Equal Opportunities International: Volume 27 Issue 1

Gender, professions and public policy: new directions

This article aims to provide an overview on key trends in public sector policy and professional development and how they intersect with gender and diversity. It seeks to explore…

Unpacking gendered professional power in the welfare state

Recent scholarship reveals the imagery of the professional as the “ideal citizen”. The linkage between professionalism and citizenship is here approached from the perspective of…

Nursing careers in France and Britain: age‐related policy matters

Taking into account strong intra‐European discrepancies between workforce models for women, such as part‐time work rates and the ability to have uninterrupted careers, this…

Reconfiguring Finnish welfare service workforce: Inequalities and identity

This study seeks to examine the reconfiguration of professional groups in welfare service work through the lens of gendered inequalities in order to develop an inclusive research…

Gendering social work in Russia: towards anti‐discriminatory practices

This article seeks to uncover the gendered nature of discourses in social services and social work textbooks and their impact on the professional identity of social workers in…

Gendering migration flows: physicians and nurses in Portugal

This article aims to explore the gendered dimensions of the heterogeneous path of non‐native graduates in nursing and medicine in the Portuguese National Health Service, including…

Who staffs the US leaning tower? Organisational change and diversity

The paper aims to argue that US colleges and universities resemble a “leaning tower” with ever expanding layers of administrators and managers who control and dominate university…

Reinventing gender in higher education: Conference report: 5th European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education, Berlin, Germany, 28‐31 August 2007

This article aims to address topical issues in the debate on gender (in)equality in higher education in Europe and beyond, and highlights future perspectives of research and…

Migrant Nurses: Motivation, Integration, and Contribution

Nurses on the Move: Migration and the Global Health Care Economy

Gender, political participation and health care in India