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Over the past few years there had been a dramatic increase in the number of women entering the surveying profession. Fewer than five per cent of practising surveyors were women, …
What are the effects of employment on women’s well-being and social position in a Third World city?Until recently before publication, Calcutta (now Kolkata) had been notable for …
Women who work as prostitutes are struggling against a disadvantaged position in society. The relative poverty in which many women still live in is seen as the cause for …
Why did working-class women become the central labour force on assembly lines in the new consumer goods’ industries of the inter-war period? What was the long-term significance of …
Originally published in 1994, This Working-Day World is lively collection of essays presenting a social, political and cultural view of British women’s lives in the period 1914–45. …
The labour market was undergoing considerable change. In particular, the advance of new technology and the development of positive action training for women had the potential to …
Originally published in 1981, this study is concerned with the extent to which the goal of sexual equality in employment, as set out, for example, in the Soviet constitutions of …
Women ‘kept the home fires burning’ while their men went off to war. This is the usual image of the part played by women in the First World War, reinforced through countless …
Many working women have to face a serious conflict between the demands of their work and the demands of family life. Changing perceptions about the role of women are making this …
Women have always played an important, and dominant, role in social work. Originally published in 1975, their special contribution to the profession is the theme of this book, in …