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Peer reviewedDevos, Anita – Studies in Continuing Education, 1996
Argues that adult education discourse about the workplace uncritically adopts management perspectives and pays inadequate attention to gender and power issues. States that understanding gender as an organizing principle provides insights into these issues that can be applied to organizational change. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Corporate Education, Feminism, Gender Issues
Peer reviewedConnole, Helen – Studies in Continuing Education, 1996
Discussions of knowledge workers are gender blind and ignore or devalue women's work. A more useful conception of the worker as cyborg illuminates questions of ownership of skills and knowledge and the blurring of boundaries between humans and technologies. (SK)
Descriptors: Employed Women, Gender Issues, Job Training, Skilled Workers
