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Edith Cowan University Research Online ECU Publications Pre. 2011 1993 Women in leadership program 1993: National conference: Women's voices: Challenging for the future Pauline Carroll (Ed.) Follow this and additional works at: https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworks Part of the Gender and Sexuality Commons, and the Human Resources Management Commons Carroll, P. (Ed.). (1993). Women in leadership program 1993: National conference: Women's voices: Challenging for the future. Churchlands, Australia: Edith Cowan University. This Conference Proceeding is posted at Research Online. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworks/6892 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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Higher penalties may apply, and higher damages may be awarded, for offences and infringements involving the conversion of material into digital or electronic form. 2 NA T I ON A L Co NF E R E N C E OMEN IN LEADER~HIP PROGRAM l~~l Women J CZJoimJ. · ~uzg Yol/ .9ke Ytttaw Contributions Editor: Pauline Carroll EDITH COWAN UNIVERSllY LIBRARY EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY ·~ ·• :.•" .. ISBN O 908008 29 5 © Women in Leadership 1994 Publisher: Edith Cowan University Pearson Street Churchlands Western Australia 2 93. Using Charisma to Enhance Your Personal INTRODUCTION Communication and Leadership Style 7. Christine Hogan Challenging Tradition: The Power of Voice in Creating an Alternative Vision 101. Poppy Keynote Address Lekkie Hopkins Dr Patricia Brennan 105. Working in a Remote Aboriginal Community 11. Identity and Diversity: Lessons forLeadership Jane E Lawton Keynote Address Mara West 109. Negotiating Your Wages at theWorkplace: Potential and Reality forWomen 15. A Curriculum of Angels: On (Not) Writing About Susan Lewis and Helen Thomas the Lives of Women with HIV/ AIDS Keynote Address 125. Women and Corporate Leadership: Dr Patti Lather The Transformers or the Transformed Dr Susan Long 25. The Wise Project: Encouraging Young Women to Study Engineering and the Physical Sciences 133. EEO Friendly Organisations Anne-MarieAnderson Catlyne A.E. Margrain 31. 139. The Agony and the Ecstasy: Forming a Women's Ways of Working in Academia Professional Women's Group Elaine Martin and Jenni Smith Meredith Arcus 145. Women in Science and Engineering: 35. Women's Educational Leadership in New 'Hard' Why Aren't There More? Times Anne Mitchell Jill Blackmore 149. Doing it Right: Aboriginal Terms of Reference 49. Organisations of the Future: Women as Change and Competency Standards Development Agents Wendy Murray and Glenis Grogan Dr Wendy Cahill 153. Real Consultation or "Just for Noting": Women 55. Women and Award Restructuring in Universities and Community Planning Jan Currie Carolyn Ozturk 69. E eriences in Developing Women in 155. xp Challenging Complicity: The Voice of Management Professional Women Birgit Dell'Antonio Susan Shannon 75. Transforming an Organisation 163. New Roles forWomen: More Choices Sue Dixon Susan Sharpe 79. Is National Service More Important 169. How Professional Organisations Assist Women in than Community Service? Leadership: The Role of IPSA in Challenging for Roman Edward-Moon the Future L ne Shickert 87. How Wise is Your Vision? yn Fleur Fallon 175. Recruitment of Senior Executives in the Western 91. Being Taken Seriously: Women's Voices Australian Public Sector: Where are the Women? Rachel Green Karen Thomson 181. Women in Uniform: Women and Corporate Culture Lyn Waister 185. Women Never Retire: Women's Experience of Retirement Pamela Weatherill 191. A Question of Style or Value? Contrasting Perceptions of Women as Educational Leaders Gaby Weiner 197. Women, Advertising and Superannuation: Qualitative Research Findings Margie White 207. Stopping the Ears while Trying to Steal the Bell: Instructional Design Practices in Distance Education and the Post Modern Debate Jane Widdess The Women in Leadership Program is an exciting development initiative that, over a three year period, has had a visible effect on attitudes towards leadership and the role of women in organisations. As part of the program, through the generous funding support of the Commonwealth Staff Develop­ ment Fund, the goodwill of staff and the commitment of women examining the leadership challenges facing Australian society today, Edith Cowan University has hosted a National Women in Leadership Conference for the past two years. This Conference provides an ongoing opportunity for women from varied and diverse roles to contribute to our knowledge and understanding of leadership. The theme of the 1993 Conference, Women's Voices: Challengingfor the Future, highlights the richness and strength of women in Australian society. Each contributor to this publication, in her different way, testifies to the power of women's voices and the substance of the leadership challenge. The papers have been reproduced in their entirety and, in the main, reflect the style of each individual author. We present them to you with pleasure. .Yaa;tde .9Ttttdtlmon Deputy Director Division of Human Resource Management November, 1994 5 6 The solid establishment however of religious lan­ guage, practice and symbol that was almost exclusively masculine had so powerfully become the norm for Christianity that multiple attempts by women through the ages, wherever they could think to question the authority of orthodox knowledge, were repeatedly crushed. A masculine Godhead was the essence of masculine su­ The Power of Voice in Creating premacy and it was reflected in God's locum tenens on an Alternative Vision earth, the male priest. It was when women finally tackled this office that reform became a newly serious enterprise. The use of voice in declaring wrong was being done DR PATRICIA BRENNAN in the church requires not just an idea but fleshed out COMMUNITY CONSULTANT people, their actual presence, their vulnerability and with it an authoritative claim in a public place that invites My participation in reforming the role of women was retribution. not as an academic or a writer of papers but as very In the early eighties when the Australian Anglican specifically a voice, along with others, breaking the church was quite indifferent to the reality of women silence largely through the national media on the ministers in the Uniting church, but more so to women subjugation of women in the Anglican Church. priests in Anglican churches overseas from 1974 on, it When it comes to a religious tradition the use of was the decision by a group of Anglican women in Sydney women's voices to challenge those in orthodox power is to start a national movement to put the church's sexist full of irony, since to be a woman is to be compelled to practices on notice. silence under the 'magna carta' of women's oppression, 1984 saw the birth of the National Movement for the specifically written in the New Testament: "I permit no Ordination of Women. And a struggle that was to con­ women to speak or have authority over men for she must sume at least a decade of my life began. While the learn in all silence". machinery of a fully financed church administration So much of what has been women's religious experience slowly turned on the minor question of women, our and history, because they were silenced in the official destinies, our phones, our previously private houses, our locations of power such as formal theological scholarship money and our waking moments were directed towards and liturgy, rested in the evanescence of speech and like all the thorough critique of a system that till now had oral tradition left only faint traces in the recorded culture. procured our silence. It was about to have to hear us or As expressed by Adrienne Rich: read about us as the popular media offered the chance These things by women saved for Portia to put her case in public. are all we have of them. The drama began to unfold on our television sets in These scraps turned into patchwork, prime time and it was a strange cast. On the one hand a doll-gowns, clean white rags group of university educated women, locating themselves for staunching blood... on the streets outside cathedrals like a bunch of feminist Universe of humble things urban guerrillas, as a guard of dishonour to long lines of and without these, no memory processing patriarchs, bedecked in fine long dresses. no faithfulness, no purpose for the future From choir boys to patri~rchal bishops, they swept into no honour to the past cathedrals that they aloµe presided in, still unaware of Ironically, the same trace records of women survive the reform that was about to take place. in the Christian scriptures, recording the misogyny and In terms of its central theme, religious orthodoxy the patriarchy but also the evidence of women's vital required the full cooperation of women in a subjugated participation in the life of Israel and later in early location and in synod after synod the vote to change that Christian communities. Even the evidence that they were location was lost. Reform reached its most dramatic point leaders and teachers.

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