 Is Feminism a Silver Bullet to Shatter African Glass Ceiling? An Examination of the Mediating Role of Financial WellbeingHailemariam Kebede Gelgile and Amit Shukla Business Perspectives and Research, 2025, vol. 13, issue 4, 561-574 Abstract: The idea of feminism advocates social, political, economic, and intellectual equality for women and men. In the organizational context, particularly in Africa, there is a dearth of studies probing the implications of feminism toward shattering of the proverbial glass-ceiling that women face every day. The present article is aimed to address this gap. It investigates the role of feminism in promoting women’s career advancement through financial wellbeing. The study deploys a sample of 250 women working in the four breweries in the Addis Ababa area, Ethiopia. The findings confirmed our hypotheses that feminism was a strong predictor for women’s career success and that financial wellbeing acted as a mediator between the two. As a major implication, the study highlights the positive role of feminism for women’s career success, while underlining the importance of financial wellbeing for them. It assumes particular significance considering prevalent misgivings about these concepts in Ethiopian society. The study also provides certain recommendations for future researchers and policymakers. Keywords: Career success; African women; financial wellbeing; feminism; glass ceiling; feminist behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:busper:v:13:y:2025:i:4:p:561-574 DOI: 10.1177/22785337221148279 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Business Perspectives and Research |
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