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Gender quotas are not enough: the need for multiple strategies to address gender equity in Australian universities
Gender and Education, Vol.36(6), pp.581-598
2024
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.
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- Title
- Gender quotas are not enough: the need for multiple strategies to address gender equity in Australian universities
- Authors
- Gail Crimmins (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative IndustriesElvessa Marshall - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation)Gemma J.M. Read - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Centre for Human Factors and Systems Science
- Publication details
- Gender and Education, Vol.36(6), pp.581-598
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2024
- DOI
- 10.1080/09540253.2024.2370270
- ISSN
- 1360-0516; 0954-0253
- Copyright note
- © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
- Organisation Unit
- Centre for Human Factors and Systems Science; School of Business and Creative Industries; Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation); School of Health - Psychology
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991046198502621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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