Gender equity in Australian university staffing [EIP 97/18]
This report contains information that identifies the cultural and structural barriers to the achievement of equitable employment outcomes for academic and general staff women and the implications of these barriers for staffing policies and management practices in Australian universities.
Abstract
The study investigates the discussion about women in universities, and looks at the barriers to their progress generated by organisational dynamics. The report investigates EEO policies and procedures to determine which are the most effective in creating an equal balance of gender. Some of the other issues addressed are cultural/systemic impediments, women participating on university committees, the changing academic labour market, and affirmative action programs.
A range of source material was used to complete the research project; 22 universities made available equity review and survey documents, all 36 publicly-funded universities responded in writing to a questionnaire requesting information and material relating to their equal employment opportunity or affirmative action programs and methods used to evaluate their effectiveness, and universities' 1995 annual reports to the Affirmative Action Agency were examined for further relevant quantitative and qualitative data. In the recommendations the following issues are discussed; the minimisation of cultural impediments, responses to the changing academic labour market, the review of women's committee involvement and workloads.
This research was funded under the Evaluations and Investigations Programme (EIP).
Author(s)
Clare Burton
Publication Details
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Reports |
| Published : |
12/1997 |
Topics Covered
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| Detailed :
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| Equity and access |
| Teachers and academic staff |
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Availability
Executive summary: view HTML
Report: download PDF 
(686 KB, 235 pages)