Gender quotas are not enough: the need for multiple strategies to address gender equity in Australian universities.
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| Title: | Gender quotas are not enough: the need for multiple strategies to address gender equity in Australian universities. |
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| Authors: | Crimmins, Gail1 gcrimmin@usc.edu.au, Marshall, Elvessa2, Read, Gemma J.M.3,4 |
| Source: | Gender & Education. Aug2024, Vol. 36 Issue 6, p581-598. 18p. |
| Subject Terms: | *Methodology, *Discourse analysis, Political quotas, Neoliberalism |
| Geographic Terms: | Australia |
| Abstract: | The paper examines a 'circulatory' system of gender inequity in Australian universities where gender bias prevents women from accessing senior decision-making roles and stultifies their capacity to act as gender change agents. It has been mooted that equity quotas for senior roles can derail this circuit of male privilege in academia. Yet a plastic reading of the shape of gender equity policy and practice in Australian universities over the last 40 years reveals an increasing acceptance of individualism, which positions women's liberation as being achievable through self-responsibilisation. If these discourses remain unchallenged, gender quotas for senior roles alone will likely only benefit those entrepreneurial women admitted to senior positions, rendering the causes of gender inequity hidden and exonerated. Using a novel methodology that combines a 'plastic' with a complex systems lens of policy manoeuvres, we suggest gender quotas, accompanied by strategy designed to develop leaders' gender competency and change agency, are required to support more sustainably equitable work structure within the academy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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