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Fernando, Dulini, Cohen, Laurie and Duberley, Joanne (2018) What helps? Women engineers’ accounts of staying on. Human Resource Management Journal, 28 (3). pp. 479-495. doi:10.1111/1748-8583.12192
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12192
Abstract
We have considerable understanding of the obstacles that women engineers encounter and the reasons that they leave the field, but we know less about what enables them to remain. Adopting an interpretivist approach, this article examines how a group of British women engineers in two FTSE 100 companies account for “staying on” in their male‐dominated work settings. We delineate four specific forms of help that facilitate women's retention in the field. We argue that exposure to help leads to women developing a habitus that enables them to continue working in engineering. To conclude, we draw on our findings to outline HR practices that will facilitate supportive relationships in the workplace and pave the way towards developing more positive organisational climates.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Women engineers, Women in engineering, Women--Employment, Engineers | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Human Resource Management Journal | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0954-5395 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | July 2018 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 28 | ||||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 479-495 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/1748-8583.12192 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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