This research explored working parents’ aspirations for progression, barriers, and what employers could do to increase opportunity, through an online survey with 878 respondents. It found that while parents have the appetite to progress into senior roles, they are currently underutilised, as jobs aren’t structured to be accessible to them.
With this book we wanted to send a message of optimism and hope to the women of the 21st century, through the experience generously given to us by 17 women who have been able to integrate their lives. The protagonists of this play are not perfect women or superwomen. They are flesh and blood women who have felt fear at some point, but have managed it, who have made mistakes at some point but have mended their ways. Women who have broken and overcome glass ceilings and, especially, their concrete ceilings, those false beliefs that sometimes lead us to sing “I can’t”
While devolution raised the stakes of local elections and the quota has improved women’s political inclusion, these reforms have not fundamentally changed the power of political parties, the way campaigns are financed, cultural ideas about women’s leadership, and the pervasiveness of violence in Kenyan elections.
Purpose – This study aims to explore the nature of women’s career experiences over the life course by examining career patterns, career locus, career contexts, and career beliefs. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative, inductive approach to data gathering and analysis was employed, using life story surveys, semi-structured interviewing, thematic analysis, grounded theory, codedevelopment and descriptive statistics.
This paper addresses the impediments faced by women in leadership in Kenya in 2006-2016 as they become transformational leaders.
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