By David McClure
During the last century the British Royal family members have benefited from specific privileges like mystery wills to maintain their deepest wealth clear of public scrutiny. How can Prince Charles manage to pay for to stay so lavishly - many ask - and the way is the Queen in a position to bankroll different contributors of her relatives?
With the invention of unpublished royal wills, little-known royal public sale documents and recently-released Treasury papers, David McClure has pieced jointly a mosaic of the landed estate, jewelry and artistic endeavors that jointly varieties the bedrock of the royal family’s inherited fortune.
But like any inheritance stories it’s additionally a hugely human tale choked with grasping family, relations splits and skeletons within the closet – and one made all of the extra well timed by means of the present succession method wherein the Queen arms over a few royal tasks to the more youthful iteration.
Nosy and irreverent, Royal Legacy takes a peek at the back of the palace curtains.
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Currently, these changes are held back by interconnected barriers at different levels, from the level of individual identity to societal norms, as we have begun to illustrate in this paper. In particular, persistent workplace assumptions about work and ideal workers reinforce and reproduce gender inequities and prevent reciprocal changes between men and women. The intensification and invasiveness of work in the contemporary global context exacerbates these processes. For this reason, solutions to issues of gender inequity in reconciling paid work and family will not be achieved byattention to the situation in Europe alone.
Note 1. This was the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) 'Family 2002' module that has been drawn upon in a number of chapters in this volume. For a description of the ISSP programme, see lowell et a1. (1993). 2 Evolutions and Approaches to Equitable Divisions of Paid Work and Care in Three European Countries: a Multi-level Challenge Richenda Gambles, Suzan Lewis and Rhona Rapoport Despite growing numbers of women in the labour force, and varying national policies and workplace policies developed to support the reconciliation of paid work and family life, progress towards gender equity remains uneven and painfully slow across Europe.
However, the growth in women's employment has been mostly in terms of part-time work (OECD, 2001). , 2003). Workplaces As in the UK, the tendency has been to encourage, rather than legislate for, workplace change. There is much discussion of flexible work arrangements, but policies are most likely to be developed in large organisations, especially in the public sector or where women's labour is needed, and are also more likely to be taken up by women, leaving workplace cultures and structures unchanged (Den Dulk, 2001).
