What do we really know about corporate career women expatriates?

Career Mobility in a Global Era: Advances in Managing Expatriation and Repatriation

“…A minority (23%) used mixed methods and only a fraction (7%) employed a longitudinal design. We believe that the methodology ratios identified by Shah and Corley (2006) and by Shortland and Altman (2011) as well as the analysis provided by Shaffer et al (2012) represent the spread of research methodologies employed in the study of E&R in general, with some notable exceptions, such as ethnographic studies (e.g. Lauring & Selmer, 2009) and the use of supplementary secondary data (e.g.…”

“…An area of intersection is the role of gender. This topic, addressed in the academic literature since the early 1980s, has accumulated sufficient interest to merit several reviews (Altman & Shortland, 2008;Shortland & Altman, 2011;Hutchings & Michailova, 2014, Kumra, 2013Shortland, 2014). While embedded in the wider arena of diversity and discrimination, nearly all the discourse on this subject to date has focused exclusively on the role of women in expatriation (also termed the double glass ceiling or glass border: Linehan & Walsh, 1999).…”

Career Mobility in a Global Era: Advances in Managing Expatriation and Repatriation

“…An area of intersection is the role of gender. This topic, addressed in the academic literature since the early 1980s, has accumulated sufficient interest to merit several reviews (Altman & Shortland, 2008;Shortland & Altman, 2011;Hutchings & Michailova, 2014, Kumra, 2013Shortland, 2014). While embedded in the wider arena of diversity and discrimination, nearly all the discourse on this subject to date has focused exclusively on the role of women in expatriation (also termed the double glass ceiling or glass border : Linehan & Walsh, 1999).…”

Extreme Expatriation: The Effect of Location Factors and Masculine Environments on Women’s International Assignment Participation in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production

“…Yet, very little is known about expatriate compound life (Lauring and Selmer 2009). Studies on women's expatriation provide only a patchwork of information by geography, having, in the main, addressed more traditional Western sending and receiving locations (Shortland and Altman 2011). There has also been little research into organizational support for expatriates (Kraimer et al 2001) and studies of expatriate policies, terms and conditions rarely address specific concerns of women assignees based in non-Western host locations (Hutchings et al 2008).…”