Women Managers in Advertising: An Exploratory Study

The growing interest in the status of women in the Australian workforce has prompted a related interest in the position of women in certain industries, occupations and professions. Several studies have begun to emerge which have explored women's employment position and status in law (Mathews, 1982; Bretos, 1984); chartered accountancy (Equal Opportunity Board, Victoria, 1983); retailing (Turner & Glare, 1982); and social work (Brown & Turner, 1985). The position of women managers in business has also been examined by the Victorian Office of Women's Affairs (1981) and Still (1985), while Sampson (1985) is currently investigating the status of women in the primary, secondary and technical areas of the teaching profession.

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Glamour and Aspiration: Women's Employment and the Establishment of Midlands ATV, 1956–68

Journal of British Cinema and Television ◽

10.3366/jbctv.2013.0162 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 635-649 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Gillian Murray

Keyword(s):

Significant Influence ◽

Television News ◽

Formative Period ◽

Women's Employment ◽

Women’S Employment ◽

Television Production ◽

News Broadcasts ◽

Current Affairs ◽

Female Employees ◽

Status Of Women

This article uses an extant collection of television news inserts and other television ephemera to examine women's employment at Midlands ATV. Focusing on the years between the first Midlands News broadcasts in 1956 until major contract changes across the ITV network in 1968, it examines the jobs women did during this formative period and their chances for promotion. In particular it suggests that contemporary ideas of glamour and their influence in screen culture maintained a significant influence in shaping women's employment. This connection between glamorous television aesthetics and female employees as the embodiment of glamour, especially on screen, did leave women vulnerable to redundancy as ‘frivolity’ in television was increasingly criticised in the mid-1960s. However, this article argues that the precarious status of women in the industry should not undermine historical appreciation of the value of their work in the establishing of television in Britain. Setting this study of Midlands ATV within the growing number of studies into women's employment in television, there are certain points of comparison with women's experience at the BBC and in networked ITV current affairs programmes. However, while the historical contours of television production are broadly comparable, there are clear distinctions, such as the employment of a female newscaster, Pat Cox, between 1956 and 1965. Such distinctions also suggest that regional news teams were experimenting with the development of a vernacular television news style that requires further study.

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Equal opportunity? The role of legislation and public policies in women’s employment in China

Women in Management Review ◽

10.1108/eum0000000006115 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 16 (7) ◽

pp. 334-348 ◽

Cited By ~ 32

Author(s):

Fang Lee Cooke

Keyword(s):

Equal Opportunity ◽

Public Policies ◽

Women's Employment ◽

Women’S Employment

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In the Way of Women: Men's Resistance to Sex Equality in Organizations. Cynthia CockburnThe Promise and the Price: The Struggle for Equal Opportunity in Women's Employment. Clare Burton

Signs ◽

10.1086/494896 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 504-506

Author(s):

Joan Acker

Keyword(s):

Equal Opportunity ◽

Women's Employment ◽

Women’S Employment ◽

Sex Equality ◽

The Way

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A Review of the Literature on the Status of Women and Minorities in the Professoriate in Higher Education

Journal of School Leadership ◽

10.1177/105268469300300203 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 121-135 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Marylyn W. Granger

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Black Women ◽

Affirmative Action ◽

Educational Administration ◽

Equal Opportunity ◽

Status Report ◽

Women In Higher Education ◽

Male And Female ◽

The Status ◽

Status Of Women

Over the past twenty years, the status of women in higher education has improved, but only marginally so. As the political and social climate of the country has become more conservative, the concepts of affirmative action and equal opportunity for women and minorities have been challenged more than ever. In addition, although women are flocking to graduate schools in record numbers, only a small percentage of them are encouraged to seek positions in higher education as administrators or professors. Statistically, the situation is worse, especially for black women. This status report focuses on the following: (1) the role of affirmative action in the hiring and retention of women in higher education; (2) the environment that exists in colleges and universities in regard to women and minorities; (3) policies that adversely affect black women in academia; (4) existing rank and salary inequities of minority male and female professors; (5) a specific look at male and female professors of educational administration; and (6) implications and recommendations.

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