IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-1-137-33543-2_8.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Where to From Here

In: Black Women in Management

Author

Listed:
  • Diane Chilangwa Farmer

Abstract

This book examines the factors which affect the career and family lives of professional and managerial Black African women originating from sub-Saharan Africa, and living and working in London and Johannesburg. I set out to explore how such women, with relatively similar colonial histories, cultures, career and professional backgrounds, handle their complex positioning. There has been a significant increase in the number of women entering formal paid employment in most parts of the world and making inroads into middle-management positions, but only a few of these women continue to advance and remain in top managerial and professional positions. As Black African women with careers in major cities on opposite sides of the globe, the women in my study are unique in the workplace as they still remain minorities by both gender and race. This, as I have indicated in this book, is despite Black Africans having significant rates of higher education among the country’s BME population (Platt, 2007).

Suggested Citation

  • Diane Chilangwa Farmer, 2013. "Where to From Here," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Black Women in Management, chapter 8, pages 161-172, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-33543-2_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137335432_8
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. André Cavalcante da Silva Batalhão & Denilson Teixeira & Emiliano Lobo de Godoi & Glaucia Ap. Prates, 2020. "Exploring the Local Sustainability Approach Using Indicators," Journal of Management and Sustainability, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 8(4), pages 1-39, March.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-33543-2_8. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.