Handbook on Gender and Public Sector Employment

Edited by Hazel Conley and Paula Koskinen Sandberg

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Abstract: This incisive Handbook offers a timely and critical analysis of the gendered nature of public sector employment. Bringing together key theoretical, conceptual, and empirical research from around the world, Hazel Conley and Paula Koskinen Sandberg examine the ways in which female public sector workers experience intersectional discrimination in the workplace.

Keywords: Business and Management; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
ISBN: 9781800378223
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction to the Handbook on Gender and Public Sector Employment , pp 1-8

Hazel Conley and Paula Koskinen Sandberg

Ch 2 The state as employer (and regulator) of care services in Germany , pp 10-21

Karin Gottschall and Ruth Abramowski

Ch 3 Real utopias at work: conflicts and dreams among nurses in the public sector , pp 22-35

Paula Mulinari and Rebecca Selberg

Ch 4 Tensions between welfare services and competitiveness: public sector wages in competitive corporatism and the social democratic gender regime , pp 36-49

Miikaeli Kylä-Laaso and Shirley Barnett

Ch 5 The role of the state in promoting gender equality in public transport employment: evidence from the Global South , pp 50-63

Tessa Wright

Ch 6 Gender, class and the meritocratic ideal: the case of the life sciences in Italian academia , pp 64-77

Camilla Gaiaschi

Ch 7 Gendered employment in public universities: the influence of neo-liberal reforms and union policies in the case of Iceland , pp 78-92

_orger_ur J. Einarsd—ttir and Finnborg S. Stein_—rsd—ttir

Ch 8 Overcoming 'administrative man'? Redoing gender in Australian public services , pp 94-107

Sue Williamson and Linda Colley

Ch 9 Empowering or depleting womens work? Public sector reform and small-scale entrepreneurship in Swedish eldercare , pp 108-121

Helene Brodin and Elin Peterson

Ch 10 The dynamics influencing women to become teachers in the public sector of Pakistan , pp 122-135

Mahwish Khan

Ch 11 Lean management and hybrid masculinization - a case study from Finnish healthcare , pp 136-149

Timo Aho and Laura Mankki

Ch 12 Gender differences among city managers in the United States , pp 150-162

Beth M. Rauhaus, Kathryn E. Webb Farley and Robert D. Eskridge

Ch 13 The brass cliff? Women police chiefs and police reform , pp 163-174

Cara E. Rabe-Hemp, Amie M. Schuck and John C. Navarro

Ch 14 Evidencing womens progress in Aotearoa New Zealands public service , pp 176-193

Jane Parker, Noelle Donnelly, Janet Sayers, Amanda Young-Hauser, Patricia Loga and Selu Paea

Ch 15 The devil is in the detail: how neoliberal design limited the successful impact of pay equity policy in New Zealand , pp 194-205

Katherine Ravenswood

Ch 16 Regulating womens pay in Finland and the UK - the role of the public sector , pp 206-219

Hazel Conley and Paula Koskinen Sandberg

Ch 17 Limits of accountability: gender pay audits in Swedish municipalities , pp 220-234

Minna Salminen-Karlsson and Anna Fogelberg Eriksson

Ch 18 Examining gender-based inequalities in US public sector administrative positions over time , pp 235-249

Valerie H. Hunt, Larra Rucker, Melissa A. Taylor and Brinck Kerr

Ch 19 Trade union campaigns for early childcare and school secretarial work in Ireland , pp 251-264

Pauline Cullen

Ch 20 Representation and voice in two feminised health professions , pp 265-278

Cécile Guillaume and Gill Kirton

Ch 21 Rethinking exit and voice in the crisis of care - collective repertoires among welfare workers in Sweden , pp 279-292

Anna Ryan Bengtsson

Ch 22 The state monetary deficit is carried on women's back: barriers to union action in the neo-liberalised employment of teachers and social workers in Israel , pp 293-306

Orly Benjamin

Ch 23 An exploration into Black and Asian healthcare workers in the United Kingdom's National Health Service being disproportionally affected by Covid-19 , pp 308-320

Beverley Brathwaite

Ch 24 Underfunding of nursing education and the precarious employment conditions of nurses: an exploration of contributing factors, Covid-19 pandemic implications, and structural solutions , pp 321-335

Virginia Gunn, Michael Villeneuve, Patricia O’Campo and Carles Muntaner

Ch 25 Examining the experiences of Canadian women police during Covid-19: a liminal space for cultural change , pp 336-348

Debra Langan, Carrie B. Sanders and Danielle E. Thompson

Ch 26 Public institutions and home-based teleworking in times of pandemic: a case study at the University of Valencia , pp 349-363

Isabel Pla-Julián

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