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  title info:
    title: Black women in management
    sub title: paid work and family formations
  name:
    name part: Farmer, Diane Chilangwa.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 224 pages ; 23 cm
  abstract: "Black Women in Management highlights the trials, tribulations and achievements of professional and managerial black African women who now form part of the ever increasing number of women in paid employment worldwide. Focusing on the career and family lives of professional and managerial black African women originating from Sub-Saharan Africa and on the lives of black African women living and working within the corporate private sector in Johannesburg and London, this book explores how such women, with relatively similar colonial histories, cultures, career and professional backgrounds, handle their complex social positioning.As black African women with careers in major cities on opposite sides of the globe, the professional and managerial women, or transnational and emerging black elite women in the book are unique both in the workplace and in their communities. Although the women are part of the majority population in South Africa, they remain minorities within the professional and managerial circles of South Africa's corporate private sector. This is despite a strong sense amongst some South Africans that of all historically disadvantaged South Africans, black African women have benefited the most from employment equality polices. In the UK, black Africans form part of the growing black and minority ethnic (BME) groups in the country. However, while black African women form part of this growing black African community in the country, they remain minorities within the UK population, but also remain minorities in their role as professional and managerial women within the corporate private sector. This is in spite of black Africans having fairly high rates of higher education amongst the country's BME population. Black Women in Management identifies some of the differences and/or similarities that exist between these women's career choices and progression and explores how they address socio-cultural and gendered expectations of domestic, social and caring commitment…
  table of contents: Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Feminist Theory, Organisational Theory and Black African Women2. Feminism and the Intersection of Gender, Race/Ethnicity and Class in Black Women's Lives3. Women in Professional and Managerial Occupations: An Overview4. Feminist Theory and Researching the Other5. South African Employment Equity Policies: Success or Failure?6. UK Employment Equity Policies and Their Transnational Recipients7. Career Woman, Mother, Wife or Daughter: Untangling the Web and Finding a Balance8. Where to From Here.
  note: Diane Chilangwa Farmer.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-sa---
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Ethics
  subject:
    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior
  subject:
    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Workplace Culture
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
  subject:
    topic: Women, Black
    geographic: South Africa
    geographic: Johannesburg
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Women, Black
    geographic: England
    geographic: London
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Women executives
    geographic: South Africa
    geographic: Johannesburg
  subject:
    topic: Women executives
    geographic: England
    geographic: London
  subject:
    topic: Organizational behavior
    geographic: South Africa
    geographic: Johannesburg
  subject:
    topic: Organizational behavior
    geographic: England
    geographic: London
  classification: HQ1800.5.Z9 J644 2013
  classification: 331.4/81658008996
  classification: BUS008000 BUS085000 BUS097000 SOC008000
  identifier: 9781137335425 (hardback)
  identifier: 1137335424 (hardback)
  identifier: 2013048275
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 131205
    record change date: 20151206091908.0
    record identifier: in00003427794
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng