David Kelleher Knihy

At a time when some corporate women leaders encourage their peers to 'lean in' for greater opportunities, this book highlights the underlying structures of organizational culture that sustain gender inequality. It argues that transforming unspoken, informal institutional norms is crucial for achieving gender equity in organizations. Drawing on interviews with 30 leaders who have advanced gender equality, international case studies, and nearly fifteen years of experience from a collaborative of gender equality experts, the book showcases diverse examples. From Dalit women's groups in India fighting structural discrimination in a major employment program to activists challenging the UN Security Council on mass rape as a war tactic, these narratives inspire readers to confront the deep-rooted structures of gender discrimination in policies and practices. Targeted at practitioners, policymakers, donors, students, and researchers focused on gender and organizational change, it provides a widely tested analytical tool—the Gender at Work Analytical Framework—to identify and address the often hidden structures of gender bias and to develop effective strategies for change.

Significant concerns about the poor health and prevalence of chronic illness amongst a number of ethnic minority populations have led to heightened debates about how best to improve the situation. For some the answer is to see their experiences as part of the general social class inequality in health, but recent evidence questions the extent to which social class can explain the variations in health which ethnic minorities experience. Researching the Cultural Differences in Health offers a range of accounts of how people in ethnic minority groups perceive and manage their illness. Some of the chapters focus on Bangladeshi, and other South Asian groups, as well as Afro-Caribbeans and Irish people. The illness conditions discussed include diabetes, hypertension, sickle-cell disorder, mental illness and coronary heart disease. This book will provide invaluable reading for those involved in providing health services for ethnic minorities, and all lecturers and students in medical and nursing education as well as those studying sociology and social administration.