Local initiatives for working women: Feminism, economics, or both?

Kettle, Jane

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“…As Kettle (1998, p. 64) has argued, ‘[e]qual opportunities policies must shift their focus from procedures and processes to culture and attitudes before barriers can be thoroughly challenged’. Yet the individualistic embrace of meritocracy (Knights and Richards 2003), and the acceptance thereby of inequality, derives from the liberal‐feminist wing of the women’s movement, consonant with the new management abroad in the public sector, suggesting constraints to women’s movement activities within non‐social movement organizations.…”

Section: New Public Management Higher Education and Gendermentioning

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Women’s Movements and New Public Management: Higher Education in Sweden and England

Barry

Chandler

Berg

2007

Public Administration

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This article considers change in academe in Sweden and England, focusing on gender equity and the new public management reforms. In drawing on social movement theory, it is argued that public sector agendas in these countries have been affected by the infl uences of their respective women ' s movements as well as by the new public management. The article explores these developments through the experiences of a group of employees whose voices are heard infrequently in the literature, those in middle-level academic positions in universities who are responsible for delivering change. It is argued that the rational, hierarchical, masculine discourses of the new public management offer challenges to women ' s movement supporters, whose infl uences and responses are examined. It is contended that the use of social movement theory, as a vehicle through which to conceptualize change, offers a number of insights. These are: the contribution made to gender equity by women who are not self-defi ned feminists or strongly committed to equal opportunities, known as femocrats; the contribution made by some supportive men to gender equity; and the potential for future collective opposition to the new public management from women ' s movements.

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Section: New Public Management Higher Education and Gendermentioning

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Women’s Movements and New Public Management: Higher Education in Sweden and England

Barry

Chandler

Berg

2007

Public Administration

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“…On the contrary, managing diversity and associated business case discourses offer another tool for pursuing hard targets without worrying too much about their actual equality impact and outcomes (Liff, ). Kettle () provides a useful analysis of how business case arguments have been taken up by local authorities in relation to women's employment. Her argument is that, although adopting these arguments has yielded some pragmatic gains, they have done so by removing the threat of conflict, and feminism, from women's equality discourses.…”

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Revisiting Jewson and Mason: The Politics of Gender Equality in UK Local Government in a Cold Climate

Conley

Page²

2016

Gender Work & Organization

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This paper revisits Jewson and Mason's seminal theoretical framework on liberal and radical approaches to equal opportunity policy and practice by applying it to our research on the implementation of the Gender Equality Duty in UK local government. Conducted at the height of Thatcherism, Jewson and Mason's research offers a useful platform for assessing equality initiatives in local government during periods of political hostility to equality underpinned by cuts to public services, which in more recent time is ascribed to austerity. Drawing on qualitative research in five case study local authorities, this paper assesses strategies for protecting and promoting gender equality practices and policies in the face of change within public services. We analyse three types of politics of equality (political philosophy, organizational politics and party politics) that feature in Jewson and Mason's analysis. In line with recent feminist research, our data indicate that equality specialists continue to use both liberal and radical discourses in instrumental ways to promote equality and resist change as described by Jewson and Mason, but these were more clearly framed within business case arguments influenced by the modernization agenda of the 1990s. Our data indicate that even business case arguments have been unable to protect equality initiatives from the 2010 coalition government's austerity and cuts agenda.

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The quota innovation, gender and Indian politics: experience and prospects

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Barry

Palnitkar³

1999

Equal Opportunities International

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Local initiatives for working women: Feminism, economics, or both?

Cited by 3 publications

References 5 publications

Women’s Movements and New Public Management: Higher Education in Sweden and England

Women’s Movements and New Public Management: Higher Education in Sweden and England

Revisiting Jewson and Mason: The Politics of Gender Equality in UK Local Government in a Cold Climate

The quota innovation, gender and Indian politics: experience and prospects

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