Women and Work

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.

• action
• education
• employment
• government
• higher education
• local government
• quality
• service
• Skinner
• teaching
• television
• treatment
• women
• work

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

  Jane Skinner

Policies and ethics