Equal Opportunities International: Volume 5 Issue 1

Working Women in Japan

Hiroshi Tanaka

Japan is perhaps the worst of the top industrialised nations in its treatment of its female labour force. Although some improvements have been made, discrimination still exists in…

Working Women Abroad — Great Britain

Valerie Hammond

The number of women at work in the UK has increased significantly over the past 20–30 years. Women now constitute a substantial proportion of the total labour force. This increase…

Opportunities for Women to Acquire Gainful Employment in the Alternative Sector in Berlin

Gerda Lischke

The alternative sector still offers women substantial and meaningful advantages over the formal sector in employment. A project group, “Women in the Labour Market”, associated…

The Occupational Distribution of Women in the UK: the case of part‐time workers

Angela Dale

Women workers will find themselves at a disadvantage when competing in the labour market with men if they are not able to take advantage of promotion opportunities, regardless of…

Working Women Abroad — West Germany

Ariane Berthoin Antal, Camilla Krebsbach‐Gnath

Women workers in industrialised countries essentially face the same challenges: to achieve equal opportunities in the labour market in terms of quantity, type and level of…