All UWS staff are invited to attend the Seminar

Where are the Women Professors?

Hosted by the Vice Chancellor Professor Janice Reid AM, with special guest speaker, Professor Marian Baird this Seminar will discuss issues of gender equity in higher education with a focus on academic women and increasing the number of women professors.

Marian Baird is Professor of Employment Relations in the University of Sydney Business School and Research Coordinator for the Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies. She is Director of the Women and Work Research Group, co-editor of the Journal of Industrial Relations and on the editorial board of the Australian Bulletin of Labour and the international journal, Community, Work and Family. Marian is also a Fellow of the University of Sydney Senate and is on the Women’s College Council.

Date:     Monday 19 November 2012
Time:    12:00 - 2:00pm
Venue:  The Board Room Building AD
              Werrington North, Penrith Campus

Program

12:00- 12:20  A light lunch will be provided on arrival

12:20 - 12:22 Welcome

12:22 - 12:30 Opening Address Professor Janice Reid

12:30 - 13:00 "Where Are the Women Professors "
                        Professor Marian Baird

13.00-13.20 Q&A

13.20-13.40  Work in break out groups:

• What messages need to go to people responsible for promotions?  Facilitator: Professor Kerri-Lee Krause
  
• What kind of professional development workshops do we need? Facilitator: Professor Louise Young
  
• What organisational changes are needed at UWS to advance gender equity? Facilitator: Professor Deborah Sweeney

13.40-13.50 Reports back from the break-up groups

13.50-14.00 Commentary by Professor Marian Baird

 RSVP
5 November  via www.uws.edu.au/women_professors