Examines successful cases of equality bargaining. The particular sites selected are: a retail bank with 27,000 employees, 63 per cent female; a food supermarket chain with almost 66,000 employees, 74 per cent female; non industrial civil service with 51 per cent female employees, and a city...

This book helps us to better understand the problems women face in rising through the ranks and securing top positions, and offers some useful strategies for shattering the glass ceiling. It examines current gender inequalities in the labour market and in political and social life.

Based on desk and field research in 54 organizations conducted in 1998 and 1999 in Caribbean countries, discusses the accomplishments and problems of small enterprise development organizations in assisting small enterprise development.