Women’s participation in international mobility is on the up. Today, just under 17% of expatriates are female. Sue Shortland charts their progress in the international arena, and outlines what companies might do to increase gender diversity yet further.
Back in the early 1980s, very little was written about female expatriates – because there were simply too few to write about. Nancy Adler 1, a North American academic, set the scene by studying women’s perceptions and desires to take international assignments. She estimated that only three per cent of the expatriate population of the early 1980s was female. Research conducted in the UK by ORC 2 a decade later indicated that the number of women expatriates stood at only five per cent.
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