unemployment. Employment “inflexibility” is linked to cultural values reflecting feminine gender structuring of society. A strong …

importantly the theory needs to be gender inclusive and recognise the important role played by women as a link between industrial … of male unionists in traditional male workplaces. The paper proposes a new gender inclusive model of community industrial …

Among trade unions, women, black, disabled and lesbian and gay members are increasingly recognised as significant in … for gender democracy and the need to reflect membership diversity, and consider whether such strategies are sufficient. We … do so by drawing on research with two unions; the print union, the GPMU, a private sector industrial union where women …

takes places among a few specialists. The industrial relations tradition also keeps women and research in gender in the … periphery. This has consequences not only for the visibility of women’s labour market participation and for the status of the … research in gender, but also for the industrial relations tradition, as it will become less able to see new tendencies and …

's theory can be successfully used to analysis gender change within industrial relation and to explore how women's differing …Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to seek greater academic discussion of gender and gender change within … industrial relations. It attempts to move the theoretical discussion of gender away from universal systems theories of analysis …

professorial recruitment and selection procedures in relation to gender differences at Dutch universities. Design … a clear indication of gender differences in selection and recruitment procedures. Although not in all disciplines, the … correlation with the number of women on the committee. Research limitations/implications – As it was not possible to make any …

academics; 35 (28 women and seven men) were in administrative, support or general staff positions. Findings – Interviewees … universities with over 30 per cent of their senior management positions filled by women. It explores the factors that enabled this … was essentially qualitative, based on 81 interviews, 50 with senior women and 31 with senior men. All those interviewed …

support staff in English universities and the extent to which these might constitute barriers to progression. Design … Vice‐Chancellors and Vice‐Chancellors. Findings – The research shows that women are now progressing well to the promoted … lecturer grade, but that their careers stall beyond this level. Women's less developed research profile is the main impediment …

gender differences, are analysed against the background of a decade‐long organisational change strategy. Findings – Mentors … participation. The findings suggest that a long‐term mentoring programme for women has the potential to be an effective …