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Women in international careers: at the crossroads of barriers, challenges and opportunities

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  • Sara Falcão Casaca
  • Ana Rita Nunes

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This article seeks to expand the knowledge available on the motivations, constraints, opportunities and experiences of women occupying international managerial positions, either as expatriates or in autonomous professional projects. A qualitative methodology was adopted. A total of 20 in-depth interviews were conducted with women in international careers. Family-related factors are the most common barriers to women taking advantage of opportunities and experiences abroad. Inspired by an earlier article (Mathur-Helm, 2002), women’s international managerial experiences are represented here as standing at a crossroads, at the point of intersection of different, challenges and opportunities. The decision to move abroad and the mobility process are experienced as a complex and ambivalent path: a crossroads where both positive and negative paths intersect with each other and a labyrinth where pleasures derived from work, self-fulfilment, work-family conflicts and personal pain are closely intertwined in their experiences.

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  • Sara Falcão Casaca & Ana Rita Nunes, 2016. "Women in international careers: at the crossroads of barriers, challenges and opportunities," Working Papers wp012016, SOCIUS, Research Centre in Economic and Organisational Sociology at the School of Economics and Management (ISEG) of the University of Lisbon.
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    2. Heike Schütter & Sabine Boerner, 2013. "Illuminating the work‐family interface on international assignments," Journal of Global Mobility, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 1(1), pages 46-71, June.
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