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Title: | Women in Zambian Civil Service: A Case of Equal Opportunities? |
Authors: | Turner, Thomas O'Connor, Pat |
Year: | 1994 |
Periodical: | Public Administration and Development |
Volume: | 14 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | February |
Pages: | 79-91 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Zambia |
Subjects: | women's employment civil service women Politics and Government Labor and Employment Women's Issues |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1002/pad.4230140106 |
Abstract: | This paper examines the position of women in the civil service of Zambia. It is based on an analysis of 497 individual civil service personnel records covering 20 ministries/departments that were randomly selected from the personnel files held at cabinet office in Lusaka. It appears that, although women in Zambia are unlikely to be employed in the formal sector, they constitute just under 40 percent of the random survey of the personnel records examined. Also, women appear to be broadly moving upwards to the same extent as men, a pattern that is not typical in developed or indeed less-developed countries. Three tentative explanations are advanced to explain this anomaly. First, the long-standing commitment of the State to equal opportunity policies, second, the shortage of appropriately qualified personnel of either gender, and, third, the declining status, prestige and income of the civil service itself as compared with, for example, the parastatal sector. Bibliogr., sum. |