Is Feminism a Silver Bullet to Shatter African Glass Ceiling? An Examination of the Mediating Role of Financial Wellbeing

Q2 Business, Management and Accounting

Business Perspectives and Research Pub Date : 2023-01-19 DOI:10.1177/22785337221148279

Hailemariam Kebede Gelgile, Amit Shukla

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The idea of feminism advocates social, political, economic, and intellectual equality for women and men. In the organizational context, particularly in Africa, there is a dearth of studies probing the implications of feminism toward shattering of the proverbial glass-ceiling that women face every day. The present article is aimed to address this gap. It investigates the role of feminism in promoting women’s career advancement through financial wellbeing. The study deploys a sample of 250 women working in the four breweries in the Addis Ababa area, Ethiopia. The findings confirmed our hypotheses that feminism was a strong predictor for women’s career success and that financial wellbeing acted as a mediator between the two. As a major implication, the study highlights the positive role of feminism for women’s career success, while underlining the importance of financial wellbeing for them. It assumes particular significance considering prevalent misgivings about these concepts in Ethiopian society. The study also provides certain recommendations for future researchers and policymakers.

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女权主义是打碎非洲玻璃天花板的银弹吗？金融福祉的中介作用研究

女权主义主张男女在社会、政治、经济和知识方面平等。在组织背景下，特别是在非洲，很少有研究探讨女权主义对打破女性每天面临的玻璃天花板的影响。本文旨在解决这一差距。它调查了女权主义在通过经济福利促进女性职业发展方面的作用。这项研究对埃塞俄比亚亚的斯亚贝巴地区四家啤酒厂的250名女性进行了抽样调查。研究结果证实了我们的假设，即女权主义是女性职业成功的有力预测因素，而经济状况是两者之间的中介。作为一个主要含义，该研究强调了女权主义对女性职业成功的积极作用，同时强调了经济福祉对她们的重要性。考虑到埃塞俄比亚社会对这些概念普遍存在疑虑，它具有特别重要的意义。该研究还为未来的研究人员和政策制定者提供了一些建议。

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