Scottish government equality outcomes:pregnancy and maternity evidence review

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Women and unemployment : a case study of women's experiences of unemployment in Glasgow

This study investigates women's experiences of unemployment in Glasgow and will contribute to a literature in which there are very few studies on women's unemployment. The thesis seeks to challenge the marginality of women's unemployment in sociological discourses. The research is based on interviews with forty unemployed women and sixteen women engaged on Employment Training schemes in Glasgow. The research questions the assumptions and discourses of the mainstream sociological literature on work and unemployment. It highlights the ways in which these sociological discourses draw upon and give legitimacy to existing gendered ideologies about female roles. Contrary to the dominant sociological paradigm which marginalises the importance of women's unemployment, the evidence presented in this thesis demonstrates that waged work is a central and valued part of women's social identity. The data shows that in unemployment women lose their economic identity and this has a detrimental impact upon their social and domestic identities. Women's domestic role did not compensate for the loss of their paid employment. Rather, the experience of unemployment made women value waged work more

Justice as a Family Value:How a Commitment to Fairness is Compatible with Love

Many discussions of love and the family treat issues of justice as something alien. On this view, concerns about whether one’s family is internally just are in tension with the modes of interaction that are characteristic of loving families. In this essay, we challenge this widespread view. We argue that once justice becomes a shared family concern, its pursuit is compatible with loving familial relations. We examine four arguments for the thesis that a concern with justice is not at home within a loving family, and we explain why these arguments fail. We develop and defend an alternative conception of the justice-oriented loving family, arguing that justice can—and, for the sake of justice, should—be seen as a family value

Newly professionalised physiotherapists : symbolic or substantive change?

Purpose: There is renewed interest in the professions as a range of occupations pursue professionalisation projects. The purpose of this paper is turn analysis to an important omission in current research – the skills deployed in the work of these professions. Such research is necessary because skills determine the formal classification of occupations as a profession. Design/methodology/approach: Drawing on qualitative research, this paper explores the deployment of skills in work of one newly professionalised occupation in the UK’s National Health Service – physiotherapists. Findings: The findings point to a disconnect between how this occupation has become a profession (the skills to get the job, and related political manoeuvring by representative bodies) and the mixed outcomes for their skills deployment (the skills to do the job) in work as a profession. Originality/value: The paper provides missing empirical understanding of change for this new profession, and new conceptualisation of that change as both symbolic and substantive, with a “double hybridity” around occupational control and skill deployment for physiotherapists as a profession

Information seeking behaviour of electronic document and records management systems (EDRMS) users: implications for records management practices. Part 2

In the first article in this series, in the November 2007 issue of IQ, the authors described how they approached their study on whether the way RM professionals manage records in accordance with the ISO 15489 standard is consistent with the information seeking behaviour (ISB) of EDRMS users. Here, they continue their report by discussing their methodology

EDRMS Users' Information-Seeking Behaviour: Managerial and Training Challenges For Records Managers

Drawing on findings of their field study on the information-seeking behaviour of 40 Electronic Document & Records Management System (EDRMS) users in 4 organisations using different EDRMS – published in the last 3 issues of IQ – the authors here set out to alert records managers to the managerial and training challenges they need to consider to better serve their EDRMS users

Information seeking behaviour of electronic document and records management systems (EDRMS) users: implications for records management practices. Part 2

In the first article in this series, in the November 2007 issue of IQ, the authors described how they approached their study on whether the way RM professionals manage records in accordance with the ISO 15489 standard is consistent with the information seeking behaviour (ISB) of EDRMS users. Here, they continue their report by discussing their methodology

Intermediate reading exercises for use with the Durrell Analysis of Reading Difficulty.

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