No primrose path : women as staff at the University of Sydney

Abstract

While the central concerns prompting the production of this report are about women's labour market participation and their present success in the University selection and appointment system, they are best understood set against knowledge of women's University employment in earlier times. For this reason the first part of the report looks to past patterns of.women's employment and to the experiences of some women on staff. This sets the scene for an analysis of how women fare in the processes leading to appointment in the 80s which forms the second part of the work. The connection between past and present forms and relationships is intimate and critical Show more