Eastern Perspectives on Women’s Roles and Advancement in Business

Women all over the world are facing numerous challenges and obstacles in the workplace as gender inequality is still running rampant.

To see big change, the patriarchal mindset within business settings needs to be broken.

Management education plays a critical role in changing perceptions in business, and as such, gender equality curricula and teaching materials have become valuable tools in challenging the preconceived belief that business is a male domain.

Eastern Perspectives on Women’s Roles and Advancement in Business presents the real-life stories of Eastern women in business, giving particular focus to how these women overcame challenges and broke the glass ceiling.

This text explores the problems and challenges, experiences, and strategies of overcoming gender discrimination and inequality.

Covering topics such as job engagement, occupational segregation, and social intelligence, this book is a dynamic reference for faculty of higher education, school administrators, librarians, researchers, scholars, women entrepreneurs, businesswomen, managers, CEOs, and students of higher education.