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GIWL is a multi-disciplinary research institute that brings together world-leading expertise across academic disciplines and fields in the areas of workplace gender equality and women's leadership. Our research is driven by three key priorities:
1.Identifying the things that facilitate systemic change in workplace gender equality and women’s representation in leadership
2.Understanding the intersectional nature of workplace gender discrimination
3.Developing and testing evidence based solutions to increase women’s representation in leadership roles
A complete list of GIWL ANU publications can be found in the list below, or you can explore some of our recent projects by theme:
GIWL ANU has also established a network of Research Affiliates. Our affiliates make up a global network of accomplished research partners working towards the common goal of improving workplace gender equality and women’s leadership. You can find out more about the network and the cutting edge research being undertaken in women’s leadership and workplace gender equality here.
If you are interested in partnering with GIWL at ANU on research or other ways to accelerate change, we would love to hear from you. Please contact us.
Publications
2021 Women for Media Report: ‘Take the Next Steps’
Author/editor: Dr Blair Williams and Dr Jenna Price
Year published: 2021
Key findings: What women write about is gendered. Topics most likely to be reported on by women include health (53%) and entertainment (44%). What men write about is also gendered, and the topics that are “men’s topics” include politics (65%) and sports (87%). Men are entitled to have an opinion...
Essays on Equality 2021: Covid-19: the road to a gender equal recovery
Author/editor: Global Institute for Women's Leadership at King's College London
Year published: 2021
Produced by the Global Institute for Women's Leadership at King's College London, the latest edition of Essays on Equality focuses on the gendered impacts of Covid-19 and, crucially, how we can begin to undo the damage caused by the pandemic in order to acheive a feminist recovery. Download the...
Gender inequalities during COVID-19
Author/editor: Dr Alexandra N. Fisher and Professor Michelle K. Ryan
Year published: 2021
The onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic put a halt to progress toward gender equality and, instead, exacerbated existing gender inequalities across domains—from gendered divisions of labour to economic stability. In this paper, the authors document some of the most glaring gender inequalities...
Gender pay gap reporting in Australia -- Time for an upgrade
Author/editor: Glennie, M, von Reibnitz, A, William, J, Curtis, S, Bordia, S
Year published: 2021
Australia has fallen from 14th to 70th on women’s economic participation in the World Economic Forum’s global gender gap index. The gender pay gap amongst full-time employees remains at 14.2%. The purpose of Gender pay gap reporting in Australia --Time for an upgrade is to identify strengths and...
In traditionally male-dominated fields, women are less willing to make sacrifices for their career because discrimination and lower fit with people up the ladder make sacrifices less worthwhile
Author/editor: Meeussen, L., Begeny, C., Peters, K. and Ryan, M.
Year published: 2021
Women's lower career advancement relative to men is sometimes explained by internal factors such as women's lower willingness to make sacrifices for their career, and sometimes by external barriers such as discrimination. In the current research, positing a dynamic interplay between internal and...
Parliament as a gendered workplace: Towards a new code of conduct
Author/editor: Global Institute for Women's Leadership and the Australian Political Studies Association
Year published: 2021
Revelations of sexual harassment, misogyny, bullying and even criminal behaviour between and among parliamentarians and political staff have rocked Australia and sparked mass protests across the nation. While Australian parliaments were early adopters of some practices to ensure parliament was a...
Submission to the Review of the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012
Author/editor: Miriam Glennie, Anna von Reibnitz, Jananie William, Sally Curtis, Sarbari Bordia, Michelle Ryan
Year published: 2021
This submission has been prepared by the ANU Global Institute for Women's Leadership (GIWL) and their research affiliates at the ANU College of Business and Economics (CBE) in response to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency Review consultation. The submission provides a summary of recent research...
Where are the Great Women? A feminist analysis of Australian political biographies
Author/editor: Blair Williams
Year published: 2021
BLAIR WILLIAMS As women have become more visible in the Australian political sphere, the volume of writing about their lives, careers and experiences has also increased. This has brought to light certain challenges and shortcomings, as well as enduring discursive biases in the existing literature...
Women’s representation and voice in media coverage of the coronavirus crisis
Author/editor: Jones, Laura
Year published: 2020
This research note summarises the results of a big-data analysis of 146,867 articles related to coronavirus published between 1 March and 31 July 2020 and drawn from 15 sources across the UK, Australia and the US. Using natural language processing techniques, we searched each article for well-known...
What helps or hinders women's equality?
Author/editor: GIWL/The Policy Institute
Year published: 2019
To support the launch of King’s College London’s World Questions event series with Hillary Rodham Clinton and Julia Gillard , the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership , Policy Institute and Ipsos MORI surveyed 20,000 people across 28 countries to explore public perceptions of what helps or...
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