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International Female Leaders and Their Way to the Top (USA, Sweden and the Netherlands)

Netherlands · Transnational · See the Netherlands profile

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Together with Mission Female, the Authors identified three countries as the object of investigation for the central study question “What are barriers and success factors for female leaders?”: the USA, Sweden and the Netherlands. The reason for this selection is that in all three

12
Interviews conducted
International Female Leaders and Their Way to the Top (USA, Sweden and the Netherlands)

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Promoter
Giulia De Anna, Ellen Schmid, Patricia Kraft
Power domain
Economic Power
Methods / tools
Competence development, Awareness-raising, Benchmarking
Keywords
women empowerment, success factors, barriers, policy actions

Context

A Munich Business School / Mission Female study conducted 12 qualitative interviews with senior female executives (averaging 25 years' experience) in the USA, Sweden and the Netherlands to identify barriers and success factors for women reaching leadership, finding individual/interpersonal factors (networks, mentors, self-confidence) act as success factors consistently across all three countries, while organisational and societal factors (stereotypes, quotas) are perceived as the greatest barriers.

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