Gender and Labor Union Leadership

本研究规划项目将制定一项计划， 妇女获得职位的条件 工会的领导力。 该规划项目将允许 研究人员探索使用以前的 这是一个尚未开发的数据源，即LM-2报告 美国工会每年向劳工部提出申请， 1960. 她将开始对数据进行编码并转换 它们转换成机器可读的形式，并决定选择哪些工会 她的样本。 该项目将产生一项研究提案， 研究解释为什么工会 制定一个或另一个关于代表性的战略， 工会领导层中的妇女。

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.