What’s a woman to do in a man’s world? Whatever she wants, Mrs R

IT’S easier for a man in my position to pick up the phone to his customer and organise a golfing day or whatever. There is an advantage there.’

“I don’t play golf therefore am not visible and you would feel under pressure to pick it up.”

Two women speaking. Two middle managers, quoted in a study designed to further our understanding of the barriers faced by women trying to get to the top. The study, by Christine Cross, a lecturer in the University of Limerick, is one of several examining the problems of businesswomen included in the just-published 2005 edition of the Irish Business Journal, issued by the Cork Institute of Technology.