scholarly journals Gender equality mainstreaming and the Australian academy: paradoxical effects?

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilee Gilbert ◽  
Michelle O’Shea ◽  
Sarah Duffy
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Equity ◽  
Senior Executive ◽  
Value System ◽  
Masculine Ideology ◽  
Paradoxical Effects ◽  
Australian Academy ◽  
Identity Class ◽  
Australian Universities

AbstractAustralian Universities consistently rank highly on lists that celebrate the most gender equal higher education institutions in the world. Despite participation in institutional frameworks for gender equity accreditation, what often lies beneath the outward display of gender equality is a lived experience of inequality. Whilst there is relative gender equality amongst academics employed at universities overall, men continue to dominate appointments at the professorial or senior executive levels. At the same time, gender asymmetries make women’s access to the opportunities and resources that are highly valued by the sector difficult. Women who experience intersections with care, mothering, race, sexual identity, class, and ability face additional obstacles. In this paper, three women in Australian academia attempt to disrupt the dominant masculine ideology and value system by sharing our lived experience of gender (in)equality in the academy.

A critical exploration of university policy supporting the employment and career development of people with disability in the Australian academy

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-126
Author(s):  
Damian Mellifont
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
University Policy ◽  
Diversity And Inclusion ◽  
Critical Exploration ◽  
Australian Academy ◽  
Australian Universities

Policymakers are challenged to advance diversity and inclusion throughout the Australian academy. Informing this issue, this study aims to (a) identify proportions of staff in Australian universities that are publicly reported as being represented by persons with disability; (b) identify categories of actions supporting the employment and career development of people with lived experience as reported within Australian university plans and (c) critically examine contemporary policy efforts of Australian universities by exploring the scholarly evidence base for measures with potential to support disability recruitment and advancement in the academy. The study is informed by thematic analysis as applied to 17 action plans retrieved from an internet search and 7 scholarly articles obtained from Scopus, ProQuest Central and ProQuest Social Science databases. This research offers policymakers a preliminary guide containing good practice features that they should consider when designing and developing policy endeavouring to increase the representation and advancement of persons with disability in staff at Australian universities.

scholarly journals Gender Equity, Women Education and National Development in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Ezinna ◽  
Christopher Ugwuibe ◽  
Chikaodili Ugwoke
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Equity ◽  
National Development ◽  
Central Position ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Equity In Education ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
The Impact

<p>Gender equity in education generates a push force that accelerates progress across sectors and goals; thus sustainable development. Gender equality constitutes central position in both national and international programmes as an accelerator for achieving development. Women’s place in national development appears subordinated. Thus, this study examined gender equity in education in Nigeria and the impact on national development. Specifically, the study sought to determine the degree of women access to education, ascertain the impact of women education on socio-economic development and determine the factors that constitute barriers to women education in Nigeria. The study discovered that educated women serve as stabilizing factor in national development and recommended ‘soft competition technique’ as the approach that will grant women the needed equity in national development in Nigeria. </p>

scholarly journals Patriarcavirus, feminist dystopias and COVID-19: reflections on the phenomenon of gender pandemics

Feminismo/s ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 359
Author(s):  
Almudena Machado-Jiménez
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Female Empowerment ◽  
First Year ◽  
Value System ◽  
Female Population ◽  
Control Female ◽  
Female Bodies ◽  
Patriarchal Power

This essay examines contemporary feminist dystopias to study the phenomenon of gender pandemics. Gender pandemic narrative allegorises possible aftermaths of patriarcavirus, unleashing many natural disasters that force global biopolitics to hinder gender equality. The main objective of this essay is to explain how gender pandemics are appropriated in patriarchal utopian discourses as a pretext to control female empowerment, diagnosing women as diseased organisms that risk the state’s well-being. Moreover, the novels explore the interdependence between biology and sociality, portraying the acute vulnerability of female bodies during and after the pandemic conflicts, inasmuch as patriarchal power arranges a hierarchical value system of living that reinforces gender discrimination. Particularly, the COVID-19 emergency is analysed as a gender pandemic: the exacerbated machismo and the growing distress in the female population prove that women are afflicted with a suffocating patriarcavirus, which has critically gagged them in the first year of the pandemic.

Reflections from the South Pacific – Navigating Intersectionality and Customary Contexts to Progress Gender Equality and Gender Equity

2019 ◽  
pp. 151-162
Author(s):  
Lila Singh-Peterson ◽  
Michelle Carnegie ◽  
R. Michael (‘Mike’) Bourke ◽  
Veronica Bue ◽  
Joanne Lee Kunatuba ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Equity ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
The South ◽  
And Gender

scholarly journals Athelstan Laurence Johnson Beckwith OA FAA. 20 February 1930 — 15 May 2010

2012 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 3-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian D. Rae
Keyword(s):  
Free Radicals ◽  
Organic Chemical ◽  
Resonance Spectroscopy ◽  
Chemical Research ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Spin Resonance ◽  
National University ◽  
The University ◽  
Australian Academy ◽  
Australian Universities

Athelstan (‘Athel’) Laurence Johnson Beckwith was an organic chemist whose research was concerned with free radicals, the reactive intermediates that have important roles in many organic chemical reactions. After studies and junior appointments at Australian universities, he completed his doctorate at Oxford University at a time when scepticism about the very existence of free radicals was being dispelled by a small group of experimentalists. Returning to Australia, where he occupied chairs at the University of Adelaide and the Australian National University, Beckwith used studies of organic structure and mechanisms, revealed by kinetic methods and electron spin resonance spectroscopy, to become a world leader in this field of chemistry. He was honoured by election to Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Science (1973) and the Royal Society of London (1989), by several awards from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, and by membership of the Order of Australia (2004). His extensive travels, often accompanied by his wife, Kaye, and their children, to work in overseas chemical research laboratories and to give presentations at international meetings, helped him to secure his place in networks at the highest levels of his profession. Several of those who studied with him now hold important positions in Australian chemistry.

Hierarchical population models with poisson recruitment

1967 ◽  
Vol 4 (01) ◽  
pp. 209-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. Pollard
Keyword(s):  
Age Structure ◽  
Population Models ◽  
Australian Academy ◽  
Australian Universities

The analysis of an organization having various grades of employee has been undertaken in many different contexts. In 1961, for example, Young and Almond considered an institution (of undisclosed type) having six grades of staff. Gani, in 1963, considered ‘Australian Universities’ as an organization and students were graded according to their stage of study. The author used techniques similar to those of this paper in 1964 to analyze deterministically the age structure of the Australian Academy of Science. Indeed, the analyses have usually been deterministic.

Global Megatrends and the Macroeconomics of Gender

2019 ◽  
pp. 417-435
Author(s):  
Kalpana Kochhar ◽  
Sonali Jain-Chandra ◽  
Monique Newiak
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Equity ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Economic Diversification ◽  
Vulnerability To Climate Change ◽  
Demographic Shifts ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact

This chapter examines global megatrends such as demographic shifts, technological progress, globalization, and climate change and emphasizes the important role of gender equality in mitigating their adverse consequences. The chapter first discusses demographic change, globalization, technological progress, and climate change before explaining how the main challenges posed by these megatrends could be offset by increasing gender equality, providing more equal access to economic opportunities for women, and boosting female economic participation. In particular, it considers ways of mitigating the impact of population ageing, harnessing urbanization for growth and gender equity, catalysing change to reduce income inequality, accelerating economic diversification, and mitigating vulnerability to climate change. The chapter concludes with an evaluation of policy options for mitigating the risks posed by megatrends through gender equality, such as unleashing fiscal policy, easing the burden of non-market work, and removing legal discrimination against women.

scholarly journals Gender Roles, Gender (In)equality and Fertility: An Empirical Test of Five Gender Equity Indices

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melinda Mills
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Equity ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Empirical Test ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Fertility Intentions ◽  
European Social Survey ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The European Union

The division of gender roles in the household and societal level gender (in)equality have been situated as one of the most powerful factors underlying fertility behaviour. Despite continued theoretical attention to this issue by demographers, empirical research integrating gender roles and equity in relation to fertility remains surprisingly sparse. This paper first provides a brief review of previous research that has examined gender roles and fertility followed by a comparison of six prominent gender equality indices: Gender-related Development Index (GDI), Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM), Gender Gap Index (GGI), Gender Equality Index (GEI), the European Union Gender Equality Index (EU-GEI) and the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI). The paper then tests how five of these indices impact fertility intentions and behaviour using a series of multilevel (random-coefficient) logistic regression models, applying the European Social Survey (2004/5). The GDI, with its emphasis on human development, adjusted for gender, has the strongest and significant effect on fertility intentions. The EU-GEI, which focuses on the universal caregiver model, uncovers that more equity significantly lowers fertility intentions, but only for women. The remaining indicators show no significant impact. The paper concludes with a reflection and suggestions for future research.

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