Women and Public Service Barriers, Challenges and Opportunities [Hardcover]

This book tackles the challenges that women face in the workplace generally and in the public sector particularly. While Women and Public Servicespends time identifying and describing the problems that women faced in the past, it pays special attention to identifying possible remedies to these problems, and also surveys progress made in recent decades. The authors present the challenge of accommodating women in public sector organisations as both a fairness issue and also a human resources matter, as a fundamental prerequisite for recruiting the best and brightest talent.

Key content coverage:

• The representation of women in public organisations, including occupational, agency and position level segregation
• Issues of pay equity--legislation, equal worth measures, and the serious links between the issue of representation and equal pay
• Special issues facing women in their workplace, including institutional climate, workplace violence, sexual harassment, social costs of career progression, and family-friendly policies.

Provides conceptual insights that put the reader in a position to come to grips intellectually with the complex weave of Chinese nationalist sentiment today and in the future.

Alkadry and Tower have brought together in one volume a full range of gender-related issues relevant to public administrators. Practitioners in public and nonprofit organizations need to be aware of these issues, and this book is an important resource for the field.
- Richard C. Box, University of Nebraska at Omaha

The authors inspire us to reflect on the unconscious biases that both men and women hold in gender role expectations in the workplace, thus enabling us to reflect on our own individual roles in the process. The fact that the authors represent both genders makes their unifying argument more compelling.
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