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Professional women in organizations: New paradigms for research and action

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Writings about professional women in organizations often adopt an advocacy approach and look at problems of women in isolation from the rest of the organization. This article suggests a systems perspective for viewing these problems as concerns of an organizational subsystem that can have important ramifications for the other subsystems and for the organization as a whole. Reviewing research on some major issues encountered by professional women at the workplace, this article demonstrates the usefulness of complementary research to integrate these issues into an organizational framework.

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  1. Organizational Behaviour Area, Indian Institute of Management, 380 015, Ahmedabad, India.

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I wish to thank Jean Stead and Jagdeep S. Chhokar for their comments on an earlier draft of this paper. I thank R. Usha for her careful preparation of each draft of this manuscript.

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Bhatnagar, D. Professional women in organizations: New paradigms for research and action. Sex Roles 18, 343–355 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00288296

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