Career inhibitors and career enablers for executive women

Nuria Chinchilla (), Consuelo Leon, Elizabeth Torres and Miguel A. Canela
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Nuria Chinchilla: IESE Business School, Postal: Research Division, Av Pearson 21, 08034 Barcelona, SPAIN
Consuelo Leon: IESE Business School, Postal: Research Division, Av Pearson 21, 08034 Barcelona, SPAIN
Elizabeth Torres: IESE Business School, Postal: Research Division, Av Pearson 21, 08034 Barcelona, SPAIN
Miguel A. Canela: Universitat de Barcelona

No D/632, IESE Research Papers from IESE Business School

Abstract: This paper is intended to contribute to the study of career inhibitors and career enablers for women. The analysis is based on data obtained from a survey conducted by the International Center of Work and Family at IESE Business School. The main conclusions of the analysis are: - Women have readier access to general management posts in small companies. - The feeling of working a "double work day" is widespread among women managers, especially in large companies. - Lack of sympathy on the part of colleagues and superiors when women give priority to their family responsibilities undermines women managers' satisfaction with their professional life. - The main career inhibitor is corporate culture (the "glass ceiling"). - The importance that executive women ascribe to career inhibitors decreases with age and professional rank. - The average woman manager's main support is her husband, who in most cases is also a manager. - The principal career enablers are: motivation, training, mental strength and value system.

Keywords: top management; career; family; women (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 2006-05-27, Revised 2006-05-30
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