New directions in managing women's trade union careers: Online learning

TY - JOUR

T1 - New directions in managing women's trade union careers

T2 - Online learning

AU - Kirton, Gill

AU - Greene, Anne Marie

PY - 2002/5/1

Y1 - 2002/5/1

N2 - This article is concerned with strategies for managing the careers of women who work in paid positions in the union movement. Recently there has been some debate about the positive potential offered by the use of ICTs in a variety of areas of trade union activity. We link this to debates about the role of trade union education in developing women's careers within trade unions by exploring the experiences of participants on a recent British Trades Union Congress (TUC) online course for women. The study suggests that the potentialities of ICTs in this sphere of trade union activity are mediated by a number of gendered constraints.

AB - This article is concerned with strategies for managing the careers of women who work in paid positions in the union movement. Recently there has been some debate about the positive potential offered by the use of ICTs in a variety of areas of trade union activity. We link this to debates about the role of trade union education in developing women's careers within trade unions by exploring the experiences of participants on a recent British Trades Union Congress (TUC) online course for women. The study suggests that the potentialities of ICTs in this sphere of trade union activity are mediated by a number of gendered constraints.

KW - Career development

KW - Internet

KW - Learning

KW - Trade unions

KW - Women

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84986043603&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1108/09649420210425318

DO - 10.1108/09649420210425318

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:84986043603

SN - 0964-9425

VL - 17

SP - 171

EP - 179

JO - Women in Management Review

JF - Women in Management Review

ER -