... This can also be closely linked to Griffins research on office workers who further supports these findings stating that the majority of secretaries/office workers are women however "only 14% of office managers are women" (Taylor, P et al., (1995) P135). P137). This research shows that the women to men ratio in the office environment is increasing however "women workers are overwhelmingly to be found in work settings of a routinised kind, and at the bottom of the hierarchy of authority in office and with few of the career opportunities open to men." (Giddens, A. (1986) P122) Therefore this cannot be interpreted as involving a significant move towards greater sexual equality within the productive system. There is a similar pattern with office managers to that of secondary school heads. Presenting us with assumptions that although men and women may begin in a similar employment pool, female promotion aspects are lower and ...

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