期刊名称：Just Labour : A Canadian Journal of Work and Society
电子版ISSN：1705-1436
出版年度：2004
卷号：4
出版社：York University
摘要：In The Most Difficult Revolution: Women and Trade Unions (1992), AliceCook claims that the relationship between women and unions is the mostdifficult revolution facing women. The Cornell conference in November 2003was dedicated to investigating the ways in which Cook's claim is still relevant.Scholars and activists who participated in the conference identifiedcontemporary problems facing women in their workplaces and in their unions.Women's under-representation in union leadership, lack of union representation,discrimination at the workplace and marginalization of women's issues withinunions were cited as problems faced by women workers across the globe.Underlying each of these problems is the relationship between work and family.As Arlene Kaplan Daniels noted in her opening speech, when discussing womenworkers and unions, a key issue is always the relationship between work andfamily. She pointed out that the ethos of the domestic code whereby women arerelegated to the home and are made responsible for the family is alive and well,and must be challenged. Barriers to women's participation in union activity, toadequate numerical representations of women in leadership positions, toincluding women's issues in bargaining agendas, and to providing safeworkplaces for women, are all fundamentally related to women's domesticresponsibilities
