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Advancing gender reform in large-scale organisations: a new approach for practitioners and researchers (pdf 260kb)

This paper suggests a framework for researching gender issues in the workplaces of large organisations.

Based on a research project into gender relations within the Australian public sector, the paper provides guidance on how to undertake gender-related research in the workplace.

Issues covered include:

- Gender in organisations
- The concept of a gender regime
- Designing a research approach
- Undertaking fieldwork and analysing data
- Seeing gender in organizational contexts

The paper also provides lessons and recommendations to others wishing to research gender issues within organisations.

 

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