Women and training

By:

Wickham, Ann

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Philadelphia; Open University Press; 1986Description: 147 pISBN:

335151191

Subject(s):

Occupational training for women - Great Britain

DDC classification:

331.41330941 WIC

Summary: Ann Wickham asks why training opportunities for women are so poorly provided and how they can be improved. She begins by examining the whole concept of training, and asks how far it represents to women a part of the male rather than female world. She looks at notions of skill and how these have developed to devalue women's work. She tackles immediate post-school training in further education (paying particular attention to the MSC); training at work; and training in later life or at the point of return to work. For each of these areas she discusses the effects of economic and technological change; and explores geographical, historical and legislative influences. She deals with the prospects for positive discrimination and describes a number of feminist alternatives for women's training that are beginning to be developed in Britain.

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Ann Wickham asks why training opportunities for women are so poorly provided and how they can be improved. She begins by examining the whole concept of training, and asks how far it represents to women a part of the male rather than female world. She looks at notions of skill and how these have developed to devalue women's work. She tackles immediate post-school training in further education (paying particular attention to the MSC); training at work; and training in later life or at the point of return to work. For each of these areas she discusses the effects of economic and technological change; and explores geographical, historical and legislative influences. She deals with the prospects for positive discrimination and describes a number of feminist alternatives for women's training that are beginning to be developed in Britain.

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