ABSTRACT

This chapter describes the methodology followed in the research on older women's career trajectories that was conducted by an international, multidisciplinary team from nine countries and representative of the disciplines of psychology, sociology, business, management and education. While the detail of individual country sample demographics and results are provided in subsequent chapters of this section of the book, the present chapter describes the methodological parameters within which all nine countries were required to conduct their research. The research methodology has been previously, albeit briefly, described in the literature (Bimrose et al. 2013, 2014; McMahon et al. 2013). The present chapter collates and expands on these earlier descriptions.