Women in Male-Dominated Industries (2012) Promoting Women in Leadership In 2010, the Australian Human Rights Commission examined the key reforms required to achieve gender equality in Australia in a report entitled Gender Equality Blueprint 2010. The report sets out recommendations in five priority areas which significantly affect both the public and private lives of women and men. One of the priority areas identified is promoting women in leadership. The report actively promotes the importance of women’s representation in decision-making roles in the community, government and business sectors. In addition to the evident need for substantive gender equality, research has confirmed there are a number of advantages in promoting women in leadership: A project to focus on male-dominated industries In virtually all sectors of Australia’s paid workforce, women continue to be underrepresented in senior leadership positions.
Some background Aims of the project The project, which will be conducted over six months, commenced in August 2012. The Lucky country. “The Lucky Country” sounds like a nice cuddly description of Australia, but it isn’t. In fact it’s a rather cynical dig. It comes from the title of a Professor Donald Horne book in 1964.
The point he was trying to make was that Australia was “Lucky” rather than “clever”. Lucky to develop without being particularly clever and lucky to have adopted the technological, economic, social and political innovations of other more “clever” nations. The usage of the expression has been redefined a hundred times since 1964. Given different meanings. To a Pom the “Lucky Country” means something completely different. If someone goes past you in a Porsche in the US you say “That’s Bill Gates, built Microsoft, clever bloke”.
Australians respect luck. Luck is the Australian culture. It's just not fashionable to be smart. But this idolisation of the “chancer” has left a population believing that their own lives will also be, one day, miraculously, transformed. But sorry, it won’t. My Gartner. HIGHER EDUCATION | Latest Higher Education News. Springerlink. Campus Review. Twitter refines targeted advertising tweets. Zinio. iPad 2: The Missing Manual, Third Edition - Missing CD-ROM. Untitled. Laboratories are always dealing with ongoing issues such as poor testing accuracy, poor turnaround times and frequently occurring errors and wastes. In addition, the developments in technology and automation have made requirements for advanced operational skills more critical. The question facing all laboratory managers is: How to retain and upskill my existing staff and keep them motivated to work proactively towards cost reduction while enhancing rather than compromising quality?
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