This study compared women's roles, expectations and experiences in two comparable, male dominated industrial manufacturing companies in Australia. Both organisations are subject to legislated equal opportunity program and reporting requirements. The research was conducted to examinee the...

Scrutinizes and analyses the extent to which legislators and senior government officials, and managers in private establishments in developed, transition and developing economies around the world are women. Finds that feminisation of these occupations is not positively related to a country's...

Uses "affirmative action" interchangeably with expressions such as employment equity, positive action, diversity management, etc. Surveys countries where ethnic or racial groups represent a majority of the population, as in Malaysia and South Africa, or a minority, as in the USA, Canada, India,...

This study compared women’s roles, expectations and experiences in two comparable, male dominated industrial manufacturing companies in Australia. Both organisations are subject to legislated equal opportunity program and reporting requirements. The research was conducted to examinee the...

Describes the types, causes and impact of gender-based occupational segregation and examines current levels in 15 countries. Investigates how this segregation has changed during the 1990s in terms of female participation in the labour force, index of dissimilarity, gender-dominated occupations,...

Based on a measure of the gap in basic worker's rights between the ideal world, represented by the ILO's core Conventions, and the real world, as reflected in countries' actual situations. Presents a series of tables showing normalized and disaggregated results for adherence to and...