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The Career Progression Of Women In State Government Agencies, Maria J. D'Agostino, Helisse Levine
The Career Progression Of Women In State Government Agencies, Maria J. D'Agostino, Helisse Levine
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the impact of the utilization of organizational practices on the career progression of women to executive positions in state-level government organizations in the USA.
Design/methodology/approach – The design included an online survey instrument sent to a purposive sample of 600 female administrative agency executives in 50 states. A standard multilinear regression model tests the predictive power of three composite explanatory utilization variables on the dependent variable, career progression of women to upper level management. The composite predictor variables are: utilization of work/family practices; utilization of diversity practices; and utilization …