This study questions the effects that discrimination has had on aviation and what changes, if any, can be expected in the near future. The central theme of the study is discrimination, specifically racial discrimination, sex discrimination and age discrimination. Of particular importance is the discriminatory role that various government agencies have played in labeling a person unfit to serve as a pilot simply because that person happens to be a woman, black or has reached a certain chronological age. / This study questions the position taken by such institutions as the International Civil Aviation Organization, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Joint Aviation Authorities. Where possible, an attempt has been made to show good leadership on the part of these institutions as well as indicate where good leadership was partially or completely missing. The role the courts have played or failed to play over the years in determining the issues of discrimination in aviation has also been included in the study. Case law is used as extensively as possible to trace the positions taken by plaintiffs and defendants in attempting to change what they perceived as discriminatory or unfair law. / The text also includes legislation that addresses issues of discrimination passed by various legislative bodies as well as the efforts of individual organizations, such as the Professional Pilots Federation, the International Federation of Air Line Pilots Associations and others, to end discriminatory practices in aviation.

This thesis analyzes discrimination against women on labor market and stresses the influence of social values on the allocation of labor. This influence can be observed in job segregation itself and in special working conditions associated with typically female jobs. This influence is part of a mechanism of job rationing. / All social institutions (churches, family, political parties...) share a common history characterized by a strict vision of sex-role segregation. The roles of men and women in the labour market, an important social institution, will reflect this sex-role segregation. / Job segregation has long been viewed by many economists as an exogenous phenomenon... a matter of "tastes". But in this thesis, it is suggested that job segregation, as well as other aspects of the treatment of women on the labor market, is a rationale response by society to job scarcity. / Working conditions associated with typically female jobs, for example, are not technologically determined but are part of a mechanism of job rationing: in maintaining women's instability on labor market, low wages and short job ladders induce women to leave the labor market when they are no longer wanted. The evolution of women's participation rates shows the relationship between social values dealing with paid work for women and the needs of female labor force. / This vision of the labor market is corroborated by an analysis of working conditions in Montreal office jobs. Detailed data for eight Montreal firms were used in this research. The results indicate that to understand the treatment of women office workers, it is important to distinguish between two groups of firms: those where most office workers are males and those where most are females. In the male dominated firms female workers enjoy much better wages and other working conditions. And, as a result, female labor turnover is apparently not different from male labor turnover in these firms.

<font face="Arial">This study investigated the attitudes and responses of male employees to the implemention of the Gender Equity Strategy and considered the implementation for the development of a gender education and training intervention. The study investigated the initial resistance to the introduction and implementation of the Gender Equity Strategy at the Polymer Plant by male employees. </font>

<p>The aim of this study was to investigate the barriers that impede the career advancement of women at an auditing firm in the Western Cape. These include internal and external barriers. More specifically, the study aimed to establish whether significant differences exist between women in different age groups, job levels, race groups and single, divorce/widowed and married groups in the firm, regarding their views in relation to their own career advancement.</p>

This thesis examines seven Victorian high schools between 1905 and 1945 to see it the educational experiences provided there had an impact on the paid and unpaid working lives of the girls who attended. It outlines some of the theoretical problems associated with both the history of work and the education of girls and places these within the context of increased state involvement in society during this period.

This thesis explores the sexual division of labour in three worksites associated with the Western Australian Fishing industry: fishers' households, a seafood processing company and fishing vessels. There has been no previous substantial study of the labour of women in Australian fishing industries. My research has been primarily undertaken by interviewing women and men who work in the Western Australian fishing industry, and my findings are presented through a comparison with overseas literature relative to each site. As I found, in the households of fishermen, women do unpaid and undervalued labour which includes servicing men and children; managing household finances and operating fishing enterprises. In seafood processing companies women are allocated the lowest paid and least rewarding work which is regarded as "women's work". On-the factory floor issues of class, race/ ethnicity and gender intersect so that the majority of women employed in hands-on processing work are migrant women froma non-English speaking background. The majority of women who work at sea are cook/ deckhands who are confronted by a rigid sexual division of labour, and work in a hyper-masculine workplace. The few other women who have found a niche which enables them to enjoy an outdoor lifestyle while they earn their own living, are those who work as autonomous independent small boat fishers. In each site there is evidence that women, individually and collectively, exercise some power in determining how and where they work, but they remain marginalised from the more lucrative sites of the industry, and have limited access to economic and social power.

Thesis (M.A.)--Baylor University, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 42-45).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Adelaide, Dept of Politics, 1981. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 117-125).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Melbourne, Dept. of History/Women's Studies, 1997. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 343-376).

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Western Sydney, 2004. / Includes bibliography.