Gender and Labor Union Leadership

这一研究规划项目将制定一项计划，研究妇女在何种条件下能够在工会中担任领导职务。该规划项目将使调查员能够探索为此目的使用以前未开发的数据来源的可行性，即自1960年以来美国工会每年向劳工部提交的LM-2报告。她将开始对数据进行编码并将其转换为机器可读形式的过程，并决定为她的样本选择哪个工会。这一项目将产生一项研究提案，该提案将审查工会为何制定一项或另一项关于妇女在工会领导层中的代表性的战略的历史条件。

This research planning project will develop a plan to study the conditions under which women have been able to obtain positions of leadership in labor unions. The planning project will allow the investigator to explore the feasibility of using a previously untapped source of data for this purpose, namely the LM-2 reports filed with Department of Labor by American Unions each year since 1960. She will begin the process of coding the data and converting them into machine readable form and decide which unions to choose for her sample. This project will result in a research proposal that will examine the historical conditions which account for why unions develop one or another strategy regarding the representation of women in the union leadership.