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Breaking second glass ceiling: lived experiences of women entrepreneurs in Pakistan

Authors: Ambreen Salahuddin, Qaisar Khalid Mahmood, Akhlaq Ahmad

Published in: Quality & Quantity | Issue 1/2022

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The glass ceiling is a well-recognized phenomenon in the corporate sector thwarting aspirant women to gain senior management positions. It is an indiscernible barrier and a strong ceiling blocking women moving up in the management hierarchy. This paper, however, explores the existence of the second glass ceiling for women entrepreneurs who escaped the corporate world to start their businesses but are trapped by another glass ceiling. This research mainly explores the existence of a second glass ceiling for women entrepreneurs and the ways they used to get through it. This study is conducted for an in-depth understanding and uses the phenomenological approach. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with women entrepreneurs of Lahore. This paper apart from explaining the second glass ceiling also finds solutions to break it.

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Title: Breaking second glass ceiling: lived experiences of women entrepreneurs in Pakistan
Authors: Ambreen Salahuddin
Qaisar Khalid Mahmood
Akhlaq Ahmad
Publication date: 22-02-2021
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Quality & Quantity / Issue 1/2022
Print ISSN: 0033-5177
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7845
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-021-01119-5

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