تلخیص
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.