Is the practice of equal opportunities management keeping pace with theory? Management of sex equality in the financial services sector in Britain and Turkey

Human Resource Development International

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 43-67

  Ozbilgin, Mustafa F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Britain; Equal Opportunities; Equality Management; Financial services Sector; Sex Equality; Turkey

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037941672     PISSN: 13678868     EISSN: 14698374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/136788600361939     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Acker, J. (1990) 'Hierarchies, jobs, bodies:a theory of gendered organisations', Gender and Society, 4:139--58.
2. Adler, N. J. and Izraeli, D. N. (cds) (1988) Women in Management Worldwide, New York:M. E. Sharpe.
3. Alston, A. (1987) Equal Opportunities:A Careers Guide, London:Penguin.
4. Arat, Y. (1992) '1980'ler Turkiyesi'nde kadin hareketi:liberal Kemalizm' in radikal nzantisi', in N. Arat (ed.) Turkiye'de Kadin Olgusu, Istanbul:Say, pp. 75--95.
5. Ashburner, L. (1988) 'Just inside the counting house:women in finance', in A. Coyle and J. Skinner (eds) Women and Work, London:Macmillan.
6. BIFU (Banking Insurance and Finance Union) (1991) Equality in Action, London:BIFU.
7. BIFU (1995) Employment Statistics, London:BIFU.
8. Cockburn, C. (1989) 'Equal opportunities:the short and long agenda', Industrial Relations Journal, 20(3):213-25.
9. Cockburn, C. (1991) In the Way of Women:Men's Resistance to Sex Equality in Organisations, London:Macmillan.
10. Cockburn, C. (1996) 'Strategies for gender democracy:strengthening the representation of trade union women in the European social dialogue', The European Journal of Women V Studies 3:7--26.
11. Collinson, D. L. (1987) 'Banking on women:selection practices in the financial sector', Personnel Review, 16:12--20.
12. Crompton, R. and Sanderson, K. (1994) 'The gendered restructuring of work in the finance sector', in A. M. Scott (ed.) Gender, Segregation and Social Change, Oxford:Oxford University Press.
13. Crow, S. M. (1995) 'Priorities of hiring discrimination:who is at greatest risk--women, blacks, or homosexuals?', Academy of Management:Rest Papers Proceedings, Vancouver, Canada, 6-9 August, pp. 443-7.
14. DaIy, M. (1978) Gyn/Ecology:The Mctacthics of Radical Feminism, Boston, MA:Beacon.
15. Dcx, S. and Walters, P. (1989) 'Women's occupational status in Britain, France and the USA:explaining the difference', Industrial Relations Journal, 20(3):203--12.
16. DIE (Devlet Istatistikler Enstitusu) (1993) Statistical Indicators 1923-1991, Istanbul:DIE.
17. DIE (Devlet Istatistikler Enstitusu) (1994b) Work Statistics, Istanbul:DIE.
18. DIE (Devlet Istatistikler Enstitusu) (1995) Women in Statistics 1927--1992, Istanbul:DIE.
19. Douglas, D. (1995) 'Innovation in equal opportunities', Gender and Life in Organisations Conference, University of Portsmouth Business School, 9 September.
20. Duncan, S. (1996) Obstacles to a successful equal opportunities policy in the European Union', The European Journal of Women's Studies, 3:399--422.
21. EOC (1994) The Inequality Gap, London:Government Publications.
22. EOC (1995) Great Britain:Some Facts About Women, London:Government Publications.
23. EOC (1996) Some Facts about Women, London:Government Publications.
24. Ferguson, K. (1984) The Feminist Case against Bureaucracy, Philadelphia:Temple University Press.
25. Fletcher, J. K. (1995) 'Radically transforming work for the 21st century:a feminist reconstruction of "real" work', Best Papers Proceedings:Academy of Management Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 6-9 August.
26. Foster, J. (1990) 'Equality and the future', in E. Currie ct al. (eds) What Women Want, London:Sidgwick & Jackson pp. 81-92.
27. Furchtgott-Roth, D. and Stolba, C. (1998) 'Women don't need equal pay day', Investor's Business Daily, 6 April.
28. Gray, R. (1996) Guide to Working in Finance, London:Penguin.
29. Hakim, C. (1979) Occupational segregation:a comparative study of the degree and pattern of the differentiation between men and women's work in Britain, the United States and other countries', Department of Employment Research Papers 9:November.
30. Hakim, C. (1996) Key Issues in Women's Work:Female Heterogeneity and the Polarisation of Women's Employment, London:Athlone Press.
31. Harker, L. (1995) 'Towards the family-friendly employer', in J. Shaw and D. Perrons (eds) Making Gender Work:Managing Equal Opportunities, Buckingham:Open University Press, pp. 89-107.
32. Healy, G. (1999) 'Structuring commitments in interrupted careers', Gender, Work and Oganisation, 6(4).
33. Human Development Report (1995) London:United Nations Publications.
34. Humphries, J., Horrell, S. and Rubery, J. (1992) 'The Single European Market and employment in the banking sector', in R. M. Lindley (ed.) Women's Employment:Britain in the Single European Market, London:HMSO, pp. 126-40.
35. Hunter, L. and Rimmer, S. (1995) 'An economic exploration of the UK and Australian experiences', in J. Humphries and J. Rubery (eds) The Economics of Equal Opportunities, Manchester:Equal Opportunities Commission.
36. Jewson, N. and Mason, D. (1986) 'The theory and practice of equal opportunities policies:liberal and radical approaches', Sociological Review, 34(2):307--34.
37. Kandiyoti, D. (1997) Cariyclcr, Bacilar, Yurttaslar:Kimlikler ve Toplumsal Donusumler, Istanbul:Metis Yayinlari
38. Kerfoot, D. and Knights, D. (1993) 'Management, masculinity and manipulation:from paternalism to corporate strategy in financial services in Britain', Journal of Management Studies, 30(4):659 77.
39. Keskin, B. (1999) 'The dilemma of women's activism in Turkey:to be (modem) or not to he?', MA thesis in Social Sciences, University of Chicago, June.
40. Köktürk, M. (1997) 'Marmara Universitesi gene kaynaklari verimli kullaniyor', Human resource Dergisi,1:39.
41. Lees, S. and Scott, M. (1990) 'Equal opportunities:rhetoric and action', Gender and Education, 2(3):333-43.
42. Lewin, T. (1998) 'US colleges begin to ask, "where have the men gone?"', The New york Times, 6 December-
43. Lowery', M. (1995) 'The war on equal opportunity', Batch Enterprise, 25:1--5.
44. Morgan, D. (1996) 'The gender of bureaucracy', in D. Collinson and J. Hearn (eds) Men as Manager, Management as Men:Critical Perspectives on Men, Masculinities and Managenents, London:Sage.
45. Morgen, S. (1994) 'Personalizing personnel decisions in feminist organisational theory and practice', Human Relations,47(6):665--84.
46. Morrison, A. M. (1992) The New Leader, San Francisco:Jossey-Bass.
47. Morrison, A. M. and Von Glinow, M. A. (1990) 'Women and minorities in management', American Psychologist, 45(2):200--8.
48. Morrison, A. M., White, R. P., van Velsor, E. and The Centre (or Creative Leadership (1987) Breaking the Glass Ceiling, New York:Addison-Wesley.
49. Ozbilgin, M. F. and Woodward, D. (1999) '"Belonging" and "otherness":sex equality in banking in Turkey and Britain', a paper presented at the Seventh International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, Tromso, Norway, 20-6 Tune.
50. Paglia, C. (1995) Vamps and Tramps, London:Penguin.
51. Perrons, D. and Shaw, J. (eds) (1995) 'Recent changes in women's employment in Britain,' in Making Gender Work Managing Equal Opportunities, Buckingham:Open University Press, pp. 19--32.
52. Ramsay, K. and Parker, M. (1992) 'Gender bureaucracy and organisational culture', in M. Savage and A. Witz (eds) Gender and Burcaucracy, London:Blackwell, pp. 253--76.
53. Rossilli, M. (1997) 'The European Community's policy on the equality o(women:From Treaty of Rome to the present', The European of Women's Studies4:63--82.
54. Rutherford, S. (1995) 'The threat of diversity', F Review, March:9.
55. Schwartz, F. N. (1992) 'Women as a business imperative', Harvard Business Review, March-April:105--13.
56. Seyman, Y. (1992) Kadin pe Scudika, Ankara:Sosyal Demokrasi Yayinlari.
57. Shaw, J. and Perrons, D. (eds) (1995) 'Introduction:gender work', in Making Gender Work:Management I:QualOppornitities, Buckingham:Open University' Press.
58. Stamp, P. and Robarts, S. (1986) Positive Action:Gabanging the Workplace for Women, London:National Council (or Civil Liberties.
59. Witz, A. and Savage, M. (1992) 'The gender of organisations', in M. Savage and A. Witz (eds) Gender and Burcaiicracy, London:Blackwell, pp. 3--62.
60. Woodward, D. and Ozbilgin, M. F. (1998) 'Ingiltere ve Turkiye'de firsat esitligi', öneri, 2(9):35--40.