Introduction

Diane Chilangwa Farmer

Chapter 1 in Black Women in Management, 2013, pp 1-14 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The last 40 years have seen enormous economic and social change with the world witnessing an increase in women’s employment worldwide (Burke and Davidson, 2000, 2011; Wajcman, 1998; Wirth, 2001). However, progress towards gender equality has not been uniform across the world. In Western society, some progress has been made towards gender equality in the public sphere of the labour market and similar changes have been witnessed in the private sphere where intimate relations such as marriage and family structures continue to undergo major transformations (Wajcman, 1998). In sub-Saharan Africa, women’s participation in formal paid employment, though low in comparison with Western figures, has also increased, bringing about major changes and new challenges for society as a whole (OkekeIhejirika, 2004). The micro-trends in these various cases, however, are different.

Keywords: Black Woman; Research Participant; Gender Equality; Managerial Woman; African City (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137335432_1

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