Resources, Facts and Figures

Below are recommended readings and viewings to increase knowledge of gender equity issues and actions which you may find useful.  All titles come recommended from members of the GEAR Team.

Articles

1.  Why Does Workplace Gender Diversity Matter?  Social Issues and Policy Review Vol 14. No 1. 2020

2. Ten Simple Rules to Achieve Conference Speaker Gender Balance.  PLoS Comput Biol 10(11): e1003903

Books

1. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men - by Caroline Criado Perez

2. Men at Work: Australia's Parenthood Trap - by Annabel Crabb

3. Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons - by Julia Gillard and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

4. See What you Made Me Do:  Power, Control and Domestic Abuse - by Jess Hill

5. Beating the Odds: a practical guide to navigating sexism in Australian universities - by Marcia Devlin

Webinars

1. Gender Equity Insights 2022 - a Bankwest and WGEA:  Gender Equity Insights 2022:  The State of inequality in Australia

Movies

1. Brazen Hussies - a documentary celebrating the bold women of the Women's Liberation Movement who reignited Australia's feminist revolution

2. Picture a Scientist - chronicles the groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists

3. Women of Steel -  the inspirational campaign to win 'jobs for women'

4. The Bystander Moment -  The #MeToo movement has shined much-needed light on the pervasiveness of sexual harassment and abuse and created unprecedented demand for gender violence prevention models that actually work. The Bystander Moment tells the story of one of the most prominent and proven of these models - the innovative bystander approach developed by pioneering scholar and activist Jackson Katz and his colleagues at Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society in the 1990s.

5. Ms Represented - One hundred years after Australia elected its very first female parliamentarian, Annabel Crabb presents Ms Represented, a raw and honest account of politics from the female perspective.

Department of Industry, Sciences and Resources: STEM - Equity Monitor

ARC female and male investigators and success rates from 2011 - present - view interactive graphs showing all universities and JCU.

Gender Equity in STEMM - SAGE data gender representation by student completions and academic level.

JCU Gender Data for staff and students is available in Cognos (JCU Login required)

The Women in STEM portal supports evaluation of STEM equity initiatives.