Gender, Class and Equal Opportunity Policies: A Grass-roots Case Study from the Trade Union Movement.
This paper reports a case study of failure to implement equal opportunity policies at the grass roots of a large UK trade union, recently formed by national merger and over 70% female. It focuses on two of the union's constitutional principles, proportionality (relating to gender) and fair represent...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Gender Studies Vol. 11; no. 2; pp. 167 - 182 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul2002
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