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... of the managing director's 1. declared interest in EO, no statistics were available on the ethnic and gender distribution of the 1,400 workforce. However, direct observation of the workshop and offices revealed full-time white women working as packers and packer-checkers, and Asian women performing unskilled production tasks; white female employees filling most of the clerical posts, with only two women of assumed Asian background in junior positions; and the secretaries were mainly mature women. Except for the recently appointed white female Assistant Personnel Manager, white men are in all middle and senior management positions: technical staff are also men; there is a small male sales team working from home; and, apart from one crafstman and two night security guards of apparently Afro-Caribbean descent, white men do the semi-skilled and skilled tasks on the shop floor, work in the stores and as security staff. So, the overall scene reveals, at the bottom ...