Careers of Professional Women

First published in 1980, the skills required in many occupations traditionally entered by women are either learnt on the job or by means of relatively short formal training courses. This book, however, examines in some depth seven careers which require a minimum of three years' training.

List of contents

Foreword Baroness Seear. Introduction Audrey Ward and Rosalie Silverstone. 1. The Bimodal Career Audrey Ward and Rosalie Silverstone 2. Accountancy Rosalie Silverstone 3. Architecture Valerie Wigfall 4. Dentistry Brenda Fox and Margaret Seward 5. Medicine Mary Ann Elston 6. Nursing Jillian MacGuire 7. Physiotherapy Audrey Ward 8. Teaching R. Keith Kelsall 9. Summing Up Rosalie Silverstone and Audrey Ward. Notes on Contributors. Index.

About the author

Rosalie Silverstone and Audrey Ward

Summary

First published in 1980, the skills required in many occupations traditionally entered by women are either learnt on the job or by means of relatively short formal training courses. This book, however, examines in some depth seven careers which require a minimum of three years’ training.

Product details

• Authors: Rosalie Ward Silverstone
• Assisted by: Rosalie Silverstone (Editor), Silverstone Rosalie (Editor), Audrey Ward (Editor), Ward Audrey (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.08.2022
• EAN: 9781032300382
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3230038-2
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women and Work
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Gender studies: women, Sociology: work & labour, Gender studies: women and girls, Sociology: work and labour