Mothers in employment

Abstract

In any attempt to build up a modern employment policy in a highly‐developed society there are several inter‐related modules. One of these is relevant participation by employees in the decision‐making process; another relates to ownership of the business and the employees' stake in it. There are many more. One aspect of growing importance, one which until recently was not accepted as important but is increasingly asserting itself, is the position of women in society and, in particular, the role of women in the work force. Eventually this feature is destined to become one of the most important of all the aspects of employment and public attitudes towards it will come to be fundamentally modified. At present we are at the very beginning of this process of attitude‐changing and to this extent this is a new but absolutely‐essential field of action for the manager of human resources. It is another of these inescapable obligations which have considerably extended the field of responsibility of the trainer or the manpower change agent. We have already published several authoritative contributions in this topic area. One to which readers might care to refer was contained in our issue of March 1976, page 96, under the title of WOMEN AND WORK. We offer this present article for use as a starter session for in‐plant or college study and we shall add to it as the months go by. In May 1976 a conference was held at Brunei University under the title MOTHERS IN EMPLOYMENT: TRENDS AND ISSUES. This seminar produced a series of first‐class papers which have now been gathered together and published under the title of MOTHERS IN EMPLOYMENT. This 140 page booklet is available from Brunei University Management Programme, Kingston Lane, Uxbridge, Middlesex, price £1.95. We have selected it as the most suitable introduction to the topic available and in preparing this current article we have drawn heavily on it and quoted extensively and verbatim from it.

Citation

WELLENS, J. (1977), "Mothers in employment", Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 9 No. 3, pp. 112-116. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb003598