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Gender Institute Newsletter: 1 July 2020

GI NEWS


Grant Round 1 2020 

GENDER INSTITUTE FUNDING 
 
This call for applications for our grants aims as usual to support gender research and gender equity related activities at ANU. In this time of crisis, such work is needed more than ever.

Projects selected in this round will reflect and grow outstanding gender, sexuality and intersectional research at ANU and/ or support gender equity related projects, using online and remote methods of working. Projects that aim to influence gender-related public policy and/or include or support early career academics will be especially welcome, as will projects that initiate or consolidate national and international collaborations.

In line with expectations about the likely limits of events on campus, we will not be funding any travel or catering for events planned in 2020. Rather we will be seeking to develop the online presence of the ANU Gender Institute network as well as its local, national and international reach. Up to $5,000 can be requested by current members of the Gender Institute.
 
For full details please visit our website. This call closes on MONDAY 6 JULY 2020.  


The application cover sheet and full project description template are available for download from the grant information webpage. Applications must be submitted via the online portal

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ANU EVENTS


In conversation with Julia Gillard

ANU/CANBERRA TIMES VIRTUAL MEET THE AUTHOR

Event date: 6-7pm, 15 July 2020

In this virtual Meet the Author live event, Julia Gillard and Quentin Bryce discuss Julia's new book, co-authored with Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Women and Leadership

Almost every year new findings are published about the way people see women leaders compared with their male counterparts. The authors have taken that academic work and tested it in the real world. The same set of interview questions were put to each leader in frank face-to-face interviews. Their responses were then used to examine each woman's journey in leadership and whether their lived experiences were in line with or different from what the research would predict.

Women and Leadership presents a lively and readable analysis of the influence of gender on women's access to positions of leadership, the perceptions of them as leaders, the trajectory of their leadership and the circumstances in which it comes to an end. By presenting the lessons that can be learned from women leaders, such as Jacinda Ardern, Hillary Clinton, Joyce Banda and Christine Lagarde, Julia and Ngozi provide a road map of essential knowledge to inspire us all, and an action agenda for change that allows women to take control and combat gender bias.

The Honourable Julia Gillard AC was sworn in as the 27th Prime Minister of Australia on 24 June 2010, the first woman to ever serve as Australia's Prime Minister. As Prime Minister and in her previous role as Deputy Prime Minister, Ms Gillard delivered nation-changing policies including reforming Australian education at every level from early childhood to university education, creating an emissions trading scheme to combat climate change, improving health care, commencing the nation's first ever national scheme to care for people with disabilities, addressing the gender pay gap for social and community sector workers and delivering an apology to all those who had suffered through the practice of forced adoptions.

The Honourable Dame Quentin Bryce AD CVO has enjoyed a rich and distinguished career as an academic, lawyer, community and human rights advocate, senior public officer, university college principal, and vice-regal representative in Queensland and Australia. On 5 September 2008 Quentin Bryce was sworn in as Australia's twenty-fifth Governor-General, the first woman to take up the office. When her term concluded in March 2014, Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced her appointment as a Dame in the Order of Australia. 

The meet the author event will be introduced and chaired by Professor Brian Schmidt AC FAA FRS, Vice-Chancellor and President of The Australian National University.
 
Please register for this virtual event here

Virtually in the Know with CBE - Women in Super

WEBINAR

Event date: 6.30pm, 16 July 2020

Join esteemed ANU alumna and co-founder of Verve Super Christina Hobbs, and Dr Anna Von Reibnitz for a vibrant discussion on Women in Super and the importance of ethical Superannuation funds
 
Christina Hobbs is a Co-Founder and the CEO of Verve Super, Australia's first ethical superannuation fund tailored for women. She is a former Board Director of the Global Women's Project and a published author on gender equality.
 
Dr Anna von Reibnitz is a Senior Lecturer in Finance and the Finance Masters Convenor within the Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies and Statistics. 

Please register for this virtual event here

ANU NEWS


'This changes everything?'! Australia and the post-pandemic world

CALL FOR PAPERS
 
COVID-19 has upended daily life with nations struggling to stop the spread of this deadly virus. The virus has changed so much – how we work, play, relate to one another, celebrate milestones, and mourn our dead. It has changed the basic rhythms and routines of life in 2020 and beyond. The virus has reconfigured so many things but has it changed everything? Which changes will endure? Which practises will revert to their pre-COVID-19 status quo? What does a post-COVID-19 future look like?
 
Inviting contributors to consider the post-pandemic world from a broad range of perspectives and disciplines. As the title of the symposium suggests, Australia is placed at the centre of our discussions but welcoming analysis that positions a post-COVID-19 Australia within international and global contexts. Comparative studies are also welcomed.

31 July 2020: Due date for submission of your 250-500 word abstracts via Eventbrite 
22 October 2020: Interdisciplinary Virtual Symposium

Enquiries: admin.ausi@anu.edu.au +61 02 6125 7459

PUBLICATIONS BY GI MEMBERS

IN THE MEDIA


University reforms burden women with higher debt


Higher education: Proposed changes to higher education funding are 'designed' to prepare students for the future workforce.

However,  assumptions behind the changes envisage a future labour market in which male-dominated professions flourish and female-dominated occupations, with the exception of nursing and teaching, are deemed less worthy - and come with an added financial hit right from the outset, writes Kate Ogg


» Read here

We don’t know if breastfeeding is rising or falling in Australia. That’s bad for everyone


As the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us all too well, good health policy depends on prior planning, decisive action, and a willingness to spend money. 

But there’s another area where Australia’s willingness to plan and spend has fallen far short: monitoring breastfeeding rates, writes Julie Smith


» Read here

PUBLICATIONS BY GI MEMBERS
ARTICLES


The Mechanism Underlying Change in the Sex Gap in Life Expectancy at Birth: An Extended Decomposition


The relationship between differential mortality rates and differences in life expectancy is well understood, but how changing differential rates translate into changing differences in life expectancy has not been fully explained. To elucidate the mechanism involved, this study, by Vladimir Canudas-Romo, Heather Booth et al., extends existing decomposition methods. 

» Access it here

Responding to hate incidents on university campuses: benefits and barriers to establishing a restorative justice programme


This study, by Liyana Kayali et al., examines staff and student perspectives of the use of restorative justice approaches to respond to student-on-student hate crime, hate incidents, and hate speech on university campuses.

It draws on qualitative data collated over a one-year period, during the design and establishment of a restorative programme entitled ‘Restore Respect.’ 


» Access it here

RESEARCH PROJECTS | SURVEYS


Coronavirus and the Contradictions of Working at Home


Margaret Thornton, Fiona Jenkins, Anne Macduff and Kate Ogg (all of the ANU) are conducting research on the gendered impact of working at home as a result of the lockdown.  They are interested in the experiences of men and women in regard to the conduct of household and caring responsibilities, as well as supervising schooling, in conjunction with paid work.

» Respond to the survey

Work and Care in the Time of COVID-19


This research project is about how work – paid and unpaid – is changing due to the social and economic disruptions caused by COVID-19/Coronavirus. Specifically, how COVID-19 is affecting how men and women are managing paid work, housework and caring responsibilities for children, older people and other family members. The aim is to understand the issues and challenges faced during this period to inform research and policy. 

» Complete the online survey questionnaire

RESOURCES


#BlackLivesMatter: Resources for the Uprising


In solidarity with the ongoing #BlackLivesMatter protests across the US and worldwide, Signs and the University of Chicago Press are pleased to offer access to seventeen articles addressing antiracist feminist activism; police, prisons, and racist violence; gender in contemporary right-wing politics; and racism and health.

They will be freely available until 3 August

» Access the resources 

ANU COVID-19 engagement register


Many ANU staff have been contributing to the response to COVID-19 through their research, provision of advice, policy work, and commentary. A number of projects and initiatives have captured elements of this work but these have not consolidated the full story - or allow us to tell the full story to government and the broader Australian community.

A new coordination project, led by the Vice-President (Engagement and Global Relations) with the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation), aims to draw that information together so that contributors can check their work is included, see what colleagues are working on, and have this work recognised. 

» Check the database

 

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OTHER NEWS | EVENTS



Calls | Opportunities


Call for Content - Feminist Studies
Inviting commentaries that take up the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for feminist analyses of capitalism. Deadline 15 July
» further details
COVID-19 Mental Health and Wellbeing Innovation Grants Program (MHWIGP)
$350,000 in funding available to support initiativesto support the mental health and wellbeing of the community as it rebuilds from the impacts of the pandemic. Deadline 17 July
» further details
Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow/Associate Professor, Gender and Women’s History
The Australian Catholic University in Melbourne is seeking further researchers (senior, mid and early career) of outstanding achievement with expertise in gender and women's history to join its recently established research Centre in either fixed-term or continuing research-only positions. Deadline 19 July
» further details
Audrey Fagan Young Women’s Enrichment Grants
Young women aged between 12 and 18, residents of the ACT or undertaking education in the ACT are eligible to apply. The program provides one off grants of up to $2,000 to support young women to achieve a project in their area of interest. Deadline 28 July
» further details
The Carolyn Allport Scholarship for Postgraduate Feminist Studies by Research 
Available for a woman undertaking postgraduate feminist studies, by research, in any discipline, awarding $5,000 per year for a maximum of 3 years to the successful applicant. Applicants must be currently enrolled in postgraduate studies, by research, in an academic award of an Australian public university. Deadline 31 July

Call for Papers: Beijing Platform for Action at 25: progress, retreat and the future of women’s rights
Inviting abstracts for papers that address any aspect of the Beijing Conference, Declaration or Platform for Action including issues related to the impact of the conference, implementation of the Platform and future relevance. Deadline 31 July
» further details
 

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Events
Presenting options for a Safe Haven Café Concept for the ACT
In this webinar you will have the opportunity to ask questions and discuss potential Safe Haven Cafe models for the ACT.
Event date: 2-3.30pm, 7 July 
Registration: Eventbrite

 

Articles
Where are the women experts on covid-19? Mostly missing
The covid-19 pandemic has surfaced many distressing truths about ingrained structural and systemic bias across society, from horrific racial injustice to disproportionate economic impacts on women
» read more
As the global community fights COVID-19, the productivity and scientific output of female academics are disproportionately affected, leading to loss of women's scientific expertise from the public realm
» read more

Why does Covid-19 kill more men than women? Researchers grapple with gender mystery
Australian project to remove the sex and gender biases commonly seen in medical research to study global coronavirus data for men and women separately

Extending free childcare could fuel huge boost to economy, report says
Economists’ study says permanently free childcare would provide short-term stimulus and drive long-term growth
» read more
Sexual harassment in the legal profession is longstanding, and has proven an intractable problem in its incidence, reporting and effects
» read more
All colours of the rainbow: why Tasmania’s new gender identity laws are warranted
As a society, we are coming to accept that sex and gender are not binary, but a diverse spectrum between male and female

Cultural catastrophe: how the fallout from crises adversely affects girls’ lives
Public health crises can reshape society as we know it. They can also exacerbate gender inequality, with corrosive effects for girls around the world

 






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