1st Edition
Gender and the Professions International and Contemporary Perspectives
1. Introduction: Inequality Regimes and the Gendered Professional Context
Geraldine Healy, Kaye Broadbent, and Glenda Strachan
2. Does Gender Equality at Work Have an Age Dimension? A Study of the Queensland Public Service
Linda Colley
3. Academic Staff on Insecure Contracts and the Interplay of Gender in Australian Universities
Kaye Broadbent, Glenda Strachan and Robyn May
4.The Gendered Law Profession: The Perceptions and Experiences of Women Partners and Men Managing Partners
Irene Ryan and Judith K. Pringle
5. Gender, Architecture and Recession in Spain
Elena Navarro-Astor and Valerie Caven
6. Academics at the Intersection of Age and Gender: A Ghanaian Experience
Cynthia Forson, Moira Calveley, Steven Shelley and Christeen George
7. Gender and Migration: The Experiences of Skilled Professional Women
Susan Ressia, Glenda Strachan and Janis Bailey
8. Clergywomen in the UK: Implications of Professional Calling
Anne-marie Greene
9. Women in Information Technology in Sri Lanka: Careers and Challenges
Arosha Adikaram and Pavithra Kailasapathy
10. Multiplicity of "I’s": STEM-professional Women in the Canadian Space Industry
Stefanie Ruel
11.Will the Head of Engineering Please Stand Up? The Under-representation of Women in Engineering
Susan Durbin and Ana Lopes
12. Gender Experiences in a Female-dominated Industry: The Case of Nurses in Thailand
Uraiporn Kattiyapornpong and Anne Cox
Biography
Kaye Broadbent is Honorary Associate in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences,University of Technology Sydney, Australia.
Glenda Strachan is Professor Emerita in the Department of Employment Relations and Human Resources at Griffith University, Australia.
Geraldine Healy is Professor of Employment Relations and Director of the Centre for Research in Equality and Diversity at Queen Mary University of London, UK.
