Equal Opportunities International: Volume 13 Issue 3/4/5

WOMEN WALES AND EUROPE: AN INTRODUCTION

Patricia Daniel, Sandra Betts

The Women's Studies Colloquium is an annual event for women staff and research students from all disciplines from the constituent colleges of the University of Wales (Bangor…

FEMINISING THE MAINSTREAM: Women and the European Union's Training Policies

Teresa Rees

Gender segregation remains a remarkably persistent feature of the workforce in all member states of the European Union (EU), regardless of variations in rates of female economic…

WORKING WOMEN AND CHILDCARE: WALES IN THE NINETIES

Shân Ashton

1994 is the International year of the Family. In Britain, at least, this event has coincided with wide public debate (and moral panic) over a number of issues relating to ‘family’…

ENTERPRISING WOMEN IN EUROPE: BALANCING PRIVATE AND PUBLIC LIVES

Elizabeth J. Muir

This paper is based on a current study which is funded by the Commission of the European Communities (DG V, Equal Opportunities Unit) and is part of doctoral research initiated at…

WOMEN IN THE WORKFORCE: ALTERNATIVE CHOICES FOR WOMEN FROM COALMINING AREAS:: Partnerships in Community Development

Heather Pudner, Mair Francis

Women in the Workforce, Alternative Choices for Women from Coalmin‐ing Areas is a European project which evolved in 1992 from a partnership link between the DOVE (Dulais…

PLAYING AN ACTIVE ROLE IN TRAINING NETWORKS

Jill Venus

Those of us who are providing education and training today, do so within a European context. We can no longer think of the needs of potential participants, and the requirements of…

WOMEN ACADEMIES IN EUROPE

Elizabeth Rhodes

The University Women of Europe (IWE) co‐ordinates the associations of Women Graduates in the various European countries and is part of the worldwide International Federation of…

POLITICAL NETWORKING FROM GRASSROOTS TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

Irene Norman

The European Women's Lobby The European Women's Lobby (EWL) was officially established in September 1990 following a conference hosted by the Fawcett Society in 1987 which passed…