- Title
- Whatever happened to gender equality in Australian and New Zealand universities?
- Creator
- Bönisch-Brednich, Brigitte; White, Kate
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/180526
- Identifier
- vital:15759
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69687-0_5
- Identifier
- ISBN:2524-6445 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- This chapter examines why progress towards getting more women into senior management has been slow in Australian and New Zealand public universities. It argues that despite implementation of gender-equality policies, the structural sources of gender equality have not been tackled. Most recently this has been reflected in merging gender equality with other initiatives, transforming it from a separate and stand-alone goal. The data is derived from senior managers who were responsible for gender equality during COVID-19 and an analysis of the strategic plans of all public universities. While such senior managers expressed a commitment to change, the university strategic plans revealed either an absence of gender-equality initiatives or their low priority. “Gender” has mostly been subsumed into crowded equity/diversity/inclusion portfolios, making gender inequality invisible. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Relation
- Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education p. 93-115
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
- Subject
- Australia; Displacement; Gender equality; Invisibility; New Zealand; Strategic plans; Universities
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