Equal Opportunities International: Volume 3 Issue 1

Equal Opportunity in New Zealand Legislation and Implementation

Helen Place

This article looks at the status of women in New Zealand: their career expectations; working patterns; attitudes towards women as managers; equal opportunity legislation made so…

Current career concerns of female and male managers and professionals: An Analysis of free‐response comments to a national survey

Beverly Alban Metcalfe

This is a report on the major themes to emerge from a national research project which examined the effects of job changes on the personal and career development of 2,304 female…

Networking, Publications

Europas Frauer gleichberechtigt? Die Politik der EG‐Länder zur Gleichberechtigung der Frau im Arbeitsleben, by Hörtenze Hörburger and Fritz Rath‐Hörburger, WI Vergal Gmbh…

Documenting The Power Structure in Academic Institutions

Clare Burton

The author discusses, with a sociological perspective, the sources of power within organisations and its implications to equal employment opportunity.

Impact of a Priori Attitudes on the Effectiveness of Advertisements Employing Sexual Reference: Some Experimental Findings

Paul J. Hensel, Alan J. Dubinsky

Portraying sex in advertisements is a widely used technique by many marketers in their promotional programmes. Some previous research has explored the relationship between…