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CONSTRAINTS ON THE PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN FROM NON‐ENGLISH SPEAKING BACKGROUNDS AND AUSTRALIAN‐BORN WOMEN IN TRADE UNIONS
Author(s) -
Gale Fran
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1993.tb00929.x
Subject(s) - project commissioning , representation (politics) , publishing , trade union , gender studies , contrast (vision) , political science , demographic economics , sociology , labour economics , economics , law , artificial intelligence , politics , computer science
This paper compares traditional explanations given for women's under‐representation in union affairs with those given by a group of NESB and Australian‐born female members of a large New South Wales union. The women's explanations emerge in sharp contrast to traditionally‐held wisdom about women's union participation.