Women's Access to Continuing Employment in Higher Education

Abstract

This paper examines changes in women's participation in Australian higher education, as students but primarily as staff, from the 1950s until the present, against a background of the policies and structures that were present in the higher education system over that period. The paper raises some issues about factors influencing the employment and progression of female employees of the universities and suggests some action which could be taken at the personal and system levels to assist the advancement of female staff in university academia, management and administration.