Equal Opportunities International: Volume 1 Issue 1

SEXISM and LINGUISTICS

Dale Spender

Where does knowledge come from? Who makes it up? What purpose does it serve? Unfortunately, while these are fundamental questions for us, they are questions that are rarely asked.

WOMEN and JOBS:THE CANADIAN CASE

Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong

In recent years, Canadian women have been flooding into the labour market, into employment and unemployment. While the steadily rising participation rate of women has been…

SISTERS TALKING

Elaine Hallgarten

After a wartime spent in Canada as evacuees, we returned to London to find, in common with most children of our age who had been living in North America during the war, that we…

NETWORKING

28 December 1981–1 January 1982: Haifa, Israel WOMEN'S WORLDS: THE NEW SCHOLARSHIP An international interdisciplinary congress for academics from all over the world to allow for a…

UK SEX DISCRIMINATION and the EUROPEAN COURT

Jennifer Corcoran

Decisions have recently been given by the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg which are of vital importance for the cause of equality between men and women. They demonstrate…

EDUCATION FOR WOMEN IN THE 1980's

Janet Cockerill

At times of uncertainty, society has seen women — and women have seen themselves — as exemplifying the ‘old’ values. They have tried to hang on to what they had — keeping the home…

WOMEN and WORKING TIME

Sheila Rothwell

The current debate on work‐sharing and shorter working hours is still largely conducted in terms of changes to men's working hours. ‘The old pattern of the 8‐hour day, 5‐day week…