Hi Valerie, Have you accessed the data pool at your own university?  What ages? Are these women participants currently working outside CONUS?  What about past employment?  Paid employment or volunteers?   What is your research question?  Thank you.  Jan Vinita White, PhD Gerontologist

Ditto to what Jan said.  I have one or two friends but need to know what your research question is to see if they are interested.  Have you tried calling the US embassies in the countries you are interested in?  They may be able to help you.

Hope to hear some more info from you soon.

regards,

Brigette

Thanks for answering> No,  did not call any embassies yet but thanks for that ideal.  I do have a website for anyone to see it is www.bexpat.org or contact me at [email protected].

My purpose of the proposed narrative qualitative research study will be to explore the lived experiences of the  U. S. female expatriates in terms of their perception of success or failure at a host country. It is also to understand the disparity in the limited amount of female expatriates as to male expatriates and with the perspective of what is successful in the assignment or what they feel is a failure.

Requirements are: Age is not a factor, needed to work and lived about a year in another country, under a U. S. corporation, company,business, government, military can be included, solo expatriates are not involved in this study (saving for future studies), U. S. female citizen a must!

The research question is what are the true experiences of the female expatriates in terms of their perception of success or failures?  The life scopes were quite barren and recommended more studies needed to focus on the female experiences.

Any help that I receive is highly appreciated and a blessing to my work, thank you!