Women and public service: barriers, challenges and opportunities

Table of Content;

1. Machine generated contents note: Why Write a Book on Women in Public Service Organizations? / Camilla Stivers
2. Principles Guiding the Book / Camilla Stivers
3. Barriers, Challenges, and Opportunities / Camilla Stivers
4. Outline of the Book / Camilla Stivers
5. From Diversity to Representation / Camilla Stivers
6. Equity-Based Arguments for Diversity / Camilla Stivers
7. The Consumerist Argument for Representative Bureaucracy / Camilla Stivers
8. Identity Diversity and Functional Diversity / Camilla Stivers
9. Diversity and the Challenge of Representing Groups / Camilla Stivers
10. Passive and Active Representation / Camilla Stivers
11. Work-Life Balance, Fit, or Satisfaction / Camilla Stivers
12. Diversity Theories / Camilla Stivers
13. Gender and Roles / Camilla Stivers
14. Implicit Bias / Camilla Stivers
15. Institutional Discrimination / Camilla Stivers
16. Key Terms / Camilla Stivers
17. Contents note continued: Employment Discrimination Legislation / Camilla Stivers
18. Sex-Based Employment Discrimination / Camilla Stivers
19. Equal Pay Legislation / Camilla Stivers
20. Disability and Genetics Legislation / Camilla Stivers
21. Legislation on Workplace Benefits / Camilla Stivers
22. Family Medical Leave / Camilla Stivers
23. Breastfeeding and the Law / Camilla Stivers
24. Publicly Supported Child Care and Education / Camilla Stivers
25. Reconsidering Policy: An Opportunity? / Camilla Stivers
26. Family Responsibility Discrimination, a New Frontier / Camilla Stivers
27. Policies by Political Leadership of the Executive Branch / Camilla Stivers
28. Affirmative Action (Executive Order 11246) / Camilla Stivers
29. Obama Administration's Leadership / Camilla Stivers
30. The Supreme Court and Landmark Rulings / Camilla Stivers
31. Contents note continued: Affirmative Action: University of Michigan Admissions Policies / Camilla Stivers
32. Equal Pay Act: Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire / Camilla Stivers
33. Implications for Title VII of the Civil Rights Act: Staub v. Proctor Hospital / Camilla Stivers
34. Dukes v. Wal-Mart / Camilla Stivers
35. Sex Equality and Federal Agencies / Camilla Stivers
36. Department of Labor / Camilla Stivers
37. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission / Camilla Stivers
38. National Science Foundation / Camilla Stivers
39. Workplace "Choices" / Camilla Stivers
40. Social Costs of Career: Trends in Marriage, Divorce, and Children / Camilla Stivers
41. Career Costs: Salvaging a Career by Exiting and Reentering, Downshifting, or Entrepreneurship / Camilla Stivers
42. Part-Time "Bad" Jobs / Camilla Stivers
43. Work-Life Balance Policies / Camilla Stivers
44. Contents note continued: Family and Medical Leave Act as the Floor / Camilla Stivers
45. Flexible Schedules / Camilla Stivers
46. Supportive Lactation Policies and Programs / Camilla Stivers
47. Child-Care and Elder-Care Benefits / Camilla Stivers
48. Women in Representative Institutions / Camilla Stivers
49. Overrepresentation and Underrepresentation in Public Administration / Camilla Stivers
50. Agency Segregation / Camilla Stivers
51. Position Segregation / Camilla Stivers
52. Occupational Segregation / Camilla Stivers
53. Nature of Work and Pay / Camilla Stivers
54. Occupational, Agency, and Position-Level Segregations / Camilla Stivers
55. Part-Time vs. Full-Time Work / Camilla Stivers
56. Entry and Reentry: "The Mommy Track" / Camilla Stivers
57. Human Capital Factors / Camilla Stivers
58. Contents note continued: Organization Type and Industry / Camilla Stivers
59. Years of Experience / Camilla Stivers
60. Collective Bargaining / Camilla Stivers
61. Education and Pay / Camilla Stivers
62. Authority Pays! / Camilla Stivers
63. Age / Camilla Stivers
64. Merit and Cost of Living / Camilla Stivers
65. Gender / Camilla Stivers
66. A New Glass Ceiling / Camilla Stivers
67. Bathers, Challenges, and Opportunities / Camilla Stivers
68. Mentoring / Camilla Stivers
69. Informal vs. Formal Mentoring / Camilla Stivers
70. Mentoring Functions / Camilla Stivers
71. Negotiating / Camilla Stivers
72. In the Workforce / Camilla Stivers
73. In the Home / Camilla Stivers
74. Workplace Violence / Camilla Stivers
75. Bullying / Camilla Stivers
76. Sexual Harassment / Camilla Stivers
77. Physical Violence / Camilla Stivers
78. Barriers / Camilla Stivers
79. Contents note continued: Challenges / Camilla Stivers
80. Opportunities / Camilla Stivers
81. Last Words / Camilla Stivers.

This book tackles the challenges that women face in the workplace generally and in the public sector particularly. While Women and Public Service spends time identifying and describing the problems that women faced in the past, it pays special attention to identifying possible remedies to these problems, and also surveys progress made in recent decades. The authors present the challenge of accommodating women in public sector organisations as both a fairness issue and also a human resources matter, as a fundamental prerequisite for recruiting the best and brightest talent.
Key content coverage:
The representation of women in public organisations, including occupational, agency and position level segregation
Issues of pay equity--legislation, equal worth measures, and the serious links between the issue of representation and equal pay
Special issues facing women in their workplace, including institutional climate, workplace violence, sexual harassment, social costs of career progression, and family-friendly policies.

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