Handbook on Gender and Public Sector Employment. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Hazel Conley, Paula Koskinen Sandberg.
• Editors: Conley, Hazel; Koskinen Sandberg, Paula
• Contents: Contents: 1 Introduction to the Handbook on Gender and Public Sector Employment 1 Hazel Conley and Paula Koskinen Sandberg PART I GENDER AND THE NEO-LIBERAL STATE AS EMPLOYER 2 The state as employer (and regulator) of care services in Germany 10 Karin Gottschall and Ruth Abramowski 3 Real utopias at work. Conflicts and dreams among nurses in the public sector 22 Paula Mulinari and Rebecca Selberg 4 Tensions between welfare services and competitiveness: public sector wages in competitive corporatism and the social democratic gender regime 36 Miikaeli Kylä-Laaso 5 The role of the state in promoting gender equality in public transport employment: evidence from the Global South 50 Tessa Wright 6 Gender, class and the meritocratic ideal. The case of the life sciences in Italian academia 64 Camilla Gaiaschi 7 Gendered employment in public universities: the influence of neo-liberal reforms and union policies in the case of Iceland 78 fiorger›ur Einarsdóttir and Finnborg S. Steinflórsdóttir PART II GENDER AND WORKING CONDITIONS IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR 8 Overcoming 'administrative man'? Redoing gender in Australian public services 94 Sue Williamson and Linda Colley 9 Empowering or depleting women's work? Public sector reform and small-scale entrepreneurship in Swedish eldercare 108 Helene Brodin and Elin Peterson 10 The dynamics influencing women to become teachers in the public sector of Pakistan 122 Mahwish Khan 11 Lean management and hybrid masculinization – a case study from the Finnish healthcare 136 Timo Aho and Laura Mankki 12 Gender differences among city managers in the United States 150 Beth M. Rauhaus, Kathryn E. Webb Farley and Robert D. Eskridge 13 The brass cliff? Women police chiefs and police reform 163 Cara E. Rabe-Hemp, Amie M. Schuck and John C. Navarro PART III WOMEN'S PAY, REWARD AND PENSIONS IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR 14 Evidencing women's progress in Aotearoa New Zealand's public service 176 Jane Parker, Noelle Donnelly, Janet Sayers, Amanda Young-Hauser, Patricia Loga, Selu Paea and Shirley Barnett 15 The devil is in the detail: how neoliberal design limited the successful impact of pay equity policy in New Zealand 193 Katherine Ravenswood 16 Regulating women's pay in Finland and the UK – the role of the public sector 205 Hazel Conley and Paula Koskinen Sandberg 17 Limits of accountability: gender pay audits in Swedish municipalities 219 Minna Salminen-Karlsson and Anna Fogelberg Eriksson 18 Examining gender-based inequalities in US public sector administrative positions over time 234 Valerie H Hunt, Larra Rucker, Melissa A Taylor and Brinck Kerr PART IV WOMEN'S REPRESENTATION AND VOICE IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR 19 Trade union campaigns for early childcare and school secretarial work in Ireland 250 Pauline Cullen 20 Representation and voice in two feminised health professions 264 Cécile Guillaume and Gill Kirton 21 Rethinking exit and voice in the crisis of care – collective repertoires among welfare workers in Sweden 278 Anna Ryan Bengtsson 22 The state monetary deficit is carried on women's backs barriers to union action in the neo-liberalised employment of teachers and social workers in Israel 292 Orly Benjamin PART V GENDER, PANDEMIC AND PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYMENT 23 An exploration into Black and Asian healthcare workers in the United Kingdom's National Health Service being disproportionally affected by Covid-19 307 Beverley Brathwaite 24 Underfunding of nursing education and the precarious employment conditions of nurses: an exploration of contributing factors, COVID-19 pandemic implications, and structural solutions 320 Virginia Gunn, Michael Villeneuve, Patricia O'Campo and Carles Muntaner 25 Examining the experiences of Canadian women police during Covid-19: a liminal space for cultural change 335 Debra Langan, Carrie Sanders and Danielle Thompson 26 Public institutions and home-based teleworking in times of pandemic: a case study at the University of Valencia 348 Isabel Pla-Julián Index.
• Publisher Details: Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (384 pages)
• Subjects: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Women in Business; Gender studies: women; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference; Civil service & public sector; Employment & unemployment; Reference works
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781800378230; 1800378238
• Related ISBNs: 9781800378223
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.