ABSTRACT
The politics of career development, in one form or another, have probably shaped women’s lives since the world began. In the last half of this twentieth century we have had the good fortune, and the parallel frustration, to participate in feminist debates and actions that have attempted to end, or at least ameliorate, the most negative career conditions for women. But as feminism has achieved certain success in gaining entry for some women to fields previously dominated by men, it has become evident that feminism has failed, thus far, to improve the continuing difficulties of the majority of women who still do what has long been called ‘women’s work’.
