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This incisive Handbook offers a timely and critical analysis of the
gendered nature of public sector employment. Bringing together key
theoretical, conceptual, and empirical research from around the
world, Hazel Conley and Paula Koskinen Sandberg examine the ways in
which female public sector workers experience intersectional
discrimination in the workplace. Covering key sites of employment
for women across the globe, the Handbook considers a comprehensive
range of gendered public sector occupations. Chapters investigate
how women's employment in public services is influenced by complex
political and economic tensions, exploring core issues such as the
relationship between gender, ethnicity, occupational segregation
and work-life balance, flexible working, and workplace bullying;
gendered pay and pension inequality; the sources of feminist
activism in public sector employment; and the impact of the
pandemic on feminised public sector occupations. Ultimately, the
Handbook highlights that while change is possible, it will require
a radical rethinking of how public services are valued and funded
in society. Providing cutting-edge analysis and empirical data on
gender and public sector employment, this Handbook will be an
essential resource for academics and researchers interested in the
role of the State as Employer. Its thought-provoking yet accessible
insights into gendered employment will further benefit students of
social policy, gender politics, employment relations, and the
sociology of work.
The provision of state funded and democratically accountable care
services represents one of the most potentially transformative
advances in gendered social relations and equality for women by
'defamilizing' care and providing paid work. But the cost of
providing these services, which women have access to them and how
they should be provided are always at the forefront of debate,
especially during economic crises. Socially funded and publicly
accountable care services are therefore a key site of feminist
activity, but also the frontline for spending cuts and 'reform'
during times of austerity. Gender Equality in Public Services
analyses how gender equality work in British public services is
changing in response to factors including: equality legislation;
the erosion of local democracy, privatisation of public services
and new forms of feminist activism and leadership. It also assesses
the challenges and opportunities for promoting women's equality in
producing and using public services. Impacting upon developed and
developing economies, the arguments in this challenging book
explore the potential of equality and feminist activism and
leadership for radical and transformational change. It will appeal
to advanced students, researchers and practitioners interested in
social policy, feminist organization theory, equal opportunities
and gender mainstreaming practice.
Equality of opportunity is a phrase that is embedded in the
language of most organizations, even if it is not always
identifiable in their practices. Since the civil rights movement in
the US, and anti-discrimination legislation of the 1970s in the UK,
jolted organizations on both sides of the Atlantic into taking the
concept seriously, public service delivery has often led the way
both in terms of developing new approaches and sometimes in
highlighting the disturbing extent of social inequality. Gender
Equality in Public Services offers an analysis of how the
organization of gender equality work in British public services is
changing in response to legislation, the privatisation of and
reduced state expenditure on public services, the devolution of
power from central to regional and local government, and the rise
of third wave feminism. The book also takes a look at the
challenges and opportunities for promoting women's equality in
employment and public services during these times of change.The
issues covered affect most advanced economies and the argument
developed in the book draws from and contributes to international
feminist debates and research literature on the potential of
equality and gender mainstreaming work for radical and
transformational change, and to feminist organization theory. As
such, it will appeal to students, researchers and practitioners
interested in the lived experience of equality policy and change
processes, feminist organization theory and gender mainstreaming
practice.
The gender pay gap (GPG) exists in every European country, but it
varies considerably, even in EU member states covered by the same
legal principles on pay equality. Part of the variation can be
explained by different patterns of social partnership. With current
policy pressure to de-centralise collective bargaining and increase
the percentage of pay linked to productivity, what role can social
partnership play in tackling the GPG? Reporting on the findings of
the European Commission funded research project "Close the Deal,
Fill the Gap", this book uses an interdisciplinary analysis
involving legal, economic, and sociological expertise, to explore
the role of social partnership in GPG in Italy, Poland and the UK.
Selected on the basis of their contrasting profiles in terms of
legal regulation, industrial relations, systems of collective
bargaining, coverage of collective agreements, and differing rates
of the GPG, the in-depth study provides important insights into the
main issues underlying the problem of reducing the gender pay gap
which have led to guidelines in the negotiation of arrangements on
GPG-related issues. Based on a unique comparative,
interdisciplinary and action-oriented esearch project, it will be
of great interest to all researchers and advanced students with an
interest in women's representation in the workforce and the gender
pay gap, as well as practitioners and policy makers in
organisations such as trade unions and employers' associations.
Workplace discrimination is an experience that, despite four
decades of equality legislation, continues to blight the lives of
thousands every year. Discrimination persists on the protected
grounds of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion
or belief and gender reassignment, as well as where no legal
protection exists such as in relation to class background or
migration status. The Handbook discusses recent changes in equality
legislation as well as considering the limitations of legal
frameworks in addressing inequality. However, complying with the
law is only the first step towards addressing discrimination in the
workplace, and the book goes beyond the law and provides evidence
of good practice in promoting organisational culture change, as
well as considering future directions for policy on equality
action. The Gower Handbook of Discrimination at Work looks at both
social justice and business case perspectives, and its message is
not a negative one. The contributors have considerable depth of
understanding of workplace discrimination, both as academics and
equality practitioners, their work has contributed to policy
formation and all are committed to improving the lives of people at
work. They offer insights into existing international developments
and make suggestions for the ways in which positive change can be
realised. Practitioners, such as human resources professionals and
other managers involved in addressing equality at work, trade
unionists, equality trainers, and academics concerned with
researching or teaching in the areas of employment and equality
will all find this book of interest. Furthermore, it will be of
value to students in the fields of business and management,
employment law, equality and diversity and human resource
management.
The gender pay gap (GPG) exists in every European country, but it
varies considerably, even in EU member states covered by the same
legal principles on pay equality. Part of the variation can be
explained by different patterns of social partnership. With current
policy pressure to de-centralise collective bargaining and increase
the percentage of pay linked to productivity, what role can social
partnership play in tackling the GPG? Reporting on the findings of
the European Commission funded research project "Close the Deal,
Fill the Gap", this book uses an interdisciplinary analysis
involving legal, economic, and sociological expertise, to explore
the role of social partnership in GPG in Italy, Poland and the UK.
Selected on the basis of their contrasting profiles in terms of
legal regulation, industrial relations, systems of collective
bargaining, coverage of collective agreements, and differing rates
of the GPG, the in-depth study provides important insights into the
main issues underlying the problem of reducing the gender pay gap
which have led to guidelines in the negotiation of arrangements on
GPG-related issues. Based on a unique comparative,
interdisciplinary and action-oriented esearch project, it will be
of great interest to all researchers and advanced students with an
interest in women's representation in the workforce and the gender
pay gap, as well as practitioners and policy makers in
organisations such as trade unions and employers' associations.
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Anita Wadley Schlaht; Illustrated by Hazel Conley
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A teacher sees living and working through poetry.
Helen is the second child born into a family of nine children in
the hilly undeveloped region of Eastern Kentucky just before the
great depression. She learned at an early age that her right leg
had been affected by polio. She refuses to believe or allow polio
to prevent her from doing all the things her peers and siblings do.
Maggie, her older sister, is her idol. She follows her wherever she
goes and attempts to do all the things Maggie does: even though
many are very difficult for her. All the children are responsible
for many chores on the farm their father Lee had inherited from his
father. The children have no toys except the ones their parents
make for them: such as board games, wooden sleds, sliding boards
and bran stuffed dolls. At the age of six Helen enters school to
begin first grade in a one room schoolhouse. They use an outdoor
toilet and a well to draw water for drinking. The schoolhouse is
heated in winter by burning coal in a pot belly stove. There is
only one teacher for all eight grades of children ranging in ages
six through sixteen. The children carry their lunch in a four pound
lard bucket and sit on a rock or under a tree to eat. When the
sawmill where Lee works closes down, most of the men are left with
no way to earn money. A few men are still working in the coal
mines, but Lee hates the mines and looks for other ways to survive
the depression. Some of the men turn to making moonshine and
selling it to survive even though it is against the law to make
moonshine. Helen spends her junior and senior high school years
away in boarding school. She spends all her spare time working in
the kitchen to earn money to help pay her tuition and room and
board. The teenagersin the neighborhood are always busy on the
weekends. That''s when they go square dancing, bean stringing and
to box suppers. It is at one of these square dances that Helen
meets and falls in love with her best friend''s brother James. He
gives her an engagement ring and they plan to
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