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Fields of power and career trajectories: some qualitative insights on the position of women entrepreneurs/ managers in Croatia

* There are many works and research about different career opportunities which modern enterprises and corporations offer to the 'managing men and women of corporations‘ (Moss Kanter, 1981). This paper will try to add a certain value to such type of literature using as starting points some very known theoretical concepts developped by P. Bourdieu (such as are 'fields of power', different types of capital, 1993., 1997.) and very specific Croatian circumstances with regard to the phenomenon of women managers and women entrepreneurs. * Starting assumption: womens' carrer trajectories in different fields of power are somehow different, depending on the structure of such fields. While women entrepreneurs enters into entrepreneurship with some stocks of culture and economic capital, women managers build their carrer mostly on cultural capital (education), trying convert it into visible aspects of economic and symbolic capital. Different power contexts produce also different perception of gender discrimination and opportunities present within them.

Fields of power, women entrepreneurs/ managers, Croatia

Rad je nastao temeljem međunarodne suradnje uokviru projekta "COST Action IS1409: Gender and health impacts of policies extending working life in western countries".