Swimming ahead or treading water? Disaggregating the career trajectories of women self‐initiated expatriates

Haak-Saheem, W., Hutchings, K. and Brewster, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5314-1518 (2022) Swimming ahead or treading water? Disaggregating the career trajectories of women self‐initiated expatriates. British Journal of Management, 33 (2). pp. 864-889. ISSN 1467-8551 doi: 10.1111/1467-8551.12465

Abstract/Summary

This paper explores the career choices and trajectories of women self-initiated expatriates (SIEs). Extant research on these issues has tended to view women expatriates as a coherent group. We used a qualitative approach, involving semi-structured interviews with 51 women SIEs, to examine women’s reasons to relocate, reasons for employment, their past and current work as part of overall career, and their future career plans. Drawing on literature on career theories, gender work segregation theory and women expatriates, we explore how national and individual factors affect women SIEs’ career choices and career trajectories. In providing a more nuanced discussion of the careers of women SIEs, our key findings are that women’s careers differ according to national grouping and marital status; with life-stages and happenstance playing a more important role in women’s careers than a planned career path.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/94721
Identification Number/DOI	10.1111/1467-8551.12465
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Henley Business School > International Business and Strategy
Publisher	Wiley
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