Gender and Employment in the Local Government Sector

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-0-415-87284-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Routledge Research in Employment Relations

This edited volume brings together empirical studies of gender and employment in the local government sector – around the world – and the ways in which gender plays a role in the recent restructuring of local government in industrialized democracies. Focusing not just on women employees but on male local government workers and the performance of masculinities in the local government sector, and taking a holistic view of gender equity in the local government environment, this book includes an examination of diverse geographical areas including Australia and New Zealand, North America, and Europe.

Through the use of multiple case studies and including an examination of women in the professions, women in trades, and women in administrative positions, a common theme of the book is the issue of fundamental change, which has occurred across the sector in many different countries. Theoretically rich and informed by contemporary gender theory and critical management studies, this volume will appeal to those interested in the subject of gender and local government employment as well as gender and critical management scholars.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pini, Barbara

McDonald, Paula

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landesverwaltung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction (Barbara Pini and Paula McDonald) 1. Leadership, Work, and Gendered Identity in a Local Government Organization (Jackie Ford, University of Leeds) 2. Gendered Impact of Intensification of Local Government Work (Bente Rusmussen, NTNU) 3. Worker in Local Government and Sexuality (Surya Monro, Leeds) 4. Restructuring and Gender in Local Government (Diana Worts, Bonnie Fox, and Peggy McDonough, University of Toronto) 5. Locating Gender Neutrality in Formal and Informal Aspects of Organizational Cultures in Local Government (Paivi Korvajarvi, University of Tampere, Finland) 6. Temporary Work in the Public Services (Hazel Conley, University of the West of England) 7. Local Government Reform and Women’s Resistance in Poland (Alison Stenning and Jane Hardy, University of Newcastle) 8. Masculinities and Change in Local Government (Elin Kvande, NTNU) 9. The EEO and Managerialism in New Zealand Local Government (Ian Brooks, Toby Harfield, and Graham Fenwick, University of Canterbury, NZ) Conclusion (Barbara Pini and Paula McDonald)

Über Autor(innen)

Barbara Pini is Professor at the John Curtin Institute for Public Policy, Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia. She is author of several books, including Gender and Rurality (with L. Bryant, Routledge, forthcoming 2009) and Men, Masculinities, and Leadership in Agricultural Organizations (2007).

Paula McDonald is Senior Lecturer in the School of Management, Queensland University of Technology.