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This is where we post extra or extended content from each issue of Agenda.

  1. NTEU's Gender Equity Audit

    Posted 30 August 2012 by Terri Macdonald (NTEU National Office)

    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) ...

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    NTEU’s Gender Equity Audit

    Published: 03 Sep, 2012
    Tags: gender equity,

  2. Getting into the Act - A Renewed Focus on Gender Equity in the Workplace

    Posted 29 August 2012 by Terri Macdonald (NTEU National Office)

    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 ...

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    Getting into the Act – A Renewed Focus on Gender Equity in the Workplace

    Published: 03 Sep, 2012
    Tags: women, equal opportunities, EOWA, EOWWA

    A summary of the new rules around equal opportunity, and an outlined of the new improvements mean.

  3. Room at the Top: Women’s Progress or Glass Ceiling?

    Posted 16 September 2011 by Paul Clifton (NTEU National Office)

    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.

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    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

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  4. Pressure on Professional courses being offered within the Tertiary Education sector

    Posted 14 September 2011 by Jeannie Rea (NTEU National Office)

    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 ...

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