The Research Handbook on Women in International Management is a carefully designed collection of contributions that provides a thorough and nuanced discussion of how women engage in international management. It also offers important insights into emerging and new areas of research warranting future consideration.

Contents: Foreword PART I: REVIEWING THE HISTORY OF WOMEN IN INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT AND THE CURRENT STATE OF PLAY 1. Women in International Management: Reviewing Past Trends and Identifying Emerging and Future Issues Kate Hutchings and Snejina Michailova 2. Women Expatriates: A Research History Susan Shortland PART II: ORGANISATIONAL AND SOCIO-CULTURAL ISSUES FOR WOMEN IN INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT 3. Female Frequent Flyers: How Women Traveling Internationally Handle their Work/life Balance Iris Fischlmayr and Iris Kollinger-Santer 4. Women Gen X Global Managers Striving for Work/life Balance Pamela Lirio 5. Career and Family Expectations of Women in International Management: A View Across Generations Miriam Moeller, Nancy Napier and Rebekah McGourty PART III: WOMEN IN INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT IN DIVERSE REGIONS OF THE GLOBE 6. Global Platforms, Local Politics: Arab Women in Transnational Organizations Leila DeVriese 7. Women Expatriates from East Asia Fang Lee Cooke 8. Where are the Voices from South America? Argentine, Brazilian, and Chilean Women in International Management Edelweiss Harrison 9. Differences in Working Hours of European High Status Men and Women: Causes and Consequences Marc Cowling and Linda Stroh 10. Hard Choices: Hungarian Female Managers Abroad Beata Nagy and Henriett Primecz PART IV: WOMEN IN INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT – ISSUES MORE RECENTLY EXPLORED IN THE LITERATURE 11. Self-initiated Expatriation through a Gendered Lens Noeleen Doherty and Kaye Thorn 12. Self-initiated Expatriation by Women: Does it Help to Overcome the Glass Ceiling? Phyllis Tharenou 13. Women as Female Breadwinners in Non-traditional Expatriate Families: Status-reversal Marriages, Single Parents, Split Families, and Lesbian Partnerships Yvonne McNulty 14. They Always Look at You a Bit Oddly: Women Developing Career Capital through International Mobility in the Mining Industry Julia Richardson, Steve McKenna and Carolyn Dickie PART V: RESEARCHING WOMEN AND WOMEN AS RESEARCHERS 15. Representation as Scholars and Representing the Researched: The Gendered Position of UK and Australian Women Academics Researching Women in Management Internationally Beverly Metcalfe and Kate Hutchings 16. Reducing the Academic Gender Gap? Institutional Support for Women’s University Careers in the Liberal States Maureen Baker 17. No Gender, Please, We’re International Management Scholars! Janne Tienari