Union membership in South Australia, 1993

Women form a lower level of union membership than men, this represents a major recruitment challenge to unions. Unions are currently employing a number of different tactics to recruit and involve women, this study aims to help refine those strategies. This study looks at areas such as: are women less pro-union than men, do they join unions for different reasons to men, do they use and are they as happy with their unions as men, are they less active in their unions than men and why and what can be done to increase their level of activism. This study surveyed union members in six unions in South Australia. The main variables were the respondents involvment in their respective unions, what motivated it, what restricted it and what unions could do to make things easier for members to be involved. The background variables are sex, age, occupation and income