This book helps us to better understand the problems women face in rising through the ranks and securing top positions, and offers some useful strategies for shattering the glass ceiling. It examines current gender inequalities in the labour market and in political and social life.

Finds that both the foreign-owned and nationally owned enterprises applied the principles of participatory management, and observes that there were more similarities than differences as regards conditions of work. Includes an overview of the retail sector in Canada.

Examines the situation of female researchers in the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Oganization, an Australian government agency.

Provides information on the situation in Barbados and Jamaica as it relates to employment, working conditions and labour relations in offshore data service enterprises, against the background of the ILO's Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy.

ILO pub. Working paper on the international migration of migrant workers in and out of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand - covers long term and short term migration, irregular migrants, recruitment, remittances, wages, wage differentials, skills, occupational structure, labour...

Analyses South Africa recruitment trends and their underlying economic determinants, finding that increasing costs are causing the Employment Bureau of Africa (TEBA) to reduce the radius of recruitment within the Southern African region. Examines the consequences for two communities: Shakawe...