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Item Open Access Career advancement and family balance strategies of executive women(Emerald, 2009) Ezzedeen, Souha R.; Ritchey, Kristen G.Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore coping strategies devised by executive women in family relationships to advance their career and to maintain career/family balance. Design/methodology/approach - A qualitative methodology using a sample of 25 executive women explores career advancement and career/family balance strategies within work and family contexts. Findings - Analysis produces multiple career advancement and career/family balance strategies, including professional support, personal support, value system, and life course strategies such as the "ordering" of career and family, negotiating spousal support, and whether to have children. Research limitations/implications - Adaptive strategies facilitate engagement in career and family, even in challenging gender environments, encouraging continued research on executive women's advancement and career/family balance. The idiosyncratic nature of career/family balance calls for greater emphasis on the context and timing of career and family experiences. Practical implications - The paper offers guidance to women seeking to combine executive career and family and to organizations committed to the advancement and retention of women. Originality/value - The paper jointly explores career advancement and career/family balance strategies pursued by executive women in family relationships. It contributes to a growing body of research on the coping mechanisms and adaptive strategies underlying balance between career and family.Item Open Access Career and family strategies of executive women: revisiting the quest to "have it all"(Elsevier, 2009) Ezzedeen, Souha R.; Ritchey, Kristen G.Item Open Access Facilitating class discussions around current and controversial issues: ten recommendations for teachers(Taylor & Francis, 2008) Ezzedeen, Souha R.Facilitating productive class discussions is one of the most challenging tasks facing college educators, especially when potentially divisive issues are discussed. The author shares ten recommendations derived from teaching a course on current and controversial managerial issues via conversational learning. Excerpts from student comments are included to demonstrate the appropriateness of these recommendations. These recommendations are applicable to conversations across subjects and are meant to encourage college teachers to experiment with conversational learning in their own classrooms.Item Open Access The man behind the woman: a qualitative study of the spousal support received and valued by executive women(SAGE, 2008) Ezzedeen, Souha R.; Ritchey, Kristen G.Little is known about the spousal support received by married executive women and the support behaviors that they value. This article details the results of a qualitative study of 20 senior and executive-level women, with the aim of understanding their received and valued spousal support. An inductive typology was developed through semistructured interviews of the supportive behaviors deemed general, most valued, and least valued, as well as those behaviors perceived as being unsupportive, across six categories: emotional support, help with household, help with family members, career support, esteem support, and husbands' career and lifestyle choices. This article concludes by contextualizing the results relative to existing research, discussing study implications and limitations, and presenting recommendations.