Making Gender Work : Managing Equal Opportunities

Making Gender Work analyses both the broad economic, legal and cultural frameworks of equal opportunities and assembles first-hand accounts from pioneers in the field. This integration of academic and practical expertise represents a major contribution to the management of equal opportunities and analysis of organizations.
For a growing number of people gender is their work whilst, for others, it is the reason why they get less (or more) pay, training and recognition at work. This book is a response both to the rise of jobs or careers in equal opportunities and to the conditions which make such jobs necessary. Both trends indicate that gender expertise needs to become professionalized and not remain a purely academic or analytical skill. This book indicates how those skills might be developed and the sort of broad background knowledge practitioners will need if they are to be effective change agents.

"...provides a timely, informed and thoughtful reassessment of work in the field of equal opportunities concerned with gender inequalities...It is also well-produced and perhaps most important of all, given it's subject matter, it is written in an engaging and accessible style. It is a book that will be read and used." - Work Employment and Society "...a useful book for those who wanta snapshot of equal opportunities for women, or as a general introduction to equal opportunities in relation to women." - Journal of Management Studies