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Women's prospects for leadership in social welfare: a political economy
Abstract
A study provided data that showed that white and black women (and black men) are disadvantaged in social welfare organizations, in comparison to white men. While this is no surprise, it indicates that efforts to improve women's prospects for leadership will need to take race/ethnicity into account. A political economy perspective suggests that women in social welfare will have to cooperate with activists of many persuasions to improve their prospects. Also suggested is that fundamental change can be accomplished only by political struggles that challenge the political economy and ideology of status quo arrangements. Definitions of social welfare leadership, decisions on compensation and status, and determination of whether service workers, most of whom are women, are leaders are political economy questions. To have a role in answering them, women in social welfare must, themselves, enjoin the polity.
Journal
(1989)
vol13
no3
pages117-143
Categories
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Diversity
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Women
