Attitudes toward women managers in public sector of Pakistan and its impact on their career progression & Quality of life Moderating role of Masculinity/Feminity

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  • salman sarwar

Abstract

This paper examines attitudes toward woman managers more specifically; this paper tries to identify the impact of attitude and different stereotypes on woman career progression and quality of life with moderating role of Masculinity/Feminity. To address the purpose, data was collected from 80 Female managers from Public sector organizations. Then data was analyzed by using correlation and regression analysis. The analysis indicates that; there was significant positive relationship between Attitude towards women manager and masculinity/Feminity. Second Masculinity/Femininity moderates the relationship between ATWM and career progression in such a way that high Masculinity/Femininity will weaken the relationship. Implication of results and limitations are also discussed in the paper.

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16-11-2017

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sarwar, salman. (2017). Attitudes toward women managers in public sector of Pakistan and its impact on their career progression & Quality of life Moderating role of Masculinity/Feminity. Journal of Contemporary Research in Management (JCRM), 11(3). Retrieved from https://jcrm.psgim.ac.in/index.php/jcrm/article/view/478

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