Overcoming Barriers to Women's Career Transitions: A Systematic Review of Social Support Types and Providers.

ABSTRACT: In the current career landscape and labor market, career transitions have become a critical aspect of career development and are significant for Human Resource Development (HRD) research and practice. Our research examines the type of support used during different career transitions and who can provide that support to women in career transition. We investigated four types of social support-emotional, appraisal, informational, and instrumental-and their roles in five types of career transitions: school-to-work transition, upward mobility transition, transition to a new profession, transition to entrepreneurship, career re-entry transition, and transition to retirement. We analyzed 80 journal articles using directed content analysis, cross-tabulation, and nonparametric statistical tests. Ins

SUBMITTER: Greer TW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9204263 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature