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Women and Work

Positive Action for Change

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  • © 1988

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Editors:
  1. Angela Coyle
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  2. Jane Skinner

    1. Social Services Department, National Women’s Enterprise Development Agency, UK

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Part of the book series: Women in Society: A Feminist List (WOSOFEL)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction — Continuity and Change: Women in Paid Work

    • Angela Coyle
    Pages 1-14

  3. Who Cares? Women at Work in Social Services

    • Jane Skinner, Celia Robinson
    Pages 15-36

  4. Policy and Praxis: Local Government, a Case for Treatment?

    • Patricia Jones
    Pages 37-57

  5. Behind the Scenes: Women in Television

    • Angela Coyle
    Pages 58-79

  6. Pin Money Professionals? Women in Teaching

    • Elisabeth Al-Khalifa
    Pages 80-103

  7. The Ivory Tower: Positive Action for Women in Higher Education

    • Janette Webb
    Pages 104-129

  8. Just Inside the Counting House: Women in Finance

    • Lynn Ashburner
    Pages 130-151

  9. Who’s Changing Whom? Women, Management and Work Organisation

    • Jane Skinner
    Pages 152-168

  10. Positive Action Training in a Cold Climate

    • Rennie Fritchie
    Pages 169-182

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 183-194
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A study of women's experiences in seven different employment sectors. While highlighting the persistence of male domination and providing a platform for women's experiences, it proposes detailed strategies to build on formal commitments to equality and giving women real power.

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  • Social Services Department, National Women’s Enterprise Development Agency, UK

    Jane Skinner

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