Report Hub: Public Sector
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The Role of Middle Managers in Progressing Gender Equity in the Public Sector
"Despite the expressed commitment and actions to support gender equity in most jurisdictions, progress towards gender equity in the workplace has been uneven."
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Roadmap to 50x50: Power and Parity in Women’s Leadership
This report "illustrates a roadmap to balanced parity, looking at both glass ceilings (the number of women in leadership) and glass walls (women’s leadership across policy functions). The Leadership Index provides a country-by-country snapshot of where wo
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Gender Balance on Australian Government Boards 2016-17
On 1 July 2016, the Government’s new target of women holding 50 per cent of Government board positions overall, and men and women each holding at least 40 per cent of positions on individual boards, came into effect. As at 30 June 2017, women held 42.7 pe
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Embedding Gender Equality in the Australian Public Service: Changing practices, changing cultures
"Drawing on rich qualitative data derived from hundreds of hours of interviews (...) this report identifies some of the opportunities and challenges APS agencies have faced in their efforts to progress — and embed — gender equality."
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State of the Service Report 2016-17
"Balancing the Future: APS Gender Equality Strategy 2016–19 was launched in April 2016. Since then, significant activity has occurred across the APS as agencies implement the strategy through agency-specific gender action plans."
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Going Blind to See More Clearly: Unconscious bias in Australian Public Service shortlisting processes
This study empirically considers the preliminary stages of the recruitment process at the level of senior APS roles, and queries whether women and minorities are given differential appraisals.
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Keys to Elected Office: The essential guide for women
This guide utilises past research, commissioned by the Barbara Lee Family Foundation, to discuss voter attitudes towards women candidates and offers itself as an essential guide for women seeking to run as candidate for governor.
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Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment Gender Equality Action Plan
This strategic plan offers an industry-specific framework advocating for gender equality within DPIPWE.
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Women’s Leadership Matters: The impact of women’s leadership in the Canadian federal public service
Written within the Canadian context, where 46% of women sit at the executive level of the public sector, this report queries what impact women at the executive level have on programs, management and policy.
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Balancing the Future: The Australian Public Service Gender Equality Strategy 2016-2019
This report "sets out actions for driving high performance and boosting productivity in the Australian Public Service (APS) [and] is a strategy for harnessing the best talent, changing cultures, and challenging assumptions that hold us back."
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Queensland Women’s Strategy 2016–21
Acknowledging the socio-economic contributions of women and girls to the State of Queensland, this strategy aims to champion gender equity. The report outlines areas which require improved support, and offers recommendations for action.
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Queensland Public Sector Gender Equity Strategy 2015–2020
This report by the Queensland PSC “aims to challenge myths such as the definition of merit, and assumptions such as gender stereotypes, to ensure both men and women enjoy the same opportunities to shape and influence their own lives and careers.”
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