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The book focuses on highly educated women, a specific workforce group that contributed the most to the closing of the gender gap worldwide. Apart from the introduction (Chapter 1) and conclusion (Chapter 9), the theoretical part of the book elaborates: (1) six main areas of gender segregation - essentialist segregation, educational segregation, employment segregation, occupational (horizontal) segregation, hierarchical (vertical) segregation, pay segregation(Chapter 2) ; (2) four specific areas of gender segregation - segregation in politics, segregation in entrepreneurship, segregation in STEM, segregation in communist and post-communist economies (Chapter 3) ; (3) three groups of barriers employed women are faced with - social obstacles, organisational obstacles, personal obstacles (Chapter 4) ; (4) five groups of women’s inclusion initiatives - society-level, state-level, organisational-level, household-level, individual-level, and three groups of their benefits - social, macroeconimic, microeconomic(Chapter 5) ; and (5) previous findings about the segregation of highly educated women (Chapter 6). The empirical part of the book includes: (1) a secondary macro analysis of highly educated women status (primarily EU-28) (Chapter 7) ; and a primary micro level research about the perception of highly educated women on contextual career factors and their experience of personal critical incidents concerning equality (worldwide sample) (Chapter 8). The theoretical part of the book outlines as well the success stories of three multinational companies who managed to integrate gender equality into their organisations (Ericsson Nikola Tesla, Phillip Morris International, and Hrvatski telekom (a member of Deutsche Telecom group)). Also presented is a description of a Mamforce certificate attesting family responsibility and a gender-aware human resources management (HRM) function, and an interview with a 2017 European Union (EU) Oscar awardee for gender equality issues and women rights. |
