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Women in Organisations

Challenging Gender Politics

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  • © 1996
  • Latest edition

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Editors:
  1. Sue Ledwith

    1. London University, UK

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  2. Fiona Colgan

    1. University of North London, UK

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Part of the book series: Management, Work and Organisations (MWO)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Women as organisational change agents

    • Fiona Colgan, Sue Ledwith
    Pages 1-43

  3. Women in book publishing — a ‘feminised’ sector?

    • Fiona Colgan, Frances Tomlinson
    Pages 44-77

  4. Career aspirations — women managers in retailing

    • Anne Brockbank, Joanne Traves
    Pages 78-98

  5. Women in personnel management — re-visioning of a handmaiden’s role?

    • Larraine Gooch, Sue Ledwith
    Pages 99-124

  6. Something to declare: women in HM Customs and Excise

    • Amanda Martin Palmer
    Pages 125-151

  7. Sisters organising — women and their trade unions

    • Fiona Colgan, Sue Ledwith
    Pages 152-185

  8. Different careers — equal professionals: women in teaching

    • Geraldine Healy, David Kraithman
    Pages 186-211

  9. Getting to the top in the National Health Service

    • Sylvia Wyatt, Caroline Langridge
    Pages 212-244

  10. On the move: women in the Toronto public transport sector

    • Fiona Colgan, Susan Johnstone, Steve Shaw
    Pages 245-277

  11. Movers and shakers: creating organisational change

    • Fiona Colgan, Sue Ledwith
    Pages 278-300

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 301-341
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About this book

Women in Organisations examines the causes of gender-based inequality at work and provides a wide-ranging gender critique of liberal and radical approaches to organisational equality and of traditional organisational cultures and structures. The book focuses on women's agency as the missing ingredient of much organisational analysis, women's consciousness of gender politics and their own roles as change agents. The book uses research based case-studies of women in organisations and industries including book publishing, retailing and personnel management. The analysis indicates ways in which women acting collectively can play a central role in organisational change, or possibly, even transformation. Thus change and the opportunities and challenges it offers to women and men in work organisations, is revealed as a dynamic shaped both by organisational gender politics and external societal patriarchal structures - social, economic and political.

Editors and Affiliations

  • London University, UK

    Sue Ledwith

  • University of North London, UK

    Fiona Colgan

About the editors

SUE LEDWITH is a Principal Lecturer in the School of Business, Oxford Brookes University, where she is also a member of the University's Equal Opportunities Action Group.

FIONA COLGAN is a Senior Lecturer in Industrial Relations and Organisation Studies and the Director of the Centre for Equality Research in Business (CERB) based in the Business School at the University of North London

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