Women and Careers
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-63373-5 (ISBN)
The unifying theme of Women and Careers is women’s educational and employment success, with the objective of profiling supportive public policy in global contexts from Atlantic Canada to Western Europe, Australia and China. It takes up the career processes of women from marginalized groups who have been underrepresented historically: women who are the first generation to graduate from university in both Atlantic Canada (New Brunswick) and China and rural women from the eastern most Canadian province (Newfoundland and Labrador). It examines the situation of marginalized Protestant women in Belfast, Northern Ireland, who benefit from a European Union program that supports their political and social involvement in an economically underdeveloped region and previously unimagined in a country once wrought by sectarian violence. A policy analysis of an Atlantic Canadian region after the dominant forestry industry leaves takes up policy options and women’s possible agency should economic support return for small business networks and social enterprise, e.g., credit unions, food and social housing cooperatives. Proactive employment equity programs in Finland’s Applied Science Institute and Switzerland’s Forestry Institute provide cutting edge examples of diversity and inclusion policies in education and academia. A comparative study of Canada and Australia of two leading public service employers illustrates incremental outcomes for women managers and professionals but raises the ultimate question of the pace and necessary political will required to remove barriers to gender equality in countries with major gender inequities.
Women and Careers examines a series of institutional contexts transnationally and the impact of policies, programs and economic re-structuring on careers outcomes. It displays the latest research on the topic and will be of interest both to students at an advanced level, academics, reflective practitioners, and diversity managers. It addresses the topics with regard to women’s education and employment and will interest researchers, academics and policymakers in the fields of women’s employment and career studies, diversity programs, organization studies, development policy, gender studies and globalization.
Marilee Reimer is a Professor of Sociology at St. Thomas University in Canada. She is the editor of an earlier collection of articles Inside Corporate U: Women in Academia Speak Out, Sumach Press (2004), Toronto, Canada.
Introduction
Social and Policy Directions and Women’s Careers, Marilee Reimer
Part 1. Transnational Studies of Careers, Programs and Policies
Transnational Studies of Careers, Programs and Policies. Introduction to Part 1, Marilee Reimer
Atlantic Canadian Women University Graduates: Creative Career Strategies for First Generation Women, Marilee Reimer
Gendered Choices in Post-Secondary Education - Math and Science or Liberal Arts? A Study of Women Students from Rural Newfoundland, Monique Bourgeois
Postgraduate Transitions in a Transforming China: Exploring Lived Experiences of First-Generation Female Students in Two Chinese Universities, Yixi Lu
Towards the Good Society: Expanding Women’s Capabilities through Community-Education and European Social Policy in Northern Ireland, Susan Hodgett
Considering Gender in View of Community and Economic Development Practices in Rural Atlantic Canada, A. Marguerite Cassin
Part 2. Equity in Education and Government
Making the change in work-life equity – does it really happen? Introduction to Part 2,
Liisa Timonen and Marilee Reimer
Reflections on Equity in the Finnish Working Life: A Case Study on Master’s Students as Diversity and Inclusion Promoters, Liisa Timonen, Erja Turunen
Diversity and Inclusion in Institutional Development in Science and Engineering in Switzerland: A Bird’s Eye View by Ursula Gut
Are We There Yet? Advancing Women in Canada and Australia: Similar Goals, Different Policies, Eddy Ng, Erica French
Conclusion
Conclusion, Marilee Reimer
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.11.2018 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Studies in Gender and Organizations |
| Zusatzinfo | 9 Tables, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 362 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-138-63373-9 / 1138633739 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-63373-5 / 9781138633735 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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