Purpose – While the question regarding the low numbers of senior female managers has been posed for decades, it is of particular significance in the Irish context, as a result of the emergence of the Celtic Tiger and the associated rise in female labour force participation. This paper aims to...

Purpose - This paper investigates the perceptions of female middle-level managers in relation to the influence role models have on their career progression in order to more fully comprehend the under-representation of women at the highest organisational levels. Methodology/Approach - This paper...

Purpose of this paper: This paper sets out to examine the experiences of female managers in order to enhance our understanding of why there is a relative scarcity of senior female managers in one of the newest sectors of the Irish economy, the high-tech sector. Because this sector has...

The dearth of women in senior management positions across the globe has been the subject of much debate and research in recent years; the question as to why there are so few senior female managers has been posed for over two decades (cf Singh and Vinnicombe, 2004; Wirth, 2001; Linehan and Scullion, 2001;...