Report Hub: Leadership and Negotiation

Advancing Women: Increasing the participation of women in senior roles in the NSW public sector

1 September 2014
Origin: Women and Work Research Group, University of Sydney Business School
Tagged: ‘Gender Equality’, ‘Australian Public Service’, ‘Leadership’, ‘Female Workforce’

Prepared for the NSW Public Service Commission, this report focuses its macro-lens on women leaders. The report concerns itself with what support and barriers exist for women on the trajectory towards seniority and offers recommendations.

The Women in Public Service Project: Meeting the 50x50 challenge

1 August 2014
Origin: Wilson Center; WPSP Global Network
Tagged: ‘Gender Equality’, ‘Women’, ‘Leadership’, ‘Female Workforce’, ‘Gender Bias’

“Globally, women are vastly underrepresented in leadership positions across all sectors and regions. (…) To date, only 37 countries have reached the 30 percent mark in national legislative bodies, which is recognized as the critical mass of change.”

Representation of Women in Australian Parliaments 2014

9 July 2014
Origin: Department of Parliamentary Services
Tagged: ‘Empowerment’, ‘Female Workforce’, ‘Federal Government’

"Across Australia women continue to be significantly under-represented in parliament and executive government, comprising less than one-third of all parliamentarians and one-fifth of all ministers."

Everyday Moments of Truth: Frontline managers are key to women’s career aspirations

17 June 2014
Origin: Bain and Company
Tagged: ‘Empowerment’, ‘Female Workforce’, ‘Gender Bias’, ‘Gender Culture’

"We surveyed more than 1,000 men and women in the US at all career levels, asking specifically about their interest in pursuing a top management position (board, CEO level, and one or two levels below CEO) in a large company."

It Starts With Us: The leadership shadow

1 March 2014
Origin: Chief Executive Women; Male Champions of Change
Tagged: ‘Gender Equality’, ‘Gender Diversity’, ‘Empowerment’, ‘Female Workforce’, ‘Gender Culture’, ‘CEW’

The authors of this report offer a top-down model to encourage progress toward organisation-wide gender parity.

Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?

22 August 2013
Origin: Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic; Harvard Business Review
Tagged: ‘Women’, ‘Leadership’, ‘Gender Bias’, ‘Gender Culture’

Women in Leadership: Understanding the gender gap

1 June 2013
Origin: Committee for Economic Development of Australia
Tagged: ‘Gender Bias’, ‘Gender Culture’

“This publication examines why women continue to be underrepresented in leadership positions and paid less than their male colleagues in the Australian workforce, looking at the full spectrum of issues”.

Some Ceilings Have More Cracks: Representative bureaucracy in federal regulatory agencies

1 January 2013
Origin: The American Review of Public Administration 43(1) 50–71
Tagged: ‘Gender Bias’, ‘Gender Culture’, ‘Government’

“Integrating management literature on men and women in leadership with existing work on representative bureaucracy, this study constructed a new data set examining the distribution of women in leadership in 118 U.S. federal regulatory organizations.”