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Overcoming barriers to women's workplace leadership: insights from the interaction of formal and informal support mechanisms in trade unions

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  • Mark Dean
  • Robert Perrett

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Women face gendered barriers to union leadership. In‐depth interviews with UK and Australian female senior trade union leaders investigated how mentoring strategies can help women overcome barriers to leadership. Formal mentoring is most important, but the interaction of mentoring and informal support networks bolsters gender equality and workplace democracy.

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  • Mark Dean & Robert Perrett, 2020. "Overcoming barriers to women's workplace leadership: insights from the interaction of formal and informal support mechanisms in trade unions," Industrial Relations Journal, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 51(3), pages 169-184, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:indrel:v:51:y:2020:i:3:p:169-184
    DOI: 10.1111/irj.12287
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