Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate female and male constructs of leadership and empowerment. Design … concept of empowerment, which is central to the notion of transformational leadership and fast becoming the organizational … “buzz” word. Less obvious, and of particular concern are the observations that empowerment, like so many other values, is a …

Purpose This paper aims to form an empirical study, stemming from a Middle-Eastern context, on eliminating gender … discrimination and achieving women’s empowerment. It aims to develop a conceptual model on the principal social and cultural factors … transformational. Moreover, it examines the comparability and divergence of the accumulated data on the empowerment of Emirati women in …

's entrepreneurship related to small medium enterprises (SMEs) particularly in Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia. It also attempts …, desire, motivations and problems of women entrepreneurs in Ethiopia by an extensive review of the existing literature. The … entrepreneurship in Ethiopia. No such studies have been undertaken in the past that assess the women entrepreneur in the context of …

Purpose – The purpose of this exploratory paper is to theorise and examine gender differences in the impact of …

/methodology/approach This study includes a review of data on the gender gap across Middle East/North Africa (MENA) countries, comparison with … world in closing the gender gap, but progress among Gulf Cooperation Council countries has been fairly rapid. Many Gulf … different, but strengths and weaknesses by gender balance out, so that men and women perform about the same. Traditional Kuwaiti …

diversity in thinking about gender in management and welcomes papers from all academic disciplines which can contribute to …