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Description
This video asks questions of the cultural and structural barriers that women face as managers.
Metadata describing this Open University video programme
Item code: B640; VCR1
First transmission date: 1995
Published: 1995
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Duration: 00:56:00
Note: DOU8272 (unpaginated);DOU8349 (paginated)
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Producer: Jan Bright
Contributors: Marilyn Davidson; Maggie Semple
Publisher: BBC Open University
Keyword(s): Business climate; Career progression; Cultural constraints
Footage description: Footage - Graphic of 'An everyday encounter'. Actors playing harassment scene. Headlines of newspapers (3'29"-10'09") - BBC Television Centre. Pilot group for developing women managers. Mentor scheme. BBC White City (12'01"-13'59")- Women's experiences of being managers. Actors playing 'Ways women are expected to lead' scene, woman manager acting as cat, managers herding workforce into pen. Women's experiences of being managers. Women managers discussing how they progress in their careers (14'22"-34'48) - Actors in 'Level playing fields' scene, playing football (34'49"-40'50") - Women discussing being managers, home & work, barriers in the way of women (40'54"-47'26") - Actors in 'The mission', playing crew on a starship fighting stereotypes and breaking through the glass ceiling (47'27"-54'48").
Master spool number: DOU8272
Production number: FOUB007W
Videofinder number: 4889
Available to public: no