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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A Woman in the Man’s Culture of Engineering Education by L. N. Bannikova, E. V. Kemmet

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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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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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Unveiling the obstacles encountered by women doctors in the Pakistani healthcare system: A qualitative investigation. by Ali Raza, Junaimah Jauhar, Noor Fareen Abdul Rahim, Ubedullah Memon, Sheema Matloob

“…The prevailing societal system upholds the influence of in-laws and a husband for women doctor professional employment. As a result, severe work-life conflict was reported where most women doctors ended up in their profession in the middle of struggling between socially rooted gender roles as homemakers and their professional careers-furthermore, the study found various workplace issues that posit an additional burden on already struggling women doctors. …”
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Au-delà de la vocation artistique : un recrutement sexuellement différencié des candidat-e-s à une carrière de plasticien-ne ? by Mathilde Provansal

“…Observing the admission oral exam to the École des Arts Plastiques reveals the criteria used by jury members to decide between those who can attempt an artistic career and outsiders. We show that women face gendered representations. …”
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Architectures and Spaces for Care: Recent Contributions to Spanish Postmodern Architectural Culture Led by Women Architects by Maria Isabel Alba Dorado

“…With regard to the Spanish architectural scene, since the end of the 20th century it has been possible to observe the emergence of a series of professional practices led by women architects that have used the concept of femininity as a creative argument in an effort to approach the profession from different perspectives and open up new areas of activity and debate within which they are free to develop their professional careers. …”
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Designing and explaining the improvement model of women's employability capacity with emphasis on the 7th development plan by Mahsa Vahidpour, Akbar Etebarian Khorasgani, Mehrban Hadi Peykani, Saeed Daei-Karimzadeh

“…Women often face barriers to employment and career advancement, including limited access to education and training, discriminatory hiring practices, and unequal payment. …”
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Women Architects and Social Housing in the Basque Country (1978-2008). An Approach from a Feminist Perspective by Olatz Ocerin-Ibáñez, Itziar Rodríguez-Oyarbide

“…In 1978, after two decades in the profession, Mendizábal designed a project to build a hundred social housing units in Madrid, in fact, the largest social housing project that she developed during her professional career. Until the early seventies there is no woman working as freelance architect in the Basque Country. …”
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