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The social construction of gendered equal opportunities in UK universities: a case study of women technicians

Jackie Goode

Loughborough University

Barbara Bagilhole

Loughborough University

This article reports on research into the organizational culture of a UK university, and examines the ways in which the use of equal oppor tunities (EO) concepts and the construction of women's identities are both shifting and contradictory. A case study of women technical staff and their male managers reveals how such ambiguities act as control devices to keep women in their (subordinate) place, while preserving an image of good EO practice. The authors do not share a view of EO poli cies as having failed as a transformational strategy, but call rather for those interested in pro-equity change to be highly-tuned to the shifting ground on which the social construction of EO takes place, as different groups struggle for power. Women themselves might be well advised to direct the communicative and collaborative skills they are seen here to use to support each other in subordinate and isolated positions, towards collective action designed to make their own definitions of their situ ations prevail.

Critical Social Policy, Vol. 18, No. 55, 175-192 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/026101839801805503
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