Right time to join? Organizational imprinting and women's careers in public service organizations

Abstract

Women across the economy continue to encounter difficulties in progressing their careers as occupational segregation and precarious conditions symbolized by the "glass ceiling" and "glass cliff" indicate. Theories of imprint-organization fit indicate that organizational munificence at the time of appointment may be an important influence on individual careers. Prosperous conditions at the time of hire might

Objective and subjective career success: individual, structural, and behavioral determinants on European hybrid workers

“…There is reason to suggest that levels of career success may vary for men and women differently within the private and public sectors. Differences in the distribution of genders among top-level positions within public and private organizations – with more women in higher levels of organizational hierarchy in public sectors than in private sectors ( Orser and Leck, 2010 ; Ashworth et al, 2022 ) – may lead to differences between the sectors in the variability of career success outcomes between genders.…”