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Women in Leadership National Conference 1992: Women, Communication and Power Edith Cowan University Research Online ECU Publications Pre. 2011 1992 Women in Leadership National Conference 1992: Women, communication and power Margaret Butterworth (Ed.) Follow this and additional works at: https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworks Part of the Human Resources Management Commons, and the Women's Studies Commons Butterworth, M. (Ed.). (1992). Women in Leadership National Conference 1992: Women, communication and power. Perth, Australia: Edith Cowan University. This Conference Proceeding is posted at Research Online. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworks/6944 Edith Cowan University Copyright Warning You may print or download ONE copy of this document for the purpose of your own research or study. The University does not authorize you to copy, communicate or otherwise make available electronically to any other person any copyright material contained on this site. 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WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP , NATIONAL CONFERENCE 1992 0 EN, CO UNICATION - AND PO ER EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY - women, communication and power ~®miD®rn firn il®®cill®IT~Ilnfi)J) TID®t1fi®TID®il ©®illlll@IT@illl©@ Edith Cowan University Conference Convenor: Susan Robertson Proceedings Editor: Margaret Butterworth J I Contents Dimensions of Power June Williams 7 Women, Communication and Power Anna Yeatman 11 "Ignorance is not bliss"; and a couple of other points besides Sally Kennedy 19 Women are Powerful! Believing in Ourselves and Making the Difference Jocelynne A. Scutt 25 Gender Differences in Spreadsheet Development: Can Women do Spreadsheets? MJJHall 33 Women: Communication. Power and New Technologies Linda Wilkins 39 The Relationship Between Sex-Role Identity and Role Portrayal of Women in Advertising Margie White 47 Language, Identity and Women in Leadership Pat Klinck 57 Habermas should have been a Woman Jean Hillier 61 Sexing the Cherry: Re-Conceiving Women Lekkie Hopkins 67 Employer Sponsored Child Care: A Public Policy. Perspective Cathy Scott 73 Disciplining Academia: Women Academics and Possibilities for Change Janine Collins 77 1 The Glass Ceiling - Applicable in Academia Alison Sheridan 87 Women Managers in a Diversified Management Team: Prospects for the Australian Mining Industry Catherine Smith, Margaret Crowley and Jacquie Hutchinson 95 The Hidden Criteria which Contribute to your Position in the Workplace Marilys Guillemin 103 Gender in the National Training Agenda: The new training reforms and what's in it for women Rachel Robertson & Susan Lewis 111 The Power of Language in the Workplace Anne Pauwels & Joanne Winter 117 Issues Arising from Teacher Appraisal Procedures in the UK andWA Anne M Jasman 125 -. Representation of Females at Head of Department Level Regina Bloot 135 Beginning Female Principals in Small Rural Schools and the Gender-Related Issues Mfecting their New Roles Gail McLay 147 Deliberate Deceptio·n or Determined Disinterest Jacquie Hutchinson 155 Let's Explode some Myths 'about Power and Empowerment Christine Hogan 163 Empowering Women through Mentodng Jeanne Madison 179 Political Praxis- An Exercise in Communication Jane Widdess 185 Women in Leadership: the Facilitators' Experience Marie Finlay, Pat Klinck, Deborah Pearson 191 Fight Back: Women Empowering Women in a Regional University Leoni Rowan 193 2 women, communication and power Putting Gender on the Agenda in Teacher Education: A Personal Perspective Janina Trotman 199 Group Narratives - Reflections of the Women in Leadership Programme Group A 211 Redefining Leadership: Finding the Right Jungle Group C 211 List of Delegates 213 3 Introduction Women's worlds have changed and so has worn­ develop a public voice and to create an appropriate en's work. Yet, despite such significant changes, environment in which the Conference could suc­ there has been little ground gained with regard to ceed under the terms it had set for itself. On all of women occupying key positions in significant those counts it was a stunning success. aspects of social, political and organizational life in Australia. Organizations still operate to exclude The Conference opened with an insightful address women from positions of power and influence. The from Commissioner of Equal Opportunity, June challenge remains: How can women individually Williams. She pointed to the uneasy and complex and collectively work at various levels of the relationship between women and power and organization and have their contributions are argued that "power is about the ability to do, and acknowledged, valued and rewarded ? having access to whatever is needed for the doing." However, as Commissioner Williams pointed out, Clearly there are no simple answers. Instead, this the daily reality of employment discrimination and general question raises further more specific ones. sexual harassment for women is a constant For example, what does effective organizational reminder of just how little power women have over leadership mean for women? How might women key aspects of their lives. For that reason it is define and understand power in ways that are critical that progress is made on legislative sup­ enabling rather than limiting? How might women ports to women. However, while these forms of develop their voices authentically yet strategically legal support for women can be empowering, they so that they are not only be heard but listened to? nonetheless still discriminate against women with aboriginal or ethnic backgrounds. The Women in Leadership (WIL) Programme, out of which the 1992 Conference flowed, sought to Professor Anna Yeatman from Waikato University address these very questions. The Conference New Zealand gave the keynote address. It was an theme, Women Communication and Power, inspiring exploration of the Conference theme - provided a powerful means for opening up a lively power. She began by asking whether the feminist and insightful debate on such important iss~es. movement's conceptions of power and communica­ The Conference focussed on women, power and tion were adequate in order to create a vision for communication in the contexts of place, work and the future. Professor Yeatman explored three the wider world, and drew women from diverse distinct fernmist conceptions of power: protection, organizations and backgrounds around Australia coercion and capacity. Protection and coercion, and overseas. Keynote speakers of international she claimed are both negative. For that reason standing presented keynote addresses, and more these paternalistic models of power must be than fifty women offered workshops across a broad challenged in favour of an alternative model which range of issues related to the conference theme. In enhanced the capacities of individuals or self­ short the Conference was a forum for women to identified groups to govern themselves. Professor share, celebrate, and publicly air a diversity of Yeatman argued that by developing a conception voices. of power as action and capacity, we are then able to be both agents and ethical beings. This concep­ The Conference was only one component of the tion of power has three outcomes: it locates Women in Leadership Programme. It nonetheless women within power, not outside it; it distin­ concluded more than a year of reflecting, develop­ guishes between power and domination; and it ment and strategizing. The Women in Leadership allows males and females to respond in individual­ Programme drew its momentum from the anger ized ways rather than as males or females. This and alienation of women at Edith Cowan Univer­ opens up new possibilities for governing and sity. Women there felt that "for too long they had ernancipatory interests to work together to chart a been excluded from leadership and decisionrnak­ more inclusive and democratic path. ing" (Milligan and Genoni, 1993: ll). The result was the development of a systematic and strategic In addressing the Conference sub-theme, women's programme which challenged the culture and work, Dr. Sally Kennedy, Commissioner in Indus­ shape of the organization. It drew upon a concep­ trial Relations in Western Australia explored the tual framework for leadership and change devel­ limitations women impose on themselves when oped by the Programme's organizing group. This they simply fail to know the basics about our work conceptual framework was based upon four key and workplace rights raised the important ques­ capacities central to leadership: work identity and tion: Just how much do we know about our world competence, creator of environments, strategist, of work? Very quickly she could show we are and public voice. guilty of knowing very little. And if that is the case, how is it possible that we might exercise power in Very early on the Conference organizing committee our workplace and
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