Women and Work Research Group (WWRG)
To understand and progress women's working lives
The Women and Work Research Group (WWRG) provides high quality research, research training and consultancy on all aspects of women's experience of work, employment, family and community in Australia and the Asia-Pacific Region. Over the past two years, WWRG's work has covered parental, maternity and paternity leave, flexible working and carers issues, migrant women and work, pay equity and equal opportunity for women in the workplace and women's health issues at work.
- WWRG Director: Dr Marian Baird, Professor of Employment Relations
- WWRG Research Associate: Alexandra Heron
Upcoming Events
- 'The Thought of Work': a presentation on his recent book, which is an interdisciplinary synthesis of ten meanings of work that shows the centrality of work in our lives, identity politics, and society
Professor John Budd, University of Minnesota, USA
17 February 2012 12:30pm-2:00pm The Darlington Centre, University of Sydney - Female part-time managers, career trajectories, role models and aspirations
Jennifer Tomlinson, Senior Lecturer in Employment Relations, Leeds University, UK
8th Mar 2012 12:30pm-2:00pm Darlington Centre, University of Sydney - Equalities, Inequalites and Diversity
Professor Geraldine Healy of Queen Mary College, the University of London is visiting the WWRG in 2012 and will give the seminar on her forthcoming co-edited collection Equalities, Inequalites and Diversity (Palgrave (in press)).
22 March (TBC) 2012 12:30pm-2:00pm The Darlington Centre, University of Sydney
Previous Events
- Family leave policies and organisational mediation: how workplace organisation influences the take-up of family related leaves
Professor Bernard Fusulier, the University of Louvain, Belgium
8 December 2011 3:30pm-5:00pm. The Darlington Centre, University of Sydney - 'Stolen Children: Stolen Wages': Aboriginal women as reproducers and producers in white Australia
Leanne Cutcher, Teresa Davis and Talia Milroy, Business School, University of Sydney
22nd Sep 2011 12:30pm-2:00pm The Darlington Centre, University of Sydney - Who cares? Employer and employee responses to employee eldercare responsibilities
Alexandra Heron and Marian Baird, Women and Work Research Group
28th Jul 2011 12:30pm-2:00pm The Darlington Centre, University of Sydney
Current Issues & Publications
Women, Work and the Global Economic Downturn, a WWRG research report
- Women, Work and the Global Economic Downturn
published by the Australian Office for Women in 2011
Mature Age Workers and Eldercare, a WWRG research report
- Taking Care: Mature age workers with elder care responsibilities released by NSW OIR for 2010 Carers Week
The Government Review of the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Act and Agency is underway