2020 / published by Emerald Publishing Limited

Solutions for tackling workplace gender inequality: Exploring the impact of women’s self-efficacy levels, career aspirations and work engagement

Despite equal rights and increased openness in the workplace over the preceding decades, issues surrounding women in the workplace and how they perform compared to their male counterparts continue to generate much discussion. A research paper by Hartman and Barber (2020) explores the differences between men and women in the workplace in relation to their self-efficacy, career aspirations, and engagement. The paper aims to uncover how men and women differ in these occupational characteristics, and more specifically whether self-efficacy has an impact on the career goals of women. The assessment of these similarities and differences between genders was based on 153 responses to online surveys.


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