WOMEN AND CAREER
Themes and issues in advanced industrial societies
LONGMAN SOCIOLOGY SERIES
Series Editor:
ROBERT BURGESS, University of Warwick
Editorial Advisors:
JOE BAILEY, Kingston University
ANGELA GLASNER, Oxford Brookes University
CLAIRE WALLACE, University of Lancaster
Published Titles:
Social Europe
Joe Bailey (ed.)
Forthcoming Titles:
Poverty and Wealth
John Scott
Gender and Technology
Juliet Webster
LONGMAN SOCIOLOGY SERIES
Women and Career Themes and issues in advanced industrial societies
edited by Julia Evetts
First published 1994 by Pearson Education Limited
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Women and career : themes and issues in advanced industrial societies
/ edited by Julia Evetts.
p. cm. (Longman sociology series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-582-10194-8
1. Women Employment. 2. Women in the professions. I. Evetts,
Julia. II. Series.
HD6053.W627 1993
Set by 300 in Times
CONTENTS
The Longman Sociology Series is a new series of books which are written specifically for first and second year undergraduate students. Each title covers one key area of sociology and aims to supplement the traditional standard text.
The series is forward looking and attempts to reflect topics that will be included in syllabuses for sociology and social policy in the 1990s. It provides a range of volumes that bring together conceptual and empirical material. In addition, volumes in the series also examine key controversies and debates drawing on commentaries using conceptual and empirical material from a range of authors.
Each volume in the series whether authored or edited, will cover an area that would be commonly found in sociology and social policy syllabuses. The focus of each volume will be upon theoretically informed empirical work with policy relatedness.
The volumes are intended for an international audience and therefore comparative material is introduced where appropriate in a form that will be suitable for first and second year students.
The papers in this volume focus on women and career. As a consequence they contribute to conceptual, methodological and substantive issues in this field. The result is a volume that is an important resource for students, teachers and researchers in sociology and related fields of study.
Robert G Burgess
University of Warwick
January 1993
A large number of people have contributed indirectly to the development and completion of this collection of papers. In particular I would like to thank Hugh Barr for his early encouragement. Colleagues in the School of Social Studies made recommendations and suggestions. Robert Burgess gave continuing support. Linda Poxon typed drafts, standardised contributions and prepared the final manuscript; her willingness, speed and accuracy have been greatly appreciated.
Julia Evetts
University of Nottingham
January 1993
Alan Aldridge is Senior Lecturer in Social Studies at the University of Nottingham. His recent research has focused on social change in the clerical profession, and he has acted as a consultant to the Church of England on womens career development. He is currently researching francophilia and the enterprise culture.
Julia Allison is Director of Midwifery Studies at Norfolk College of Nursing and Midwifery Studies. She is President of the Royal College of Midwives and has done extensive research on midwifery practice.
Lynn Ashburner is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Warwick Business School, currently researching management issues related to the new health authorities and trusts in the NHS. Her past research was on gender and work organisation and she retains an ongoing interest in gender issues as they relate to organisations.
Alice Brown is a Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Edinburgh. She has also lectured in Economics at the Universities of Edinburgh and Stirling. Her research interests include women and politics, labour market policy, industrial relations and Scottish politics. She has published articles and edited books in these areas and is currently working on a book on women and Scottish politics.
Jennifer Coates is Reader in English Language and Linguistics at Roehampton Institute, London. Her published work includes The Semantics of the Modal Auxiliaries (1983), Women, Men and Language (1986) and Women in their Speech Communities (1989) (co-edited with Deborah Cameron). She is currently working on a new book, Women Talking to Women, which is an account of her long-term research project on the talk of single-sex friendship groups.
Diane M. Dunlap is Dean of the Graduate School, Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota. Formerly chair of the Higher Education graduate program at the University of Oregon, Professor Dunlaps research is on women in educational leadership and theories of gender and career development.
Julia Evetts is Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social Studies at the University of Nottingham. She is author of The Sociology of Educational Ideas (1972) and Women in Primary Teaching (1990). She has been researching and writing about womens and mens careers in teaching, both primary and secondary, for a number of years. Currently she is writing about careers in engineering and science in industry and is beginning a new research project on womens careers in banking.
