Women in Management Review: Volume 1 Issue 3

Getting a Word in Sex‐wise

Mary Brown Parlee

Women aspiring to fast‐track corporate careers are surrounded by advice on how to succeed. Like the men who were their peers before they were shot out of the business‐school…

Networking: Women's Key to Success

Nancy Paul

This is a guide to networking; how to establish new groups and increase the creativity of those already in existence.

Underachievement in the Civil Service

Celia Temple

Next year the Civil Service celebrates twenty‐five years of equal opportunity policy. Linked to a formal structure designed to promote the ablest individuals, this policy should…

Managing Women— a Man's View

Len Cardwell

This article quite deliberately highlights some of the pitfalls awaiting the naive male manager in his first encounters with managerial responsibilities for women. Could a man be…

The Leeds Permanent Building Society and the Equal Opportunities Commission

Ann O'Brien

In the Summer 85 issue of Women in Management Review we reported that the Equal Opportunities Commission had found that the Leeds Permanent Building Society had been practising…

Child Friendly

Jacqueline Beckett

Jacqueline Beckett reports on how one woman is seeking to combine the running of her own business with the raising of her baby boy.

Team Evaluation

Mark R. Edwards, Suzanne H. Cook

A disturbing productivity loss occurs through the underutilization of women, and a negative effect on productivity is caused by the mis‐classification and under‐representation of…

A Programme of Positive Action

Wilf Knowles

In response to readers' requests, we are including occasional articles that define certain concepts that are basic to the subject of women in management. In this first article…