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Women at Work
Research, Policy and Practice
Peter A Murray, Robin Kramar & Peter McGraw
ISBN: 9780734611376 / 978-0-7346-1137-6
Price: A$64.95 NZ$77.95 US$54.95
Binding: Softcover
Trim: 190 x 245 mm 330 pp
Copyright: 2011
This book presents a new and contemporary look at the critical and important issues associated with women at work. It examines these issues at the level of government, of business, and of the individual, and this enables and evaluation of the progress of women at work within the institutional and legislative framework in Australia.
Women at Work deals with a number of emerging trends such as superannuation, pay inequality, gender regimes, negotiation, and contemporary issues in leadership. It also examines more recently changes in legislation such as the introduction of the Fair Work Act 2009, the impact on women at work based on these changes and the proposed changes to the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Act.
Although the scope of this work relates to generic issues for women at work in Australia, the content has far reaching policy and practice implications for women in most countries, particularly women at work in the Asia Pacific region.
Women at Work represents the most up-to-date research in the area, and covers contemporary issues with an emphasis on practical application.
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Chapter 1 - Theoretical introduction and historical overview
Chapter 2 - Trends in women's participation in the Australian workforce
Chapter 3 - Pay equity
Chapter 4 - Work, life and women in Australia
Chapter 5 - Diversity management
Chapter 6 - Legislated frameworks and future challenges
Chapter 7- The future isn't what it used to be
Chapter 8 - Getting to the heart of gender equity in executive roles
Chapter 9 - Executive women at work: Tales from the field
Chapter 10 - Women’s leadership and mentoring
Chapter 11 - A portrayal of women as leaders in the media
Chapter 12 - Sugar’n’spice and all things nice: Gender and strategy
Editors:
Peter A Murray is an Associate Professor in Business at the University of Southern Queensland in Australia. Peter lectures in the area of strategic HRM, with a particular interest in gender differences at work. His most recent work has been published in high quality journals including Human Resource Management Journal, Management Learning, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, and Supply Chain Management. Peter is Australian editor for the journal Management Decision, and is a regular reviewer for the Journal of Knowledge Management, and the European Journal of Marketing.
Robin Kramar is Professor in Human Resource Management at Macquarie Graduate School of Management in Sydney, Australia. Robin has a special interest in understanding and improving the position of women in the labour market. For more than 30 years she has been researching women in the labour market, equal employment opportunity, and developments in diversity management. Professor Kramar is part of the Cranet network, which researches human resource practices in more than 40 countries. Robin is Associate Dean Higher Degree Research at MGSM, and teaches a number of courses including HRM. She is also Associate Editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources and a member of a number of editorial boards.
Peter McGraw is the Director of the Labour-Management Studies Foundation in the Faculty of Business and Economics at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. His research interests include HRM in multi-national firms, gender pay equity, and the management of change. Peter is the author of over 30 peer reviewed academic journal articles, two books, and numerous book chapters, research reports and conference papers. Previously, Peter was a faculty member at Macquarie Graduate School of Management. He is a highly regarded university teacher and corporate educator specialising in leadership and change management programs.
Contributors:
Marian Baird, University of Sydney, Australia
Barbara Pocock, University of South Australia
Robin Kramar, Macquarie Graduate School of Management
Peter Murray, University of Sunshine Coast, QLD Australia
Angela Knox & Patricia Todd, University of Sydney, Australia
Geraldine Lamont, Mike Rafferty & Susan Ryan, Workplace Research Centre
Juliet Burke, Juliet Andrews Aequus Partners
Mara Olekains & Carol Kulak, University of Melbourne
Jane Sullivan, University of New England, Australia
Peter McGraw, Macquarie University, Sydney Australia
Wendy McCarthy, McCarthy Mentoring