Getting gender on the agenda: The tale of two organisations

Women in Management Review

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 391-404

  Charlesworth, Sara ^a   Baird, Marian ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Action research; Equal opportunities; Gender; Organizational change

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547167466     PISSN: 09649425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09649420710761455     Document Type: Article

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