Abstract
This phenomenological study explores such strategies that facilitate women to reach higher managerial position. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven women executives serving in different sectors. The findings reveal that women are enjoying the status to be at top tier. Although they have faced many work barriers such as work and domestic pressures, social and familial commitments and gender stereotypes yet they are also using various strategies i.e. empathic intelligence, endurance-hope, self-efficacy to cope with these barriers. Further, it has been found that traditional spouse supports one of the strongest themes that women executives have highlighted during their discussion. The key value added by this phenomenological study is to provide a perspective of women executive’s adaptive strategies to be at the top tier specifically in the non-traditional context of Pakistan.

Khansa Irem, Muqqadas Rehman, Chaudhry Abdul Rehman. (2016) Strategies to Overcome Work Barriers: An Exploratory Study of Women Executives in Pakistan, , Volume-10, Issue-1.
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