Handbook on Gender and Public Sector Employment

Edited by Hazel Conley, Professor of Human Resource Management, Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, UK and Paula Koskinen Sandberg, Assistant Professor in Organizational Communication, Aalto University School of Business, Department of Management Studies, Finland

• Contents:1 Introduction to the Handbook on Gender and Public Sector Employment 1Hazel Conley and Paula Koskinen SandbergPART I GENDER AND THE NEO-LIBERAL STATE AS EMPLOYER2 The state as employer (and regulator) of care services in Germany 10Karin Gottschall and Ruth Abramowski3 Real utopias at work. Conflicts and dreams among nurses in the public sector 22Paula Mulinari and Rebecca Selberg4 Tensions between welfare services and competitiveness: public sectorwages in competitive corporatism and the social democratic gender regime 36Miikaeli Kylä-Laaso5 The role of the state in promoting gender equality in public transportemployment: evidence from the Global South 50Tessa Wright6 Gender, class and the meritocratic ideal. The case of the life sciences inItalian academia 64Camilla Gaiaschi7 Gendered employment in public universities: the influence ofneo-liberal reforms and union policies in the case of Iceland 78fiorger›ur Einarsdóttir and Finnborg S. SteinflórsdóttirPART II GENDER AND WORKING CONDITIONS IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR8 Overcoming ‘administrative man’? Redoing gender in Australian publicservices 94Sue Williamson and Linda Colley9 Empowering or depleting women’s work? Public sector reform andsmall-scale entrepreneurship in Swedish eldercare 108Helene Brodin and Elin Peterson10 The dynamics influencing women to become teachers in the publicsector of Pakistan 122Mahwish Khan11 Lean management and hybrid masculinization – a case study from theFinnish healthcare 136Timo Aho and Laura Mankki12 Gender differences among city managers in the United States 150Beth M. Rauhaus, Kathryn E. Webb Farley and Robert D. Eskridge13 The brass cliff? Women police chiefs and police reform 163Cara E. Rabe-Hemp, Amie M. Schuck and John C. NavarroPART III WOMEN’S PAY, REWARD AND PENSIONS IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR14 Evidencing women’s progress in Aotearoa New Zealand’s public service 176Jane Parker, Noelle Donnelly, Janet Sayers, Amanda Young-Hauser, PatriciaLoga, Selu Paea and Shirley Barnett15 The devil is in the detail: how neoliberal design limited the successfulimpact of pay equity policy in New Zealand 193Katherine Ravenswood16 Regulating women’s pay in Finland and the UK – the role of the public sector 205Hazel Conley and Paula Koskinen Sandberg17 Limits of accountability: gender pay audits in Swedish municipalities 219Minna Salminen-Karlsson and Anna Fogelberg Eriksson18 Examining gender-based inequalities in US public sector administrativepositions over time 234Valerie H Hunt, Larra Rucker, Melissa A Taylor and Brinck KerrPART IV WOMEN’S REPRESENTATION AND VOICE IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR19 Trade union campaigns for early childcare and school secretarial workin Ireland 250Pauline Cullen20 Representation and voice in two feminised health professions 264Cécile Guillaume and Gill Kirton21 Rethinking exit and voice in the crisis of care – collective repertoiresamong welfare workers in Sweden 278Anna Ryan Bengtsson22 The state monetary deficit is carried on women’s backs barriers tounion action in the neo-liberalised employment of teachers and socialworkers in Israel 292Orly BenjaminPART V GENDER, PANDEMIC AND PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYMENT23 An exploration into Black and Asian healthcare workers in the UnitedKingdom’s National Health Service being disproportionally affected byCovid-19 307Beverley Brathwaite24 Underfunding of nursing education and the precarious employmentconditions of nurses: an exploration of contributing factors, COVID-19pandemic implications, and structural solutions 320Virginia Gunn, Michael Villeneuve, Patricia O’Campo and Carles Muntaner25 Examining the experiences of Canadian women police duringCovid-19: a liminal space for cultural change 335Debra Langan, Carrie Sanders and Danielle Thompson26 Public institutions and home-based teleworking in times of pandemic:a case study at the University of Valencia 348Isabel Pla-JuliánIndex

‘Conley and Sandberg have brought together an impressive group of authors to uncover the reality of work in the public sector from multiple national contexts. This international collection provides insight into the dominant driving forces shaping public sector employment and the differential impact on a diversity of workers in different national settings.’