{"id":734,"date":"2012-02-14T13:04:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T13:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/?p=734"},"modified":"2012-04-04T17:25:19","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T16:25:19","slug":"still-in-the-ghetto-experiences-of-secretarial-work-in-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2012\/02\/still-in-the-ghetto-experiences-of-secretarial-work-in-the-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Still in the Ghetto? Experiences of secretarial work in the 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Truss, Head of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kbs\/school\/bus-school-medway.html\">Kent Business School at Medway<\/a>, University of Kent has recently had an article published in the journal of <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.1468-0432.2012.00587.x\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\">Gender, Work and Organization<\/a> (Wiley): &#8216;Still in the Ghetto? Experiences of secretarial work in the 21st Century&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8216;Secretarial work has been described as one of the most persistently gendered of all occupations. Historically, it has been characterized as a ghetto occupation with three key features: low status and poor pay, narrow and feminized job content and poor promotion prospects. Twenty years ago, when a major study last took place in the UK, it was thought that new office technologies might transform the role, leading to a newly defined occupation equally appealing to both men and women. In this article, we report on the findings of a questionnaire survey involving 1011 secretaries. We found evidence of continuity and change. Secretaries are now better qualified and generally well-paid. A minority is undertaking complex managerial tasks. However, most secretaries continue to perform traditional tasks and career prospects for all remain bleak. We conclude that processes of role gender-typing are deeply entrenched and that secretarial work remains largely a ghetto occupation.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Professor Katie Truss can be contacted by email: <a href=\"mailto:K.truss@kent.ac.uk\">K.truss@kent.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Truss, Head of Kent Business School at Medway, University of Kent has recently had an article published in the journal of Gender, Work and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2012\/02\/still-in-the-ghetto-experiences-of-secretarial-work-in-the-21st-century\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2299,"featured_media":741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9890,124,9889,9891,9884,9111,9883],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}