Women's Development in the UK and USA

Abstract

Reasons for the Project: During 1985 I decided to apply for a German Marshall Fellowship to visit the USA for a variety of reasons. I had lived there for seven years during the 1960s, right at the beginning of the women's movement. I was interested to return there and look at what had happened in the meantime, to see what the similarities and differences were between Britain and the United States in women's development. I also felt that many of the glossy articles about how the US has solved the problem of getting women into senior jobs and non‐traditional jobs were very much a front cover story, and I was interested to go behind the scenes. These were my main reasons for going, although I had one “hidden agenda” reason and that was the number of American companies with subsidiaries in Britain who seem in my experience to behave one way in issues connected with women in their home country and another way in this country.

Citation

Fritchie, R. (1986), "Women's Development in the UK and USA", Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 18 No. 1, pp. 16-17. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb004024