Equal Opportunities International: Volume 10 Issue 2

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES IN THE IRISH CIVIL SERVICE:AN INTERIM REVIEW

Evelyn Mahon

The national context Ireland has the lowest proportion of married women in the paid labour force (20%). A Catholic patriarchal ideology has enshrined the position of women in the…

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENTS FOR WOMEN INLOCAL GOVERNMENT IN THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OFGERMANY AND GREAT BRITAIN

Margery Povall, Monika Langkau‐Herrmann

Background in Germany In the Federal Republic of Germany the employment of men and women in the public service is governed by the Basic Law (constitution) and labour laws, which…

WOMEN IN THE HIGHER PUBLIC SERVICE: RECRUITMENT AND CAREERS

Barbara C. Wurster

In all the 12 Member States today the percentage of women in the working population is increasing, but still many more women than men work at lower levels, and the latter hold…

VOLUNTARY SERVICE AND PAID EMPLOYMENT: THE ROLES OF WOMEN IN ENGLISH LOCAL GOVERNMENT, 1889–1989

Jeffrey Stanyer

Introduction When a new field of research and analysis becomes fashionable it is sometimes given a special name which im‐plies that it is a sub‐discipline which should develop in…