Add to ORKGAbstract: Women make up close to half of all trade unionists in Australia, but senior leadership positions and the culture of unions evade a corresponding feminization. Through interviews and focus groups with women at various levels of the paid official hierarchy across a diverse group of unions organizing in different sectors, this article reports on the representation of women in the senior and strategic leadership positions of unions. Despite high levels of commitment to union work and enjoyment of many aspects of the job, women working within the union movement keenly feel that they are under-represented in senior roles and they view sexism and a ‘masculinist ’ culture as alive and well within unions. They believe that this has a stron...
This article investigates how the gender of workplace representatives has implications for three dim...
Bibliography: p. 273-312.xi, 329 p. ; 30 cm.The traditional union conception of the 'problem' of wom...
[Excerpt] Although women now constitute about one third of the members of labor unions in the United...
Women comprise 44 percent of the labor movement, but a smaller percentage of union leaders. We discu...
In the 1990s, Australian trade unions faced an unprecedented battle for survival. Traditional union ...
The research investigates the challenges female union members encounter while seeking or assuming la...
Studies of union leadership commonly examine full-time officials and workplace delegates. Less atten...
International audienceThis chapter argues that a methodology based on the interactionist concept of ...
Much of the literature on the relationship between trade union members and their union assumes that ...
Women have traditionally been under-represented in Australian trade unions. Declining union density ...
This paper reports some of the findings of a questionnaire survey of 379 female members of the Austr...
This research draws on stortes from women in labor unions who have\ud successfully negotiated the ba...
This research examines the reasons that Australian corporations are not doing more to progress gende...
Australian unions face increasing pressure to position women, and people of race, in union official...
International audienceThe equality agenda has gained a much higher visibility in the UK and in Franc...
This article investigates how the gender of workplace representatives has implications for three dim...
Bibliography: p. 273-312.xi, 329 p. ; 30 cm.The traditional union conception of the 'problem' of wom...
[Excerpt] Although women now constitute about one third of the members of labor unions in the United...
Women comprise 44 percent of the labor movement, but a smaller percentage of union leaders. We discu...
In the 1990s, Australian trade unions faced an unprecedented battle for survival. Traditional union ...
The research investigates the challenges female union members encounter while seeking or assuming la...
Studies of union leadership commonly examine full-time officials and workplace delegates. Less atten...
International audienceThis chapter argues that a methodology based on the interactionist concept of ...
Much of the literature on the relationship between trade union members and their union assumes that ...
Women have traditionally been under-represented in Australian trade unions. Declining union density ...
This paper reports some of the findings of a questionnaire survey of 379 female members of the Austr...
This research draws on stortes from women in labor unions who have\ud successfully negotiated the ba...
This research examines the reasons that Australian corporations are not doing more to progress gende...
Australian unions face increasing pressure to position women, and people of race, in union official...
International audienceThe equality agenda has gained a much higher visibility in the UK and in Franc...
This article investigates how the gender of workplace representatives has implications for three dim...
Bibliography: p. 273-312.xi, 329 p. ; 30 cm.The traditional union conception of the 'problem' of wom...
[Excerpt] Although women now constitute about one third of the members of labor unions in the United...