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Dear colleagues,

Sophia Belghiti-Mahut and I will be glad to receive submissions from you to the stream below.

Kind regards,

Alain Klarsfeld

Stream title: Contemporary issues of gender equality at work

Stream conveners

Sophia Belghiti-Mahut

University Montpellier 3-France/University UAEU - Al Ain_UAE

Sofia.Belghiti-Mahut@univ-montp3.fr

Alain Klarsfeld

Toulouse Business School –France

a.klarsfeld@tbs-education.fr

Stream outline

Issues of gender equality, diversity, inclusion constitute economic and social challenges internationally. Even if getting a first job or a first managerial position is no longer problematic for women, their development is still difficult. An observation of the women's situation ten or fifteen years after they started their careers shows that their evolution is different from men's. Many studies, researches and reports, all around the world, agree with that fact. For instance, women represent almost 50% of the labor force in France and in overall; they represent more than 50% of graduates. One would expect to find similar proportions of men and women at all levels of the organization. This is not the case. Women are still hitting the "glass ceiling".

"Those artificial barriers based on attitudinal or organisational bias, (are the ones) that prevent qualified individuals from advancing upward into higher management level positions" (Morrison et al., 1992).

Yet, there are subtle barriers of negative attitudes and prejudices that prevent women from moving beyond a certain level in the corporate hierarchy.

Women in particular face significant challenges within and outside organizational environments, in dealing with the `glass ceiling' (Morrison et al., 1992), the 'glass cliff (Ryan & Haskal, 2007) or 'the sticky floor'. Even at the earliest career stages, unexplained differentials appear between men's and women's remunerations. Women are also struggling in the harmonization of the private and professional life. In addition, whilst ones argue that women have increased professional opportunities as entrepreneurial leaders, a majority of women entrepreneurs still face stereotypes and barriers that affect their efforts as business owners.

The following is an indicative but not exhaustive list of potential topics:

•             Gender inequalities in the early career stages;

•             The impact of gender on professional success;

•             Careers in different national, social and cultural environments;

•             Work life harmonization;

•             Entrepreneurship and gender;

•             Women's leadership and the glass ceiling.

Publication Plans

If there is a degree of consistency in the submissions we would propose a special issue to a partner journal (such as EDI – an international journal) and/or a book project to a publishing house.

Important dates

•             Abstract/Developmental/full paper submission: March 31, 2016 on

http://www.edi-conference.org 

•             Response to authors (acceptance / rejection): April 30, 2016.

•             Deadline for full papers and best paper nominations and submission of best papers to the relevant associated journal (as agreed by submitter): May 30, 2016.

Conference Website : http://www.edi-conference.org/

Kind regards,