Women all over the world are still facing numerous challenges and obstacles in the business domain. A gender-equal workplace is still a dream to pursue for a brighter and better future. To change how women are seen, perceived, and treated in the business world, the overall mindset of women in the workplace needs to change. Management education plays a critical role in changing these perceptions of women in business. Gender equal curricula and gender equal teaching materials are a way that universities can begin to challenge those preconceived beliefs that business is a male only domain. More teaching materials discussing and presenting women in the workplace is needed in management education, including women's problems and challenges, their stories of overcoming adversity, and the ways in which they have handled touch situations. This book presents real life stories of women in business, specifically focusing on how they overcame challenges and broke the glass ceiling. These stories will serve as proper teaching materials to be used in different courses of management education and as a means to increasing the awareness of gender quality in business. It will also be of use to lecturers, professors, administrators, librarians, researchers, scholars, practitioners, and students.

Women all over the world are facing numerous challenges and obstacles in the workplace as gender inequality is still running rampant. To see big change, the patriarchal mindset within business settings needs to be broken. Management education plays a critical role in changing perceptions in business, and as such, gender equality curricula and teaching materials have become valuable tools in challenging the preconceived belief that business is a male domain. Eastern Perspectives on Women's Roles and Advancement in Business presents the real-life stories of Eastern women in business, giving particular focus to how these women overcame challenges and broke the glass ceiling. This text explores the problems and challenges, experiences, and strategies of overcoming gender discrimination and inequality. Covering topics such as job engagement, occupational segregation, and social intelligence, this book is a dynamic reference for faculty of higher education, school administrators, librarians, researchers, scholars, women entrepreneurs, businesswomen, managers, CEOs, and students of higher education.