This is where we post extra or extended content from each issue of Agenda.
NTEU is pleased to announce that the Union’s first internal Gender Equity Audit is currently underway. The Audit is the first step in a broad review by the Women’s Action Committee (WAC) ...
In the 2011 issue of Agenda, we reported on the Government’s Review of Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace (EOWW) Act, and the Equal Opportunity for Women Agency (EOWA). The purpose of ...
A summary of the new rules around equal opportunity, and an outlined of the new improvements mean.
This article is provided as extra content for volume 19 of Agenda (formerly Frontline), NTEU's women's journal.
A version of this paper was presented at the TEM Conference, Melbourne, 3 – 6 October 2010.
By Ian R Dobson, Editor, Australian Universities' Review
This paper examines the number and proportion of women occupying senior administrative positions in Australian universities, and examines the changes that have occurred over the past fifteen years. Higher education administration has had a female majority for many years, and the female proportion of these positions increased from nearly 57 per cent to over 63 per cent between 1994 and 2009. Women now occupy 45.0 per cent of senior posts, compared with 25.2 per cent in 1994. Some universities have more senior women than others, with some having relatively few women at the top. If current growth trends continue, there might be equal numbers of women and men in the upper echelons of university administration by
This is the long version of an article appearing in the upcoming issue of Agenda, NTEU's women's journal.
By Justine O’Sullivan, Social Work Clinical Coordinator at UWS, and NTEU NSW Women's ...