Women in Management

Management, like science and engineering, is an occupational area where women are severely under represented and consequently has been the focus of a number of positive-action training initiatives designed to increase the proportion of women in management. These initiatives have tended to cluster around two different strategies. One has been to target adult women and women 'returners' and to facilitate their entry into management jobs through the provision of special management-skills training courses for women. This has resulted in the development of a number of'Women into Management' courses delivered by educational institutions in both the further and higher education sectors. A second strategy has been to target mromen already in management, or deemed of'management potential' and this has led to the development of a range of employer-sponsored management training courses, designed to facilitate women's access to management opportunities and promotion within the context of their current employment. All of these initiatives have forged extraordinarily diverse and, often, very contradictory alliances. It has brought together employers, the education sector, statutory funding bodies (especially the Manpower Services Commission1 ), and an assortment of individuals and groups including management consultants, trainers and feminists. This article examines the effectiveness of these initiatiatives in the context of women's experience of management and assesses whether women in management has been a useful focus for feminist activity

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