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Title Making gender work : managing equal opportunities / edited by Jenny Shaw and Diane Perrons
Published Buckingham ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 1995

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Description ix, 246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series Managing work and organizations series
Managing work and organizations series.
Contents 1. Introduction - Gender Work / Jenny Shaw and Diane Perrons -- Pt. 1. The socio-economic, legal and cultural contexts of gender work. 2. Recent Changes in Women's Employment in Britain / Diane Perrons and Jenny Shaw. 3. The Economics Of Equal Opportunities / Sally Holtermann. 4. The Role of the Law in Equal Opportunities / Linda Clarke. 5. Employment Deregulation and Equal Opportunities: The Case for Monitoring Gender Work / Diane Perrons. 6. Towards the Family-Friendly Employer / Lisa Harker. 7. Organizational Culture and Equalities Work / Carole Pemberton -- Pt. 2. Managing equal opportunities: practical issues. 8. Women in the Public and Voluntary Sectors: Case Studies in Organizational Change / Helen Brown. 9. Working Within Local Government: Lessons Learned / Margaret Hodge. 10. Implementing Equal Opportunities in a Local Authority: A Case Study / Paul Burnett. 11. Equal Opportunities and the Voluntary Sector / Ruth Valentine
12. Trade Unions and Equal Opportunities / Rita Donaghy. 13. The Appeal and the Claims of Non-Dominant Groups / Gillian Stamp. 14. Conclusion - Feminization and New Forms of Exploitation: The Changing Language of Equal Opportunities / Jenny Shaw
Summary 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
Analysis Equal opportunities
Great Britain
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-238) and index
Subject Sex disbrimination in employment
Sex discrimination against women -- Great Britain.
Sex discrimination against women.
Sex discrimination in employment -- Great Britain.
Sex discrimination in employment.
Author Perrons, Diane.
Shaw, Jenny, 1943-
LC no. 95015678
ISBN 033519365X
0335193668