professional associations and regulatory bodies should use strategies such as mentoring, increase in role models, eliminating gender bias factors, giving career guidance, and increasing construction higher education to attract and retain professional women in the industry. …”
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Career Adaptability and Career Construction as Mediating Variables Between Hardiness and Vocational Identity by Enrique Merino-Tejedor, María José Serrano-Fernández, Maria Boada-Cuerva, Beatriz Sora

“…This study tested the adaptation model proposed by Career Construction Theory. Consolidation of vocational identity is particularly important at the university stage, in which people decide their first steps about their professional future.  …”
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Mentoring women in STEM: empowering through social technologies for enhanced inclusivity and professional growth. A case study by Coral J. Pacheco Figueroa, Mayra A. Alvarez Lemus

“…Here, a case study on the implementation of a mentoring program focused on fostering the professional careers of women from the Juarez Autonomous University of Tabasco (UJAT), at the southeast of Mexico is presented. …”
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Exploring the well-being of professional female musicians: a self-determination theory perspective by Laurence Perrier, Laurence Latreille-Gagné, Florence Khoriaty, Maude Fortin, Arielle Bonneville-Roussy

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Being and becoming third-space professionals: a case study from low-and-middle income countries by Azra Naseem, Jannat Karim Khan, Tashmin Khamis, Jane Rarieya

“…Using autoethnography, the authors reflect on their experiences to identify issues, strategies, and areas for further development regarding third-space professionals’ identities, particularly with regard to women. …”
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The feminisation of medical careers in Brazil and work-family conflict by Daniela Cristina Machado Tameirão, Simone Costa Nunes

“…This study focused on comparing gender-related perspectives on the occurrence of work-family conflicts and their antecedents in the context of Brazilian medical professionals’ careers. The results indicate that, the greater the stressors present at work or within the family, the greater the level of conflict tends to be, but, the greater the social support in these two spheres, the lesser the conflict is likely to be. …”
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Métamorphoses et permanences des parcours professionnels en France (1968-2018) by Marion Plault

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Minority Narratives: The Voices of Women Architects from the School of Madrid in Early Democratic Spain (1975-1982) by Josenia Hervás y Heras, Eva Hurtado Torán

“…This paper aims to expose, through the chronological sequence of their graduation—initially in a testimonial and isolated manner and later forming small networks—how their professional careers developed. This chronological approach, as well as a study of their links from a series of conversations with several women architects that studied and/or set their practice during the years of the democratic transition allows us to conclude that they were not only pioneers but also role models and mentors to each other. …”
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Education of women entrepreneurs by Mateja Vadnjal, Jaka Vadnjal

“…We assume that there are significant differences among women entrepreneurs at different stages of their lives, in the Early Career and Idealistic Achievement phase, Mid-Career or phase of Pragmatic Endurance, and thirdly, Advanced Career or Reinvention and Recontribution phase. …”
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A Reformulation of the Dual Career Conceptual Model for Analysis in an Organizational Scope: Revealing new Aspects by Heliani Berlato, Karen Florencio Corrêa

“…Couples who live a dual career, in general, are characterized by their continuing professional engagement and their desire for personal growth together. …”
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Gender stereotypes and professional experiences of female nurses in Türkiye by Zeynep Aca, Arzu Kırcal-Şahin, Akın Özdemir, Yavuz Selim Kaymakcı

“…In Türkiye, patriarchal norms and systemic disparities exacerbate these workplace challenges, particularly for female nurses.MethodsThis qualitative study utilized semi-structured interviews with 13 female nurses working in intensive care units to examine the influence of societal expectations, workplace discrimination, and institutional policies on gender inequities in nursing.ResultsThe findings reveal that cultural norms, family influence, and constrained career planning often channel women into nursing, reinforcing perceptions of the profession as an extension of caregiving roles. …”
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An empirical study of the glass ceiling’s impact on gen-der equality and career opportunities in the food and beverage sector by Jelena Lukić Nikolić, Pero Labus

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Women in Working Life and Overview of Studies on This Theme with “Glass Ceiling” Concept by Ebru Çitil

“…These studies have shown that the ‘glass ceiling’ effect makes its presence felt in organizations that are actively present in professional working life all over the world. The results obtained from these studies also reveal that this situation negatively affects the careers of female employees and brings about important problems in their daily working lives.…”
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