Gender Equality in Public Services: Chasing the Dream

ISBN-13: 9780367739089 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 148 str.

Hazel Conley; Margaret Page

Opis

Gender Equality in Public Services offers an analysis of how the organization of gender equality work in British public services is changing in response to legislation, the privatisation of and reduced state expenditure on public services, the devolution of power from central to regional and local government, and the rise of third wave

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Women’s Equality and the Welfare State – Contradictory political landscapes  3. Dreams and Visions of Feminist Equality in the Local State  4. Translating Dreams into Practice: Practitioner reflections  5. Implementing the Gender Equality Duty - Looking through the window of opportunity  6. Chasing the Dream: Feminists and researchers creating spaces for change 

Case Studies: 1. Modernisation and mainstreaming: gender equality by performance management  2. Feminist leadership, precarious progress: from feminist social justice to privatisation and outsourcing  3. Belief not duty: leading gender equality and diversity within partnerships and with local communities  4. Promoting women’s equality through collaborative feminist leadership  5. Balancing intersectionality, ‘cohesion’ and cuts

O autorze

Hazel Conley is Reader in Human Resource Management in the Centre for Research in Equality and Diversity at Queen Mary University of London. She is the joint editor of The Gower Handbook of Discrimination at Work.

Margaret Page is a senior lecturer in organisation studies in Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, UK. Her research and teaching investigates and supports managers and activists who promote women’s equality and diversity in public services.