scholarly journals WOMEN CHANGE EVERYTHING

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 744-769 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARY A. YEAGER
Keyword(s):  
Women Professionals ◽  
Business History ◽  
Authorial Intent ◽  
Experiences Of Women ◽  
Shed Light

This address urges a more self-aware business history. It uses autobiographical details and select biographies of literary figures and women professionals to shed light on the subtle and not-so subtle inequalities associated with business and capitalism. The deliberate tease in the title—WOMEN CHANGE EVERYTHING—is intended to convey the power of word placement to change interpretive meaning and significance, and the power of history to modify understanding. Modifiers are key to an appreciation of the constraints and opportunities that have framed the lives and experiences of women in economies and societies. Even footnotes function in this address as modifiers, uncannily revealing sources of authorial intent and inspiration and throwing light on literary and historiographical hierarchies.

Oral History and the Business History of Emerging Markets

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
GEOFFREY JONES ◽  
RACHAEL COMUNALE
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Emerging Markets ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Business History ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
Sensitive Topics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Shed Light

This article highlights the benefits that rigorous use of oral history can offer to research on the contemporary business history of emerging markets. Oral history can help fill some of the major information voids arising from the absence of a strong tradition of creating and making accessible corporate archives in most countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. It also permits a level of nuance that is hard to obtain even if written archives are accessible. Oral histories provide insights into why events did not occur, and why companies have chosen certain industries over others. Oral history can also shed light on hyper-sensitive topics, such corruption, which are rarely formally documented.

Turkey’s Small Capital, A Player from the Start: Relations with the State and Big Capital

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-108
Author(s):  
EMRE BALIKÇI
Keyword(s):  
State Policies ◽  
The State ◽  
Early History ◽  
Business History ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
State Involvement ◽  
History Of ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Shed Light

This article aims to shed light on the early history of small-scale capital in Turkey. Turkey’s paradigm of development in the 1960s and 1970s, as in other belatedly industrializing countries, meant active state involvement, generally in favor of big capital. This emphasis on the large players has caused small capital’s influence on the era’s state policies to be largely overlooked. This article argues that small capital, popularized in the 1990s with the concept “Anatolian capital,” has deeper roots in Turkish economic and business history than formerly thought.

Meaning and Identity Implications of Age 30: Experiences of Women Professionals from India

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-111
Author(s):  
Supriya Rakesh
Keyword(s):  
Family Conflict ◽  
Women Professionals ◽  
Work Family Conflict ◽  
Diversity And Inclusion ◽  
Opt Out ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Employed Women ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Experiences Of Women

Age is an important aspect that influences women’s career choices and identities. For employed women, age 30 is often associated with gendered discourses around reproductive time-lines, work–family conflict, stalling of careers or ‘opt-out’ from the workforce. However, age is often ignored in research on women’s careers as well as organisational diversity and inclusion practices. Through an interpretative study of corporate women professionals from India, this article examines the meaning and identity implications of age 30. Findings point to tensions and contradictions in social norms at the intersection of age and gender, and age 30 as a barrier or outer limit for participants’ realisation of strong career identities.

scholarly journals Shackled by Patriarchy and Poverty: Women's Experiences with Domestic Violence in North Central Timor and North Sumatra

PCD Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-202
Author(s):  
Smita Tanaya
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
North Central ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
North Sumatra ◽  
Experiences Of Women ◽  
Shed Light

This article discusses how patriarchal elements of society and culture, in conjunction with poverty, is necessary to comprehend the domestic violence experienced by women. This article departs from a qualitative case study of the experiences of women in Taekas Village, North Central Timor, East Nusa Tenggara, and Pondok Batu Village, Labuhanbatu, North Sumatra, and seeks to obtain a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of how patriarchy and poverty contribute to domestic violence. This article emphasizes that, although domestic violence knows no class, religious, or geographical boundaries, rural women who live in poverty are more vulnerable to domestic violence. This article is hoped to shed light on domestic violence in Indonesia, thereby increasing awareness and providing further impetus for eradicating said practice.

scholarly journals The Experiences of Women Professionals in the Film Industry in Turkey: A Gender-Based Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 205-219
Author(s):  
Hasan Gürkan
Keyword(s):  
Women Professionals ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Television Industry ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Experiences Of Women ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Turkish Society ◽  
Woman Working

Abstract The article is based on 20 in-depth interviews with women professionals conducted for a more comprehensive study focusing on gender roles within the film and television industry in Turkey. This study examines the career possibilities for women, the experience of being a woman working in television and cinema, and the working environment, including work-life balance issues, experiences of discrimination and experiences of sexism. The hypothesis of this study is that film industry is male-dominated, and women have to struggle to be able to prove themselves in this industry in the 21st century in Turkey, where the position of women is made even more difficult by the gender role codes and the structure of Turkish society.

Working Long Hours and Its Impact on Family Life: Experiences of Women Professionals and Managers in Sri Lanka

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thilakshi Kodagoda
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Women Professionals ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Full Time Employment ◽  
Experiences Of Women

Worldwide studies of professional and managerial dual-earner couples in specific professions have indicated that with the double burdens of work and family, working long hours limit women’s career aspirations. Based on in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 40 respondents, this article examines how long working hours in the banking and health sectors impact professional and managerial mothers’ family life and health, and how the latter perceive motherhood roles. Though there was evidence of negative effects of long hours especially on childcare and children’s cognitive development, while rationalising their decision on combining motherhood and paid work, mothers interviewed valued their full-time employment.

scholarly journals Violence and Discrimination against Women of Religious Minority Backgrounds in Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariz Tadros
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Blind Spot ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Religious Minority ◽  
Religious Minorities ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Experiences Of Women ◽  
Policy Engagement ◽  
Shed Light

The theme of this special collection of papers, the lived experiences of women who belong to religious minorities, has been a blind spot both in international development policy engagement and in much of the international scholarship on women, security and peace. Women who belong to religious minorities, who are socioeconomically excluded and are vulnerable to multiple sources of gender-based violence in Pakistan seem to have fallen through the cracks of the ‘leave no one behind’ agenda. The aim of this volume is to shed light on the day-to-day experiences of women and their families who belong to the Ahmadiyya, Christian, Hindu and Hazara Shia religious minorities in Pakistan. Each of the papers in this collection exposes the complexity of the intersections of gender, class and religious marginality in shaping the realities for women from these religious minorities.

Women Information Technology Professionals: Digital Sisterhood

2021 ◽  
pp. 003802292110146
Author(s):  
Priyanka Dwivedi ◽  
Sudeshna Mukherjee
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Women Professionals ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Information Technology Professionals ◽  
Professional Lives ◽  
Information Technology Industry ◽  
Technology Industry ◽  
Phenomenological Perspective ◽  
Experiences Of Women

This study is an exploratory study of the sisterhood circles among women professionals of the information technology industry. It focused on how the medium of technology helped the women to relate to others, form relations of trust and bond as allies in the virtual world over their common concerns in the real world. Adopting a phenomenological perspective, the research aimed to study the experiences of women sisterhood networks and its impact on their professional lives.

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