Outputs (34)

Women's formal networking: The relationship between networking activities and power (2022)
Journal Article

This article examines the networking that takes place within formally organized internal (organization-based) and external (industry-based) women engineers' networks. Drawing upon 48 interviews with women engineers, across a number of industries and... Read More about Women's formal networking: The relationship between networking activities and power.

Inclusion: The DNA of leadership and change (2019)
Report

This report, commissioned by the NHS Leadership Academy, sets out the evidence base for Building Leadership For Inclusion (BLFI) – an ambitious new programme of work that aims to (1) raise the level of ambition, (2) quicken the pace of change,
and (... Read More about Inclusion: The DNA of leadership and change.

Transparency and the gender pay gap (2018)
Book Chapter

Transparency is central to the concept of equal pay since, without it, equality or the lack of it cannot be established. Despite this seemingly obvious logic there remains a failure in social, economic and legal systems to deliver transparent pay
sy... Read More about Transparency and the gender pay gap.

The Gender Pay Gap and Social Partnership in Europe: Findings from "Close the Deal, Fill the Gap" (2018)
Book

The gender pay gap (GPG) exists in every European country, but it varies considerably, even in EU member states covered by the same legal principles on pay equality. Part of the variation can be explained by different patterns of social partnership.... Read More about The Gender Pay Gap and Social Partnership in Europe: Findings from "Close the Deal, Fill the Gap".

National frameworks and the gender pay gap in Italy, Poland and the UK: Comparing oranges with apples? (2018)
Book Chapter

This chapter considers the legal, economic and industrial relations context with reference to the three countries on which the research focuses: Italy, Poland and the UK. As the title of the chapter suggests, drawing on Locke and Thelen’s
(1995) sem... Read More about National frameworks and the gender pay gap in Italy, Poland and the UK: Comparing oranges with apples?.

Decentralisation and the gender pay gap in the UK context: Case studies (2018)
Book Chapter

This chapter considers the UK case from the perspective of local government, financial services sector and rail (infrastructure) sector. Following the aims of the ‘Close the Deal, Fill the Gap’ project, this UK-focused chapter considers the interacti... Read More about Decentralisation and the gender pay gap in the UK context: Case studies.

The Good, the Not So Good and the Ugly: Gender Equality, Equal Pay and Austerity in English Local Government (2018)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2018. Drawing on theories of responsive and reflexive legislation and gender mainstreaming, this article examines the implementation of the gender equality duty and the Single Status Agreement in five English local authorities between... Read More about The Good, the Not So Good and the Ugly: Gender Equality, Equal Pay and Austerity in English Local Government.

Advancing gender equality in the construction sector through public procurement: Making effective use of responsive regulation (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018, The Author(s) 2018. Labour market segregation continues to be a major barrier to gender equality, with the construction industry an example of a particularly male-dominated sector. Drawing on evidence from the Women into Construction project,... Read More about Advancing gender equality in the construction sector through public procurement: Making effective use of responsive regulation.

Gender equality and political change in Northern Ireland (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Most examples of political change in recent times have had negative connotations for equality. By comparison equality has been at the centre of positive political change in Northern Ireland (NI). Stemming from the Belfast Agreement in 1998, non-dis... Read More about Gender equality and political change in Northern Ireland.

A review of action plans developed by public authorities in relation to their statutory equality and good relations duties (2017)
Report

This review, commissioned by the Equality Commission for NI (Commission), examines the development of Equality Action Plans (EAPs) by public authorities in Northern Ireland. The statutory equality and good relations duties set out in s.75 of the Nort... Read More about A review of action plans developed by public authorities in relation to their statutory equality and good relations duties.