Equal Opportunities International: Volume 3 Issue 4

A Legislative Programme for Affirmative Action

Alison Ziller

A legal requirement for equal employment opportunity programmes in government agencies in the State of New South Wales, Australia was introduced in 1980. The article looks at the…

Women Managers in Hong Kong: Traditional Barriers and Emerging Trends

Suk‐ching Ho

The current status of women in management in Hong Kong is examined and some of the factors affecting their movement into non‐traditional roles and status are highlighted.

Networking, Publications

Volume 6 Number 2 of Employee Relations contains two articles of interest. In the first Cary L. Cooper writes on “Where Women are Going” in which he outlines some of the problems…

Not the Marrying Kind: Single Women in Australia

Robyn Penman, Yvonne Stolk

A review by Virginia Novarra This book is based on an important and very unusual piece of research: a survey of 435 single (i.e. never married), and childless women in Melbourne…

Women, Work and Success: A Study of High Achievers in the Media

Linda Thompson

This is a study of a sample of women who have been particularly successful in the highly competitive field of mass media, where the pressures and rewards are perhaps more extreme…

Nordic Female Entrepreneurs

Greta Frankel

Entrepreneurs need both psychological and practical support when starting up their business. These support structures need to be local. This article describes three Nordic…

Women‐Headed Families: Problems and Copings Strategies

Sarla Sharma

This article presents an in‐depth profile of women headed families by exploring the problems of single mothers and their coping strategies and evaluate single motherhood as an…