Norwegian and French Women in high Leadership Positions
The Importance of Cultural Contexts Upon Gendered Relations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8071709 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Erika Apfelbaum (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 409-429 |
| Publication date | 1993-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychology of Women Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-6843 • E-ISSN: 1471-6402 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1471-6402.1993.tb00653.x |
| OpenAlex | W1519310350 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
This analysis of 50 French and Norwegian women in high positions of leadership stresses how gendered relations structuring private and professional lives will vary in different cultures according to their socio-historical contexts. The specific contexts of two Western European democracies, France and Norway, reveal a number of differences impacting on the careers and the construction of the personal and social identities of women leaders. Interviews were held with French women who (a) assumed pioneering leadership positions in the 1970s ( n = 10) and (b) who followed in the 1980s ( n = 20) and with Norwegian women leaders ( n = 20). Sixty percent of the total sample had held posts as cabinet or subcabinet ministers. Illustrations from their narratives, collected through semistructured interviews about their personal and professional itineraries, are used to discuss a number of questions from a comparative cultural perspective: the sense of double marginality, extraneity, lack of entitlement and vulnerability; role-model legitimation; feminism and the women's movement; political parity/mixity; gender consciousness and solidarity; and family and female—male interactions
Bureaucracy · Cabinet (room · Entitlement (fair division · Feminism · Narrative · Norwegian · PARRY · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · Education, sociology, and vocational training · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,34 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2021 (25) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |