2006 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Managing diversity
Authors: Veronica Coulshed, Audrey Mullender, David N. Jones, Neil Thompson
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Log inWith over 80 per cent of the social services workforce made up of women (Balloch et al., 1995), disability legislation catching up with sex and race discrimination and recent major strides in recruiting black students and staff, not to mention all the attention focused on anti-oppressive practice, we might like to think of social work organisations as being well ahead in terms of equality and diversity. A closer look, however, reveals that, despite advances, there is still a long way to go.