01189pab a2200157 454500 180718b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Turner Thomas Women in the Zambian civil service: a case of equal opportunities? 14(1), Feb 1994, p.79-92 There is a paucity of empirical microlevel studies of women in the formal sector in developing countries. This article attempts to redress this deficit and focuses on the position of women in the Zambian civil service using information from a sample of personnel records. Although women are disproportionately represented in the civil service compared with other areas of the formal economy, the current positions of males and females are significantly different. However, the results of the survey are not easily encompassed in the prevailing theoretical frameworks and, rather surprisingly, it appears that it is age rather than gender that is the crucial explanatory variable. Finally, a number of possible explan Civil Service -- Zambia Women in the Civil Service -- Zambia O'Connor Pat Public Administration and Development 27104 27104 27104 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 AR27206 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR