2008 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Career and Career Development
Authors : Harriet Bradley, Geraldine Healy
Published in: Ethnicity and Gender at Work
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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In Chapter 3, we introduced the concept of the ‘career’ and defined it as the ‘the dialectical relationship between self and circumstance’ (1985). This relationship encapsulates perfectly the careers of the women in our study. To capture the richness and complexity of their careers is a challenge. We have charted already their experiences of exclusion in Chapter 8, and in Chapter 10 we shall explore their union careers.