What helps?: women engineers’ accounts of staying on
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 companie...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | nottingham-497572020-04-22T04:30:12Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49757/ What helps?: women engineers’ accounts of staying on Fernando, D. Cohen, Laurie Duberley, Joanne 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. Wiley 2018-04-22 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49757/1/what%20helps%20women.pdf Fernando, D., Cohen, Laurie and Duberley, Joanne (2018) What helps?: women engineers’ accounts of staying on. Human Resource Management Journal, 28 (3). pp. 479-495. ISSN 1748-8583 help support retention women engineering career habitus http://psychsource.bps.org.uk/details/journalArticle/11009547/What-helps-Women-engineers-accounts-of-staying-on.html doi:10.1111/1748-8583.12192 doi:10.1111/1748-8583.12192 |
| spellingShingle | help support retention women engineering career habitus Fernando, D. Cohen, Laurie Duberley, Joanne What helps?: women engineers’ accounts of staying on |
| title | What helps?: women engineers’ accounts of staying on |
| title_full | What helps?: women engineers’ accounts of staying on |
| title_fullStr | What helps?: women engineers’ accounts of staying on |
| title_full_unstemmed | What helps?: women engineers’ accounts of staying on |
| title_short | What helps?: women engineers’ accounts of staying on |
| title_sort | what helps?: women engineers’ accounts of staying on |
| topic | help support retention women engineering career habitus |
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