Indira Management Review

Open Access Open Access  Restricted Access Subscription Access

Women in Management in India: A Review of Literature and Identification of Research Issues


Affiliations
1 Sophia Girls College, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India, India
2 King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia
 

Inspiration of this paper is to review the academic literature on the subject of women from an Indian perspective in any given organization. Another reason is to provide a comprehensive bibliography and suggest a method of categorizing that literature. Several online databases were explored to provide ample listing of doctoral theses and journal articles on women in management. Consecutively, to measure the direct significance to women in management, several hundred articles were ascertained and evaluated. A select list of articles were thus selected each of which were further examined and categorized. All papers were distributed to the main and sub-categories based on the major focus of each paper. Research on women in management falls into three broad categories: work-life balance; gender inequality; and glass ceiling effect. Each of these categories has a few sub-categories each. The most popular research area on the subject of women in management in India is work-life balance.

Keywords

Women in Management, Women in Management in India, Work-Life Balance, Gender Inequality, Glass Ceiling Effect.
User
Notifications
Font Size


  • Agrawal, R. & Rao, B.V.L.N. (2004). Gender Issues. A Road Map to Empowerment. New Delhi: Shipra Publications.

  • Anand, A. (2002). One workplace, two experiences. Retrieved June 23, 2013 from at http://www.indiatogether.org/women/worklife/ Bhatnagar, D. & Nair, V. (1988) Women managers speak up: a study of the concerns and expectations of women managers, Indian Management, April, pp. 28-36.

  • Buddhapriya, S. (1999). Women in management. New Delhi: APH Publishing

  • Budhwar. P. S., Saini, D. S. & Bhatnagar, J. (2005) Women in Management in the New Economic Environment: The Case of India Asia Pacific Business Review 11(2), pp. 179-193.

  • Chadha, R. (2002) Of Mars and Venus, Business Line. Retrieved August 3, 2013 from http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?Did ΒΌ 0000000270062871&Fmt

  • Chauhan, A. (2010). Indian corporate women and work life balance. International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 5(4), pp. 183-196. George, J. (2011). Women in Administration in India. Journal of International Women's Studies 12 (1) p. 151-156.

  • Gupta, A., Koshal, M. & Koshal, R. J. (1998) Women managers in India challenges and opportunities, Equal Opportunities International, 17(8), pp. 14-18.

  • Gupta, N. & Sharma, A.K. (2003) Social Studies of Science December 2002 32, pp. 5-6, 901-915.

  • Jha A. & Tiwari D. (2011). Gender as determinant of nature of task: A study of professionals in India S J Publication Science Journal of Business Management Web: http://www.sjpub.org/sjbm.html

  • Joseph, C. & Eswara Prasad, K.V. (eds.) (1995). Women, Work and Inequality. The Reality of Gender. Noida, India: V.V. Giri National Labour Institute

  • Khandelwal, P. (2002, April-June). Gender stereotypes at work: Implications for organizations. Indian Journal of Training and Development. XXXII (2), pp.72-83.

  • Kulkarni, S. S. (2002) Women and professional competency - a survey report, Indian Journal of Training and Development, XXXII (2), April-June, pp. 11-16.

  • Maliye, S. (2011), Women Managers in Hyderabad; a sociological study. PhD Thesis, University of Hyderabad, Retrieved on August 12, 2013 from http://hdl.handle.net/10603/1634

  • Mathew, R. V., & Panchanatham, N. (2009). Influencers and the role in determining the work life balance of employees working in the information technology sector. KGEES Journal of Social Science, 1, pp. 17-31.

  • Mathew, R.V., & Panchanatham N (2011, July), An Exploratory Study on the Work-Life Balance of Women Entrepreneurs in South India Asian Academy of Management Journal, 16 (2) pp.77-105.

  • Mehtha, V.R. (2012) A study of Work Life Balance WLB among women employees in service sector with special reference to Pune city. Ph.D.in management thesis of Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth. Research Guide: Shinde, R. Issue date: 20 December 2012. Retrieved August 20, 2013 from http://hdl.handle.net/10603/5663

  • Menon-Sen, K. & Shiva Kumar, A.K. (2001). Women in India : How Free? How Equal? Report commissioned by the Office of the United Nations Resident Coordinator in India. New Delhi: UNDP Nalini, R. (2009) Women Managers in Emerging Urban Spaces. The Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, 44 (4).

  • Naqvi, F. (2011). Perspectives of Indian Women Managers in the Public Sector. Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 18 (3), pp. 279-309.

  • Nath, Deepika (2000) Gently shattering the glass ceiling: Experiences of Indian women managers Women in Management Review 15 (1), pp. 44-52.

  • Nayyar, P., Sharma, A., Kishtawaria, J., Rana, A., & Vyas, N. (2007). Causes and constraints by women entrepreneurs in entrepreneurial process. Journal of Social Science, 14(2), pp 99-102.

  • Roy, R. (2004) Women still minnows in workplace: Survey. Retrieved July 30, 2013 from at http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/contributionsho w/421404.cms

  • Sen, A. (2005) The argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian history and culture and identity. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

  • Sethi, R. M. (1988) Effect of Women's Employment on the Status and Power in the Family Setup, Women and Work in Indian Society. Delhi: Discovery Publishing House.

  • Sharma M. & Sharma S. (2012) Gender Equality in the Workplace: the perceptive reality Social Sciences Directory 1 (1) pp. 19-33.

  • Singh, K. (2003). Women managers: perception vs. performance analysis. Journal of Management Research, 3(1), pp. 31-42.

  • Sinha, R. P. & Prabha, S. (1988) Status Equilibrium of Working Women, Women and Work in Indian Society, Delhi: Discovery Publishing House.

  • Sujhata R. (2008). Barriers in Career Growth of Women Managers: An Indian Scenario. Asia Pacific Business Review 4 (3) pp.108-116. ISSN: 0973-2470

  • Suriya, M. (2003) Gender issues in the career development of IT Professionals: a goal perspective. Retrieved on August 2, 2013 from: http://www.gisdevelopment.net/proceedings/mapasia/ 2003/papers/i4d/i4d002.html

  • TCS (2012) Tata Consultancy Services. Survey Conducted By People Matters. Gender Inclusion in India. Retrieved July 16, 2013 from http://www.igrc.info/index.php/General/genderinclusion-in-india-a-tata-consultancy-servicessurvey-conducted-by-people-matters.html

  • WEF (2011). Global Gender Gap, Report 2011: Ranking and Scores. World Economic Forum, Geneva, Switzerland. Retrieved 6 February 2012 from http://www3.weforum.org/docs/GGGR11/GGGR11 _Rankings-Scores.pdf


Abstract Views: 732

PDF Views: 983




  • Women in Management in India: A Review of Literature and Identification of Research Issues

Abstract Views: 732  |  PDF Views: 983

Authors

Adela Kazmi
Sophia Girls College, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India, India
Azhar Kazmi
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia

Abstract


Inspiration of this paper is to review the academic literature on the subject of women from an Indian perspective in any given organization. Another reason is to provide a comprehensive bibliography and suggest a method of categorizing that literature. Several online databases were explored to provide ample listing of doctoral theses and journal articles on women in management. Consecutively, to measure the direct significance to women in management, several hundred articles were ascertained and evaluated. A select list of articles were thus selected each of which were further examined and categorized. All papers were distributed to the main and sub-categories based on the major focus of each paper. Research on women in management falls into three broad categories: work-life balance; gender inequality; and glass ceiling effect. Each of these categories has a few sub-categories each. The most popular research area on the subject of women in management in India is work-life balance.

Keywords


Women in Management, Women in Management in India, Work-Life Balance, Gender Inequality, Glass Ceiling Effect.

References