Women in Organisations

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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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.

• gender
• management
• organization
• women

• London University, UK

  Sue Ledwith

• University of North London, UK

  Fiona Colgan

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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