WOW.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Women in the workforce - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_workforce

    Women find themselves experiencing the concept of "doing gender", especially in a traditional masculine occupation. Women's standpoint of men's behavior sheds light on mobilizing masculinity. With the feminist standpoint view of gender in the workplace, men's gender is an advantage, whereas women's is a handicap.

  3. Double burden - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_burden

    Men and women are even found at different levels of the occupational hierarchy. The "glass ceiling" is the relative absence of women in senior or managerial positions due to institutional barriers and norms. Even in female-dominated occupations, men often occupy the more skilled and better paid positions.

  4. Women in South Korea - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_South_Korea

    A study was conducted to justify the Work-Family Conflict scale (WFC) revised and developed by Ginamon and Rich for married working women in Korea. The work-family conflict measure considered both directions, "work to a family," and "family to a work," to better understand the various roles of women in the work-family domain.

  5. Mommy track - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mommy_track

    e. A mommy track is a path in a woman's life that puts priority to being a mother. [1] It can also specifically refer to work arrangements for women in the workforce that facilitate motherhood, such as flexible hours, but at the same time usually provides fewer opportunities for career advancement. [2] [3] References to the mommy track often go ...

  6. Stained-glass ceiling - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stained-glass_ceiling

    The stained-glass ceiling is a sociological phenomenon in religious communities similar to the concept of the "glass ceiling". This concept revolves around the apparent difficulty for women who seek to gain a role within church leadership. The use of the term "stained-glass ceiling" is metaphorical, indicating a certain level of power or ...

  7. Women in Trinidad and Tobago - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Trinidad_and_Tobago

    e. Women in Trinidad and Tobago are women who were born in, who live in, or are from Trinidad and Tobago. Depending from which island the women came, they may also be called Trinidadian women or Tobagonian women respectively. [3] Women in Trinidad and Tobago excel in various industries and occupations, including micro-enterprise owners ...

  8. Glass cliff - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_cliff

    v. t. e. The glass cliff is a hypothesized phenomenon in which women are more likely to break the "glass ceiling" (i.e. achieve leadership roles in business and government) during periods of crisis or downturn when the risk of failure is highest.

  9. Feminisation of the workplace - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminisation_of_the_workplace

    Women face discrimination in the workplace, such as the “glass ceiling,” although female participation in the labor market has increased markedly during the past twenty years. However, even with increased participation in the labor force and the high levels of commitment that women give to their workplace, women's work is still undervalued ...