The Rise of Professional Women in France : Gender and Public Administration Since 1830.

The Rise of Professional Women in France : Gender and Public Administration Since 1830.

Linda L. Clark traces several generations of French women in public administration, examining public policy, politics and attitudes, and women's work and education. This history of professional women in positions of administrative responsibility illuminates women's changing relationship to...

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Main Author: Clark, Linda L., 1942-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Women in the civil service > France > History.
Women public officers > France > History.
Women in the civil service
Women public officers
France
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminaries; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1: Public Roles for Maternal Authority: The Introduction of Inspectresses, 1830-1870; 2: Educating a New Democracy: School Inspectresses and the Third Republic; 3: Addressing Crime, Poverty, and Depopulation: The Interior Ministry Inspectresses; 4: Protecting Women Workers: The Labor Administration; Introduction: The First World War: A "1789" for Women?; 5: New Opportunities for Women in Central Government Offices, 1919-1929; 6: The Challenges of the 1930s for Women Civil Servants.
  • 7: Gendered Assignments in the Interwar Labor, Health, and Education Ministries8: Firings and Hirings, Collaboration and Resistance: Women Civil Servants and the Second World War; 9: After the Pioneers: Women Administrators since 1945; Select Bibliography; Index.

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