Feminist Perspectives on Employment Law
- ISBN-10
- 1135345465
- ISBN-13
- 9781135345464
- Category
- Law
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-03-04
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Authors
- Anne Morris, Thérèse O'Donnell
Description
Whilst equal pay, maternity rights and sex discrimination, including sexual harassment, have received attention from feminist scholars, there is an increasing awareness that it is the whole of the working environment that must be examined if real progress is to be made.
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