Purpose – The aim of this paper is to investigate the symbolic meaning attributed by women in academia to workplace artifacts. Design/methodology/approach – The research approach is that of auto-ethnography, whereby the authors, as researchers and participants, explore symbolic meaning from...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate career choices by female graduates from science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) to determine factors that influenced their entry, abandonment or persistence of STEM careers. Design/methodology/approach: Life history narratives...