... How far can an employer go in favouring women when taking on staff or promoting someone, and still remain within the bounds of European law? What has a state or an employer the right to do in order to ensure that jobs are shared fairly between men and women? The European Commission has tried...

... Making remarks about the physical attributes of women waitresses is a normal part of evening business entertainment to many Japanese executives. And it is not unheard of for them to complain about a female colleague’s looks. How do western female managers working in Japan cope...

... Most commentators examine the role of women in the workplace from an Anglo‐Saxon perspective. Demonstrates that things are not all that different in southern European Roman Catholic Italy. encourage female employment; achieve equality between men and women at work; and remove...

... Debates whether male and female managers adopt different leadership styles. If so, asks do the differences reflect how the two sexes interpret the idea of empowerment? © MCB UP Limited 1997 Empowerment Gender Leadership Men Skills Women The single most uncontroversial...

... While the number of women in management is increasing, they are not reaching top jobs in anything like the numbers they should. Women‐only management courses have been tried as a way of overcoming the problem. Explores the advantages and drawbacks. Effectiveness Management development...

... Management Management attitudes Management styles Men Organizational change Women Although the world of work is changing and diversity in organizations is discussed and even encouraged, it still appears, looking at statistics[ 1 ] that management remains an occupation which women fail to enter...

... have developed reputations for innovative equal opportunities initiatives. Moores realized that equality of opportunity could be good for business. Women are the company′s main customer base, as well as comprising the majority of their employees, and it was recognized that women needed to be more...

...Stephen King Argues that, in spite of the good intentions of equal opportunities policies, the needs of older career women appear to be unnoticed. These women often find, on approaching retirement, that they are side‐lined into “caring” roles, usually with elderly relatives. There is often...

...Virginia E. Schein; Marilyn J. Davidson Examines a recent managerial sex typing research project. Results show that it is still very difficult for women to reach top managerial jobs and those who do are very much in the minority. The “glass ceiling” appears to be still intact although women...

...Karen Lloyd Whilst most major management and training initiatives tend to focus on natural regional centres or on large urban areas, Wiltshire TEC is proactively working on women′s issues. Reports on the six leading initiatives with regional providers and agencies in the county which are attracting...

... In the wake of the launch of Opportunity 2000 in Autumn 1991, which binds signatory companies to affirm and implement goals and action plans for women at all levels, focuses on five cases – representative of banking, manufacturing, retailing, a corporation and higher education– and indicates...

...Nigel Smith Men are still cast as the macho breadwinners and women in a caring,supportive role. This gender conditioning has become part of the company culture and tends to perpetuate the stereotype. Seeks to re‐form this conditioning and reinject the “softer” side of men, just as in a different...

...Valerie Hammond Reviews research on men and women in management and looks at the differing standards expected. Most of the existing research has been done in the USA but Europe and some parts of Asia are now taking on these studies and research areas. Shows how women have a better relationship...