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Women and Work series

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Tuesday 16th November, 5:30pm
The Work and Family Debate: Working For or Against Gender Equality in the Workplace?

Dr Sara Charlesworth
Research Fellow, RMIT

Sara Charlesworth is employed as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Social Research at RMIT University. Sara’s research interests include gender equality in employment, industrial and anti-discrimination legislation, quality part-time work, and the intersection of work and family. She is currently working on a number of Australian Research Council funded projects. These include research on understandings of sex discrimination in the workplace, the ‘quality’ of part-time work, and the 'dual agenda' of gender-equitable work-life and business outcomes. Sara was a member of the Victorian Equal Opportunity Board from 1988 to 1994 and a member of the Social Security Appeals Tribunal from 1994 to 2001. She is currently a co-editor of Labour and Industry.

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The Policy Difficulty of Women

Melinda Cilento
Chief Economist, Business Council of Australia

Melinda Cilento joined the Business Council of Australia in April 2002. Melinda has public and private sector
experience in economic policy development and analysis. Prior to joining the BCA Melinda worked with County Investment Management (now Invesco) as Head of Economics. Melinda has also worked with the Department of Treasury in various roles, and spent two years working at the International Monetary Fund as the
technical assistant to the Australian Executive Director.

Melinda has a Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) and a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) from Flinders University, and a Masters of Economics from the Australian National University.

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Tuesday 23rd November, 5:30pm

Flexible, Casual and Balanced: The Perfect Woman of the Future?

Ellen Kleimaker
Women's and Equity Officer, Victorian Trades Hall Council

Ellen Kleimaker is currently employed with Victorian Trades Hall Council as the Women's and Equity Officer. This involves some of the following: Chairing and organizing the TH Women's Committee; running training programs for union women; working with disability advocates and other unionists on issues related to workers with disabilities in sheltered workshops, running a campaign on violence against women in the workplace, Ellen also works on issues related to the rights of Aboriginal workers, Gay, Lesbian and Transgender workers and Migrant workers.

In Germany, Ellen worked in the trade union movement but after her arrival in Australia in 1983 she started working in the area of domestic violence and women's health with a particular focus on women from non-English speaking backgrounds. She is interested in the politics of marginalisation and division on grounds of gender, race, class and how this creates 'the other' and the impact this has on all of us.

How employed mothers allocate time for work and family: a new framework

Dr Alison Morehead
Australian Institute of Family Studies

Dr Alison Morehead is Deputy Director, Research, at the Australian Institute of Family Studies. Prior to this she was Director of Evaluations and Surveys in the federal Department of Education, Science and Training. For three years she was Director of the Work and Family Unit in the federal Department of Employment and Workplace Relations. In 2001 she spent five months working with the International Labour Office in Geneva on their work and family program. The research presented in this paper was conducted at Sydney University as part of the author’s PhD studies.

Tuesday 30th November, 5:30pm
Women, Work and Networks

Professor Philippa (Pip) Pattison 
Head, Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne

Pip Pattison is a quantitative social scientist with expertise in the modelling of social networks and social processes.  Her current research is focussed on the development of dynamic network-based models for social processes, and on applications of these models to a diverse range of phenomena, including: the epidemiology of mental health; organizational design; the emergence of markets in 15th century Florence; and the spread of communicable diseases.   Pip was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 1995 and is a member of the National Science Foundation’s Advisory Panel on Methodology, Measurement and Statistics. Pip is currently Head of the School of Behavioural Science and Vice President of the Academic Board at the University of Melbourne.

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Work, Welfare and Women's Health

Dr Margaret Kelaher
School of Population Health, University of Melbourne

Margaret Kelaher (BSc (Hons), PhD) currently holds a National Health and Medical Research Council Career Development Award and a VicHealth Senior Research Fellowship. At the Program Evaluation Unit, she has been teaching Masters-level health program evaluation and conducting training for a UNDP/World Bank/WHO Tropical Diseases (TDR) initiative to develop capacity for social, economic and behavioural research. She has also been involved in evaluations of the supply of pharmaceuticals to remote area Aboriginal communities and of the Best Start Program. From 1998-2001, Dr Kelaher was at Columbia University, studying the impact of health policy reform on health service utilisation among disadvantaged groups, and the mental and physical health of Vietnam veterans. From 1995-1998, she was at the University of Queensland, directing the indigenous and immigrant components of the Australian Longitudinal Study of Women's Health, which resulted in a number of important publications about mental health issues. She is continuing this work in her current position, focussing on indigenous health and the impact of welfare reform on women's health.

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