The Saudi women participation in development index

Determinants of Successful Exclusive Breastfeeding for Saudi Mothers: Social Acceptance Is a Unique Predictor

“…There has been a shift in women's roles in Saudi society from a solely motherhood role to a multirole with higher education, employment status, and socialization [24][25][26][27][28]. A published study found that full-time working mothers' support timing is essential, including acute support, such as establishing a successful latch needed during the first two weeks after delivery and the necessary long-term support to overcome breastfeeding issues [29].…”

Breaking through the glass ceiling: The three-dimensional model (Macro, Meso and Micro) towards promoting women participation in an academic context: Insights from a mixed-methods approach

“…As a result, women's participation in the workforce has significantly changed their social roles (Abalkhail, 2017). They are now allowed to occupy senior positions and assume, relatively more, public responsibilities (Omair et al, 2020;Alsubaie and Jones, 2017;Hodges, 2017;Thompson, 2015). According to the Pew Research Report, the ratio of women's participation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's workforce is the fastest-growing among the 20 countries (Mulligan, 2019).…”

“…They get fewer opportunities to acquire positions in leadership positions as compared to their male counterparts and the opportunities offered to them are often limited to the middle level of management (e.g., deans' deputies) rather than senior management (Deans, Presidents, and Vice Presidents) (Al-Moamary et al, 2020;Gazzaz, 2017). A recent study revealed a huge gap in terms of gender in senior positions where females occupy only 14% in the public sector and 10% in the private sector (Omair et al, 2020). This low level of women's representation in leadership positions in higher education (Alotaibi, 2020) reflects the extent of the glass ceilings phenomena in the Saudi context.…”

Composite Appraisal of Women Development in Selected Thirty-six Countries with Special Focus on Pakistan: Applying Grey Incidence Analysis Model

“…Relevant studies that are necessary to set out the outset of the study are reported in this article. Avalanche of published literature can be witnessed on women development across the globe including: identifying the capabilities of women's leadership and sustainable development in Colombia (Barrios et al, 2020), exploring the relationship between female directorship and firm performance in France (Bennouri et al, 2018), gender inequality in assets ownership in Latin America (Deere et al, 2010), wage gaps of female-male among salaried workers in India (Deshpande et al, 2018;Lee & Wie, 2017;Menon & Rodgers, 2009), uncovered opportunities and barriers of female employment in sports in UK (Forsyth et al, 2019), women segregation in tourism employment in APEC region (Hutchings et al, 2020), women empowerment in East Africa (Miedema et al, 2018), women empowerment in Nepal (O'Hara & Clement, 2018), women asset ownership in rural south-east and north-east Nigeria (Oladokun et al, 2018), participation of Saudi women in development index (Omair et al, 2020), gender wage gap in Mexico (Popli, 2013), gender wage discrimination in Pakistan (Sabir & Aftab, 2007;Yasmin, 2009), gender wage inequality between 1992-2014 in Sri Lanka (Seneviratne, 2020), role of female directors and stock price in China (Shahab et al, 2020), women's social and financial empowerment in Pakistan (Tahir et al, 2018) and gender wage gap in Philippines (Zveglich Jr. et al, 2019). Bennouri et al (2018) examined the data of 394 French firms and affirmed that there is a positive relationship between female board directorship and firm performance; similar finding have been found by Nekhili & Gatfaoui (2013) and Peni (2014).…”