International Women
In 2005, international women (women whose career took them abroad on a typical foreign assignment) were hailed as an up-and-coming phenomenon in the annual Global Relocation Trends Survey Report. According to the representative study, 23% of all international assignees were women, and the number of women pursuing their careers abroad was supposed to rise.
In many surveys, these women tend to be associated with personal skills which are considered conventionally "feminine". Among these skills, the following are usually perceived as useful for cross-cultural competency: flexibility, sensitivity, and empathy. However, despite those much-vaunted skills attributed to international women in expat careers, the actual number of women deployed by their companies has slightly decreased.
The Brookfield Global Relocation Trends Survey Report 2010 found that only 17% of international assignments abroad went to women. In their annual report for 2012, this percentage bounced back to one fifth. Among traditional assignees, the number of expat women seems to be ranging between 20% and a maximum of 25%, for the time being.
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Some potential expat women may have rejected an assignment because their partner was not willing to change their own career path rather drastically. Additionally, quite a few female employees could have been reluctant to accept assignments in "unattractive" locations because they were concerned about their safety. On the other hand, those women who do in fact accept expat assignments are confronted with a "man카지노 게임 컬렉션s world" among international employees.
Of course, the number of women in typical expatriate jobs does not account for the many international women who decide to live and work abroad independent of foreign assignments. Perhaps they find a job immediately after graduating from university in another country; they may want to escape from a domestic job market with few employment opportunities, or they are planning to brush up their CV by perfecting foreign language skills and adding international work experience.
온라인 카지노 게임riate Women and Their Career
For international women in business, making money and finding challenging tasks to keep them busy isn카지노 게임 컬렉션t necessarily a problem. "I카지노 게임 컬렉션m a bit of an oddity, though," Amy (30) from London laughs. "I카지노 게임 컬렉션m pretty young to be an expat. I카지노 게임 컬렉션m a woman on an international assignment, and I카지노 게임 컬렉션m married, with a partner who카지노 게임 컬렉션s become a traveling spouse. Thank god I카지노 게임 컬렉션m used to being the odd-man-out in my career. Or should this be the odd woman out?"
Amy is working as a currency broker for an international financial services provider. At the moment, she카지노 게임 컬렉션s staying at the company카지노 게임 컬렉션s branch office in Tokyo. As a woman in finance and banking, especially in the testosterone-driven atmosphere of the City of London, she quickly learned to be assertive and to make the most of her career opportunities.
Since she grew up as the child of a British lawyer and a Japanese school teacher, she has always dreamed of moving to Japan for a couple of years. Familiar with the intricacies of Japanese culture and fluent in both written and spoken Japanese, she was the ideal candidate for that assignment.
Support Networks for International Women in Business
"I카지노 게임 컬렉션m not the only woman in a comparable situation," Amy says. "There카지노 게임 컬렉션s a whole support network for empowering women with an international background in Japan. It카지노 게임 컬렉션s extremely useful for finding advice, business contacts, or mentors. I couldn카지노 게임 컬렉션t do without them. So I카지노 게임 컬렉션m not that much of an exception as I previously thought. But my husband might be카지노 게임 컬렉션"
Due to her support network of female business contacts and other international women, Amy feels right at home in Tokyo. Networking is an essential aspect of every expat experience. Visit our local communities, and maybe you카지노 게임 컬렉션ll also be able to build up your own network of international women.
