Project Aim
‘Enterprise 2.n' is fundamentally changing the conditions that shape women's career opportunities. A new constellation of new opportunities and new risks is emerging. Thus, a new realm of opportunities for women is emerging - after decades of tenacious attempts to improve their chances of career advancement that only produced minor success.
But at the same time, the trend towards Enterprise 2.0 might also harbour new risks for women's career opportunities. In many fields, there may even be a danger of a ‘roll-back' for women, if certain risk factors are not met with counteractive measures at an early stage.
Within this context, the project analyses career and advancement paths in companies, investigates the gender-specific effects of such pathways and enquires into the various causes - causes located in corporate structures as well as causes located in individual career strategies.
The study investigates
- how skilling and career structures in companies are shaped,
- whether alternative career paths are advantageous for women,
- which instruments for career advancement are used,
- which career strategies are typically pursued by women and men,
- which factors foster or obstruct women's careers and what weight the respective factors possess,
- how the companies involved in the study can be evaluated, in comparison with other companies, with regard to women's career opportunities,
- where their strengths and weaknesses lie and
- which concepts for improving women's career opportunities have the best prospects of succeeding.
The findings obtained in the project will be translated into a set of ‘best practices' for improving women's career opportunities in the business world.
