Making gender work : managing equal opportunities
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Making gender work : managing equal opportunities
（Managing work and organizations series）
Open University Press, 1995
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-238) and index
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Description
Making Gender Work analyses both the broad economic, legal and cultural frameworks of equal opportunities and assembles first-hand accounts from pioneers in the field. This integration of academic and practical expertise represents a major contribution to the management of equal opportunities and analysis of organizations.
For a growing number of people gender is their work whilst, for others, it is the reason why they get less (or more) pay, training and recognition at work. This book is a response both to the rise of jobs or careers in equal opportunities and to the conditions which make such jobs necessary. Both trends indicate that gender expertise needs to become professionalized and not remain a purely academic or analytical skill. This book indicates how those skills might be developed and the sort of broad background knowledge practitioners will need if they are to be effective change agents.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Gender work
Part one: Socio-economic, legal and cultural contexts of gender work
Recent changes in women's employment in Britain
The economics of equal opportunities
The role of the law in equal opportunities
Employment deregulation and equal opportunities
the case for monitoring gender work
Towards the family friendly employer
Organizational culture and equalities work
Part two: Managing equal opportunities
practical issues
Women in the public and voluntary sectors in organizational change
Working within local government
lessons learned
Implementing equal opportunities in a local authority
a case study
Equal opportunities and the voluntary sector
Trade unions and equal opportunities
The appeal and the claims of non-dominant groups
Conclusion - feminization and new forms of exploitation
the changing language of equal opportunities
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ISBN 9780335193660
Description
"Making gender work" analyses both the broad economic, legal and cultural frameworks of equal opportunities and assembles first-hand accounts from pioneers in the field. This integration of academic and practical expertise represents a major contribution to the management of equal opportunities and analysis of organizations. For a growing number of people gender is their work whilst, for others, it is the reason why they get less (or more) pay, training and recognition at work. This book is a response both to the rise of jobs or careers in equal opportunities and to the conditions which make such jobs necessary. Both trends indicate that gender expertise needs to become professionalised and not remain a purely academic or analytical skill. This book indicates how those skills might be developed and the sort of broad background knowledge practitioners will need if they are to be effective change agents.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Socio-economic, legal and cultural context of gender work: recent changes in women's employment in Britain
- the economics of equal opportunities
- the role of the law in equal opportunities
- employment deregulation and equal opportunities - the case for monitoring gender work
- towards the family friendly employer
- organizational culture and equalities work. Part 2 Managing equal opportunities/practical issues: women in the public and voluntary sectors in organizational change
- working within local government - lessons learned
- implementing equal opportunities in a local authority - a case study
- equal opportunities and the voluntary sector
- trade unions and equal opportunities
- the appeal and the claims of non-dominant groups
- conclusions: feminization and the new forms of exploitation.
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