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Analysing Change in Women's Careers: Culture, Structure and Action Dimensions
Author(s) -
Evetts Julia
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
gender, work and organization
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.159
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1468-0432
pISSN - 0968-6673
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0432.00093
Subject(s) - action (physics) , sociology , determinism , dimension (graph theory) , hofstede's cultural dimensions theory , gender studies , social psychology , epistemology , psychology , social science , mathematics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , pure mathematics
This article addresses a number of related issues. It outlines and illustrates three dimensions of explanations about women's careers: cultural, structural and action dimensions. The three dimensions are considered as aspects of determinism and choice in women's careers and are illustrated with regard to different professional sectors. The article argues that change needs to be a prominent feature in the analysis of women's careers but that change is differently perceived and interpreted in analyses in the three different dimensions.