ANU GENDER INSTITUTE REPORT 2013-2014

genderinstitute.anu.edu.au CONTENTS

From the Convener 2 People and Structure of the Gender Institute 4 Events Celebration: Gender Institute 2nd and 3rd Anniversary events 8-9 Engagement with contemporary public affairs and policy 10 Signature Events 11-14 Violence Against Women 15 Women Peace and Security Agenda 2013-2014 16-18 Feminist Theory and Practice 19 Promoting Feminist Scholarship 20 Transnational Feminisms 21 Showcasing Women's Achievements 22 Australian Inspiring Women Public Lecture 22 Women in Academia 23 Practical Support for Women in Academia 24 Supporting Graduate Students and Early Career Researchers 26 Undergraduate Focus 28-29 Outreach 30 Consultancy 31 ANU Inspiring Women 32-33 International Women's Day 34 Members News 35 Prizes for Excellence in Gender Research 36-37 Fellowship Report 38 Grants 39 ANU Gender Institute PhD Scholarship Report 40 Future Events 41

ANU Gender Institute Report 2013-2014 1 FROM THE CONVENER

“The ANU Gender Institute is a unique and important model, combining a very broad range of scholarly interests with highly practical concerns for gender equality.”

Particularly strong points of focus have been our engagement with the Women, Peace and Security agenda following from UN Resolution 1325; our academic and practical interest in the problems of realising gender equality in workplaces; tracking feminist developments in scholarship; and engaging with questions of public interest, where gender shapes contemporary social and political life. As convener since the start of 2013, I have had many wonderful opportunities to meet with our members and friends, at ANU and beyond. My speaking invitations have included those from staff associations at CSIRO and Government House, as well as from the women’s caucus of the Australian Education Union. It has been a pleasure to attend and open many of the workshops and conferences supported by our grants, always a great opportunity to learn about what is happening at the cutting edge of scholarship, activism and policy. I attended meetings of the International It is with great pleasure that I bring you this report of the last Alliance of Research Universities and the EU Gender Summit, two year’s activities at the ANU Gender Institute. We have finding out how much we share with international colleagues grown and flourished, in many respects exceeding the in our ambitions to improve women’s status in academia. In all expectations of those we fondly think of as our ‘founding these contexts it becomes evident that the ANU Gender mothers’ – academic leaders who advocated powerfully for Institute is a unique and important model, combining a very our establishment in 2010 and who have been closely involved broad range of scholarly interests with highly practical ever since. The Gender Institute has developed an innovative and unique model, building gender research, education and concerns for gender equality. outreach with a national and international impact as well as Reflecting our policy work, in 2014 the Gender Institute was driving progress on gender equity at ANU and beyond. Our asked to prepare an Options Paper for the Office for Women, network brings together internationally excellent researchers advising on a model to deliver the Australian chapter of the and educators with expertise in a wide range of fields. We are Women in Public Service Project (WPSP). Australia has especially pleased by the internal and external partnerships partnered with the Woodrow Wilson Center for International that have developed since our establishment and the Scholars (Wilson Center) in this global initiative aimed at collaborations and conversations flowing from these continue improving the representation of women in public service. to enrich us. The overarching mission of the Women in Public Service The last two years have been extremely full and productive for Project is: us, hosting visiting scholars from all corners of the globe as well as high profile leaders and public figures at ANU. “To build a generation of women leaders who will invest Examples fill the pages that follow and we begin this report in their countries and communities, provide leadership in with some highlights, including welcome visits from UN their governments, and change the way global solutions Women’s Executive Director, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka are forged. To educate and train a new generation of and from Australia’ s Sex Discrimination Commissioner women to enter the public sector with the strategic Elizabeth Broderick. leadership skills, energy, and commitment required to tackle today’s global challenges.” Our events draw audiences and participants from across Canberra as well as across campus, and we are proud to This was a very exciting opportunity for us to connect with an have been the enablers of many important and influential influential global network so closely aligned with our own discussions in the nation’s capital. ambitions to realise gender equality. Further engagements

2 ANU Gender Institute with policy included a discussion paper, “Falling through the Both Susan and Kim were, moreover, named as ‘Women of Net?” provided to UN Women, that drew upon the Influence’ at the Australian Financial Review and Westpac 100 outstanding expertise regarding gender issues in the Pacific of 'Women of Influence' Awards. In addition, several large our ANU Gender Institute scholars. external grants and prestigious fellowships pursuing gender and feminist research have been won by our members. More In a welcome development for ANU, in 2014 the Vice- details of these and other achievements can be found in the Chancellor, Professor Ian Young AO, established and chaired news section below. a Gender Oversight Committee to provide leadership and direction in advancing the goals set out in the strategic plan In 2013-4 a very able team has supported and enhanced the for ANU by 2020. There remains a great deal to be done at work of the ANU Gender Institute. Martina Fechner played an ANU if the equity goals proposed in that document are to be important role in facilitating the transition from a home in the met. The Gender Institute management committee have been College of Law to the College of Arts and Social Sciences (the very active in this space, and many members have been convener’s college houses the Institute) and helped ensure working at equity and diversity initiatives. Our grants have continuity. She brought great warmth and humour to helped support a highly successful conference on Diversity in organising our many events. Barbara Clare took over the main Astronomy; the creation of a website for the Women in administrator role in 2014 with skill and verve, doing much to Biology network, as well as seminars on women in academia improve our website and newsletter, as well as aspects of our and in Public Service. We especially applaud the efforts of event management. Vital support has also been provided by ‘male champions’, notably Nobel Laureate Professor Brian Clare Southerton, Karen Smith and Karen Downing. Warm Schmidt, AC, in reinforcing the message that realising gender thanks to Stella Armstrong and her team in the Joint Office for equity is both an urgent matter of justice and essential for the the Schools of Philosophy and History for their regular progress of knowledge and innovation in the 21st Century. support. Our new administrator in 2015 is Jennifer Clynk, who has recently submitted a PhD thesis in Interdisciplinary “Particularly strong points Humanities at ANU, and brings a wide range of talents to the role. We thank the College of Arts and Social Sciences for of focus have been our hosting the Institute in 2013-14, and on into 2015. engagement with the The Management Committee is a very fine team, with whom it is a great privilege to work. My warmest thanks to Hilary Women, Peace and Security Charlesworth, Celine D’Orgeville, Margaret Jolly, Helen Keane agenda following from and Kim Rubenstein for your wise council and unfailing good humour. Inge Saris also gave great service to the Gender UN Resolution 1325; our Institute throughout 2013, and her input is much missed. academic and practical interest in the problems of Dr Fiona Jenkins Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophy realising gender equality in Research School of Social Sciences workplaces; tracking feminist College of Arts and Social Sciences developments in scholarship; and engaging with questions of public interest, where gender shapes contemporary social and political life.”

There can be no doubt that we have many exceptional women at ANU and the Gender Institute plays a key role in supporting their work and foregrounding their achievements to the wider community. To give just a couple of highlights over the last 2 years: Professor Kim Rubenstein received the Edna Ryan award for Leadership in 2013, which acknowledges and celebrates women who are prepared to make their lives political and who are making a feminist difference, and Dr Susan Harris-Rimmer attended the Commission on the Status of Women in New York in 2014.

ANU Gender Institute Report 2013-2014 3 PEOPLE AND STRUCTURE OF THE GENDER INSTITUTE

Convener of the Gender Institute

Dr Fiona Jenkins, senior lecturer in the School of Philosophy, Research School of Social Sciences in the College of Arts and Social Sciences, assumed the role as convener of the Gender Institute in 2013. Dr Jenkins’ own research covers two projects, one on Judith Butler, which focuses on questions of political legitimacy, violence and non-violence, in post-national frameworks; the other on gender equity in academic disciplines.

The Gender Institute Management Committee Throughout the year the Gender Institute Management Committee assists the convener in determining the directions of the Gender Institute, including the selection of successful grant Professor Hilary Charlesworth applications and the awarding of prizes for excellence in research. The Management Committee currently comprises: >> Hilary Charlesworth, Professor, ARC Laureate Fellow, Regulatory Institutions Network, College of Asia & the Pacific >> Céline d’Orgeville, Instrument Scientist - Laser Physics, Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics, ANU College of Physical & Mathematical Sciences >> Fiona Jenkins, Dr, School of Philosophy, College of Arts & Social Sciences and Convener of the ANU Gender Institute >> Margaret Jolly, Professor, ARC Laureate Fellow, School of Culture, History & Language, College of Asia & the Pacific

>> Helen Keane, Dr, Senior Lecturer, School of Sociology, Celine d’Orgeville ANU College of Arts and Social Science >> Kim Rubenstein, Professor, Centre for International & Public Law, ANU College of Law Previous members of the management committee are Dr Elissa Baniassad, Dr Alessandra Capezio, Professor Mahananda Dasgupta and Inge Saris.

Dr Fiona Jenkins

4 ANU Gender Institute Nodes

The Gender Institute is not an academic organisational unit; rather, it is a virtual centre composed of thirteen nodes linking Colleges through an integrated governance framework. ANU researchers, staff and graduate students can become members of the Gender Institute and align themselves with one or more nodes. Organised according to subject area, the current nodes are: >> Gender and population >> Gender, literature, performance and the arts >> Gender, biology and health >> Gender and history Professor Margaret Jolly >> Feminist theory >> Gender, development and environment >> Gender, politics and public policy >> Gender, sexuality and culture >> Gender, law and human rights >> Gender and anthropology >> Gender, business and economics >> Gender equity and employment >> Gender in science, maths, engineering and computing (SMEC) These nodes act as easily-identifiable markers for staff and students inside ANU, for the recruitment of undergraduate and graduate students, for the dissemination of research and for Dr Helen Keane outreach to other scholars, government departments, NGOs, international organisations, business corporations and the media. Staff representing different nodes form an Advisory Board of the Gender Institute, which meets twice a year. A list of ANU scholars and staff working in each of the nodes can be found on the ‘People’ page of our website: genderinstitute.anu.edu.au/page/people

Diversity and Workforce Planning

The Gender Institute and the Diversity and Workforce Planning Branch (DWPB) have worked together in 2013-14 to raise awareness of gender issues in the workplace, and promote a working environment valuing diversity and inclusion with a commitment to ensuring equal opportunities for all ANU staff. For more information about DWPB activities and services go Professor Kim Rubenstein to hr.anu.edu.au/contact-us/hr-division-staff/diversity-and- workforce-planning.

ANU Gender Institute Report 2013-2014 5 ABOUT THE GENDER INSTITUTE

The Gender Institute is an exciting Visit our website initiative at ANU now entering it’s fifth The ANU Gender Institute website has regular updates year of operation. A cross-campus on gender research and equity initiatives undertaken by our members and beyond ANU. It lists upcoming events, virtual institute, it provides a focus for the achievements and projects of our members as well as existing activity on issues of gender and full listings of grant and award recipients. Please visit the sexuality and a catalyst to develop and Resources portal which includes all podcasts, reports and articles of interest, as well as ANU equity resources. deepen them.

The Gender Institute has two distinct but related tasks: The Gender Institute is grateful to the: >> support and deepen research, education and outreach >> College of Arts & Social Sciences for support with on gender and sexuality across the University, in particular facilities and administration promoting collaboration and linkages in this area across the >> College of Asia & the Pacific for website hosting seven Colleges. >> Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet) for web >> support the employment and retention of women and technical support gender diverse people at all levels, in all disciplines, across the University. To do this it also works closely with ANU *This report and the 2011- 2012 report are available to Diversity and Workforce Planning Branch on programs to download in digital PDF format from our website at support the attraction and retention of women staff. genderinstitute.anu.edu.au/page/about-gender-institute The Institute encompasses academics and graduate students *Please use the digital format to follow hyperlinked text for across all seven ANU Colleges: ANU College of Arts & Social additional information contained in this report. Sciences, ANU College of Asia & the Pacific, ANU College of Law, ANU College of Medicine, Biology & the Environment, ANU College of Business & Economics, ANU College of Engineering & Computer Science and ANU College of Physical & Mathematical Sciences. More than 1400 people around the world subscribe to the weekly newsletter and 113 ANU academics, graduate students and some professional staff have signed up as Gender Institute members.

Become a member

Staff members or graduate students at ANU who are involved in research relating to gender and sexuality or have an interest in gender equity issues are invited to become members of the Gender Institute. Information on membership including a signup form is available on the Gender Institute website genderinstitute.anu.edu.au.

Subscribe to our newsletter People from the ANU and beyond who wish to be kept informed on the Institute’s activities, news and events are invited to subscribe to the Gender Institute weekly newsletter by visiting our home page at genderinstitute.anu.edu.au and following the subscription link. EVENTS

The Gender Institute presents, funds and supports a great many events and activities across the academic spectrum including seminars, lectures, forums, and workshops and master classes for postgraduate students and early career researchers.

The Institute also convenes and hosts meetings between academics within the ANU and visiting scholars or dignitaries. These events range from small topic focused seminars and workshops to large-scale public events and include co- presentations with partners within the ANU and beyond it. In 2013 and 2014 the convener sponsored two special series, Women in Academia (2013, co-convened with Joanna Sikora) and Feminist Theory Now (2014). The following pages include some of the highlights of 2013 – 2014. For a full list of previous Gender Institute events please visit our website at genderinstitute.anu.edu.au/past-events.

ANU Gender Institute Report 2013-2014 7 CELEBRATION

The Gender Institute 2nd Anniversary

The ANU Gender Institute celebrated its second anniversary on Friday 15 March 2013 in the Sir Roland Wilson Building at the ANU with 120 guests attending. The chair for the lunch time event, convener of the Institute Dr Fiona Jenkins, launched our new website and described the growth of the Gender Institute since its inaugural launch in 2011. Five excellent speakers provided a diverse range of thoughts and inspiration about ‘ANU by 2020 - Women and the Measures of Success: How will the ANU meet its 2020 target of raising the percentage of female academics, especially at senior levels?’ Panellists at 2nd Anniversary The panellists were: >> Professor Ian Young, Vice Chancellor; >> Professor Carola Vinuesa, Head of the Pathogens and Immunity Department at ANU John Curtin School of Medical Research; >> Professor Marian Sawer, Emeritus and Adjunct Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations, ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences; >> Professor Michael Coper, former Dean of ANU College of Law (up to 2012); and Ms Kelly Johnson, Senior Equity Consultant ANU Diversity & Workforce Planning Branch. >> Kelly Johnson, Equity Practitioner in Diversity and Workforce planning, HR Professor Michael Coper We also congratulated the winners of the 2012 Gender Institute prizes (see Prizes section).

Audience question time at 2nd Anniversary

8 ANU Gender Institute The Gender Institute 3rd Anniversary

The Gender Institute marked its third anniversary on Friday 21 March 2014 with an inspirational lecture and discussion with Sex Discrimination Commissioner Ms Elizabeth Broderick from the Australian Human Rights Commission. Commissioner Broderick was introduced by ANU Vice- Chancellor Professor Ian Young, AO who lauded her committed advocacy and confirmed ANU support for her goals: >> preventing violence against women and sexual harassment, >> improving lifetime economic security for women, >> balancing paid work and unpaid caring responsibilities, >> promoting women’s representation in leadership, and Elizabeth Broderick (Sex Discrimination Commissioner) >> strengthening gender equality laws, monitoring and agencies. Over 100 people attended the event and enjoyed a light lunch in the Hedley Bull reception area prior to proceedings. A recording of the event is available on our website at genderinstitute.anu.edu.au/gender-institute-third-anniversary We also congratulated the winners of the 2013 Gender Institute prizes (see Prizes section).

Vice-Chancellor Ian Young with Elizabeth Broderick

Dr Fiona Jenkins addressing the audience at the 3rd Anniversary

ANU Gender Institute Report 2013-2014 9 ENGAGEMENT WITH CONTEMPORARY PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND POLICY

Since its inception, the ANU Gender Institute has directly engaged with contemporary public affairs and policy on issues of gender equity and women’s rights, joining the global dialogue of governments and NGOs in Australia and across the world.

As such, the Institute is well placed to promote the Australian National University’s mandate to participate and inform public policy on the critical issues that shape Australia and the world in the 21st century. Gender equity is one such critical issue. Senator Michaelia Cash delivering the opening keynote address Investing in gender equality at the Group of 20 Leaders’ Summit, Brisbane, 2014

External partnerships between the ANU Gender Institute, government and non-government bodies provide opportunities for rich dialogue on gender issues that shape contemporary and future Australian and international society. On 24th September diplomatic representatives, academics and business leaders from across the globe gathered at ANU to discuss gender equality issues, ahead of the 2014 G20 Leaders’ Summit in Brisbane. This ground-breaking forum was organised by ANU Asia- Pacific College of Diplomacy academic Dr Susan Harris- Rimmer and supported by the ANU Gender Institute along with Presenters Chatham House, Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, School of International Political & Strategic Studies, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Asia Foundation. Speakers Aside from politics, the ANU Gender Institute was included the Minister assisting the Prime Minister for Women, also involved in conversations on parenthood, Senator Michaelia Cash; Dr Jeni Klugman, Senior Advisor at the World Bank; John Hendra, UN Women Deputy executive co-sponsoring a public lecture on 17 September director (video link) and Dr Rangita de Silva de Alwis, Director, 2013 titled Adoption by same-sex parents in Women in Public Service Project, via video. Western societies. The lecture was co-presented The event was also screened on Australia's Public Affairs with ARC Laureate Project Engendering Persons, Channel (APAC). Transforming Things held by Professor Margaret For podcasts, videos and transcripts of the event, please go to Jolly, and the lecture was delivered by Agnès Fine, the News page of the Gender Institute website. Professor (Directrice d’études) at the Ecole des The forum had considerable policy influence and has led to Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. the Government of Turkey featuring a W20 meeting on 16 September in Ankara as part of their official host year.

10 ANU Gender Institute Signature Event FRAMED? Julia Gillard & the gender wars

Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s political career was explored in a public panel event, Framed? Julia Gillard and the gender wars, held by the Gender Institute on 1 August 2014, the anniversary of the Australian Sex Discrimination Act (1984). The discussion explored the sexism that many believe contributed to Julia Gillard’s downfall in 2013, and more broadly, considered how the media frame women in public life. This signature event featured Professor Linda Trimble (University of Alberta, Canada), W/Prof Carmen Lawrence (University of Western Australia) and political journalist Christine Wallace as panellists, and was facilitated by Dr Fiona Jenkins (ANU Gender Institute convener). The event was filmed for broadcast on the ABC’s Big Ideas program and was aired on 18 October 2014. On 4 August 2014, Professor Linda Trimble also delivered a public lecture as a follow-up event, where she discussed Body politics: Media, gender and leadership in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. This event was supported by a Gender Institute grant. On the same day, Professor Trimble also delivered a masterclass for postgraduate students and early career researchers titled Researching Gender, Politics and the Media: Approaches and Methods. Framed panel event

Framed panellists: Carmen Lawrence, Linda Trimble, Fiona Jenkins and Christine Wallace

ANU Gender Institute Report 2013-2014 11 Signature Event Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women, in conversation with Virginia Hausegger

On 28 August 2014, ANU Gender Institute and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade presented Australia’s only opportunity to hear Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women, in conversation with Virginia Haussegger. The event was broadcast live via the Canberra Live website. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka is the United Nations Under- Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women. She was sworn into office on 19 August 2013 and brings a wealth Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka of expertise to this position, having devoted her career to issues of human rights, equality and social justice. Ms Mlambo- Ngcuka has worked in government and civil society, and with the private sector, and was actively involved in the struggle to end apartheid in her home country of South Africa. From 2005 to 2008, she served as Deputy President of South Africa, overseeing programmes to combat poverty and bring the advantages of a growing economy to the poor, with a particular focus on women. Starting operations in January 2011, UN Women’s mandate is to accelerate global promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women. Over many decades, the United Nations has made significant progress in advancing gender equality, yet gender inequalities remain deeply entrenched in every society. Virginia Hausegger Ms Mlambo-Ngcuka discussed what UN Women is doing in the lead up to the 20th Anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action and how they are working to ensure gender equality is embedded within the Post-2015 Development Framework. This event continued the close relationship the ANU Gender Institute has with UN Women. In 2012, AusAid approached the Gender Institute to co-host the only public lecture during the visit of Michelle Bachelet (first Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UN Women) to Australia.

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka in conversation with Virginia Hausegger

12 ANU Gender Institute Signature Event Voice and Agency Launch and Seminar

Voice and Agency: empowering women and girls for shared prosperity is a major report released in 2014 by the World Bank. The report shines a spotlight on the value of empowerment, the patterns of constraints that limit their realisation, and the associated costs, not only to individual women but to their families, communities, and societies. It highlights promising policies and interventions, and it identifies priority areas where further research and more and better data and evidence are needed. Jeni Klugman, Senior Adviser, The World Bank Group and Jeni Klugman Fellow, Kennedy School, Harvard University, presented the report’s main findings at a launch on 25 September 2014. Voice and Agency was then discussed by a panel comprising: >> Elizabeth Broderick, Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commission; >> Dame Carol Kidu, former Papua New Guinea Member of Parliament, Minister for Community Development, and advocate for women’s rights; and >> Ewen McDonald, Deputy Secretary, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The event was chaired by Fiona Jenkins, Convener of the ANU Gender Institute. Dame Carol Kidu This public seminar was presented by the Development Policy Centre at Crawford School of Public Policy and the Gender Institute. “...social norms act as powerful prescriptions for how men and women should behave.... The good news is that social norms can and do change.” Voice and Agency, ix. Ewen McDonald

Elizabeth Broderick Facilitator Fiona Jenkins with panellists Jeni Klugman, Dame Carol Kidu and Ewen McDonald.

ANU Gender Institute Report 2013-2014 13 Signature Event Sorcery and witchcraft-related killings in Melanesia: Culture, law and human rights perspectives conference

On 6 June 2013, Dame Carol Kidu (supported by the ANU Gender Institute) presented a public lecture titled 'Sorcery: A Reality Beyond Rational Logic', as part of the Sorcery and Witchcraft-related Killings in Melanesia: Culture, law and human rights perspectives conference, held from 5-7 June 2013 at ANU. Sorcery and witchcraft beliefs and practices exist in many communities throughout the world, and are particularly associated with social stress and dislocation. This conference focused on the Melanesian countries of Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu and brought together academics from varied backgrounds including law, anthropology, gender and human rights, as well as policy-makers, legal officers, human rights activists, members of church organisations and non-governmental organisations from the Pacific Islands region. Participants engaged in a constructive dialogue to develop practical and workable solutions to the negative societal issues posed by belief in sorcery and witchcraft, and particularly the problem of sorcery and witchcraft-related killings.

Dame Carol Kidu presenting ‘Sorcery: A reality beyond rational logic’.

Audience at Sorcery and witchcraft-related killings in Melanesia: Culture, law and human rights perspectives conference, 2013.

14 ANU Gender Institute VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

Throughout 2013 and 2014, a number One billion rising of seminars and events focused on the A key initiative within this stream of activities is the One Billion alarming continuation of violence against Rising events. On the 14 February 2013 and 2014, the ANU women across the world, such as in Gender Institute co-sponsored One Billion Rising forums with the ANU Human Resources Division Diversity and Workforce Vietnam and India. Planning Unit to support the One Billion Rising campaign, which aims to raise awareness of violence against women >> 29 Apr 2013 and girls. Violence affecting women and children in Vietnam in comparative perspective with other In 2014, the forum Violence against women: Solutions for ASEAN Countries the future, featured an esteemed panel, chaired by Margaret Public seminar, Huong Le Thu, Visiting Scholar at ANU Jolly, comprising Ms Mirjana Wilson, Executive Director of the College of Asia and the Pacific and formerly Visiting Scholar Domestic Violence Crisis Service; The Hon. Justice Richard at the ANU Centre for European Studies, National Chengchi Refshauge, Supreme Court ACT; Mr Rudi Lammers, University, Taiwan. ACT Chief Police Officer; and Ms Robyn Martin, Manager, Beryl Women Inc. >> 20 Mar 2013 Gang rape and the global: Sexual violence in India and beyond Panel presentations by Sally Engle Merry (New York University), Kalpana Ram (Macquarie University), Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, Anna Samson and Akshay Shanker (all of ANU), followed by public discussion. Chaired by Margaret Jolly. Followed by the launch of the recent book by Kalpana Ram, Fertile Disorder: Spirit Possession and its Provocation of the Modern (2013, University of Hawai’i Press). The Institute also partnered with YWCA Canberra on 17 Oct 2014 to co-sponsor the Relationship Things panel event to mark the International Week Without Violence and examine key issues surrounding sex education and young people. The event launched the YWCA’s Relationship Things resource which is a learning program that aims to prevent sexual assault and gender-based violence by equipping young people of high school age with the tools to develop and maintain safe and respectful relationships. The panellists were Fiona MacGregor, Director of Community Services, YWCA Canberra; Angela Christian-Wilkes, Year 12 student; Heidi Yates, Chair, ACT Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer (LGBTIQ) Ministerial Advisory Council; and Sergeant Joanne Cameron, Australian Federal Police.

One Billion Rising flyer, 2013

ANU Gender Institute Report 2013-2014 15 WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY AGENDA 2013-14

Annual Civil Society Dialogue

This project represents some of the Gender Institute’s key external partnerships involving collaboration with the Australian National Committee for UN Women (UN Women), the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID), the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) and ANU Gender Institute. The purpose of the Annual Dialogue is to ensure continued engagement with the Federal Government’s ‘Australian National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security 2012-2018’ (NAP) through the implementation process.

The NAP is an essential document for implementing United Nation Security Council Resolution 1325 and related resolutions on women, peace and security and was developed by the Australian Government in response to civil-society driven proposal and consultations by WILPF and UNIFEM (now the Australian National Committee for UN Women) in 2008-2012. The output from these dialogues is a Civil Society Report Card, which forms the basis of shadow reporting to parliament about the National Action Plan. Throughout 2013 and 2014 convener Dr Fiona Jenkins sat on the organising committee Senator Michaelia Cash, Minister assisting the Prime Minister for Women. along with UN Women executive director Julie Mackay, the National Co-ordinator (2009-2014) of WILPF Barbara O’Dwyer and other representatives of UN Women, WILPF and ACFID to plan the dialogue events and co-ordinate the preparation and publication of the report cards. The inaugural Dialogue, 'Women, peace and security 2013 Annual Civil Society Dialogue' was held at ANU on 15 April 2013 and was attended by government representatives, the Vice Chief of the Defence Force, Executive Director of the Australian Civil Military Centre, UN Head of Police Peacekeeping, Australian Federal Police, Director General of Australian Defence Force Theatre Project, Australian Global Ambassador for Women, Penny Williams, as well as representatives of development agencies, members of the international development NGO community, key academics, students, advocates and members of the public. Women, Peace and Security steering committee, 2013. Courtesy of WILPF. The Dialogue provided a forum to discuss progress against each of the five thematic areas included in the NAP: Prevention, Participation (both domestic and international), Protection, Relief and Recovery, and Normative. Each session involved speaker presentations followed by table discussions that produced recommendations and outcomes that were then incorporated into an invitation-only Workshop event held the following day, 16 April 2013. The Workshop was an intensive session for invited civil society representatives to address the strategies outlined in the NAP from a variety of perspectives.

16 ANU Gender Institute Publication of the Report Card on the ‘Australian National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security 2012-18’

The 2013 Annual Civil Society Report Card on Australia’s National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security was the combined outcome of the Dialogue and the Workshop. It was launched by Senator the Hon. Michaelia Cash at a reception and public forum hosted by the ANU Gender Institute on 16 October 2013: 'Australia and the implementation of United Nations Security Council resolutions on women, peace and security'. The 2014 Dialogue, 'Women, Peace and Security: 2014 Civil Society Dialogue & Reception', was held on 23 September 2014 after the Australian Government released its first report on the NAP. Speakers included: >> Senator Michaelia Cash, Minister assisting the Prime Minister for Women >> Chief of Defence, Air Chief Marshall Mark Binskin

>> Ewen McDonald (Dep Sec, DFAT)

The 2014 Dialogue and Reception was co-funded by the Australian Civil Military Council (ACMC) and the Office for Women, Department of PM&C. The Annual Civil Society Report

Card for 2014 generated out of this Dialogue is due to be Kate Lee Koo (School of Politics and International Relations) released in April, 2015. at 2014 Civil Society Dialogue

“Australia listens to and includes the voices of women in defence, peace and security initiatives.” Annual Civil Society Report Card on Australia’s National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security, August 2013.

Jacky Sutton (ANCUN Women), Jacquline Zambila, Tonni Brodber (UN Women), Archie Law (ActionAid), Safa Rahbar (Baha'i Community) at 2014 Civil Society Dialogue

ANU Gender Institute Report 2013-2014 17 Women, peace and security Other events events continued >> 15 Apr 2013 Linking women, peace and security in the Pacific: Thinking globally and acting locally Protection of women in conflict: Public lecture by Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls, Executive Director response to the London Global Summit of FemLINKPACIFIC. to End Sexual Violence in Conflict >> 16 Apr 2013 Australia on the Security Council: On 31 July 2014, The Centre for Military & Security Law Strategies to advance the women, peace and and the ANU Gender Institute were pleased to co-host a security agenda seminar ‘Protection of women in conflict: Chief of Army Seminar, Dr Susan Harris Rimmer, outlining five possible discusses the London Global Summit’ featuring Lieutenant diplomatic routes Australia could use to advance the General David Morrison AO, Chief of Army; Dr Susan Harris- Women, Peace and Security Agenda during its term on the Rimmer, Director of Studies at the ANU Asia- Pacific College of Security Council Diplomacy and Ms Veronica Fynn, a PhD scholar at the ANU >> 01 May 2013 Australia's female veterans from College of Law. Vietnam to Afghanistan Armed conflicts are currently occurring in various regions of Public lecture, Dr Samantha Crompvoets presented the world and the need to protect innocent victims of these findings from a three year in depth study into the health and conflicts has never been greater. Women are particularly wellbeing of Australia's female veterans. vulnerable in times of conflict and the recent Global Summit to >> 13 May 2014 Women, peace and security workshop End Sexual Violence in Conflict, co-chaired by William Hague Co-presented with Australian National Committee for UN (United Kingdom Foreign Secretary) and Angelina Jolie (Special Women participants included; students, the general public, Envoy for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees) brought government, military and NGO representatives. together 1,700 delegates and 129 country delegations to consider ways in which women could be better protected. The >> 06 Nov 2013 Women, Peace and Security in Summit agreed on practical steps to tackle impunity for the the Asia-Pacific use of rape as a weapon of war, and to begin to change global Co-presented with the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy: attitudes to these crimes. public lecture, by Indonesian expert Kamala Chandrakirana which addressed the theme of women, peace and Dr Susan Harris-Rimmer provided introductory comments security in the Asia and Pacific, and the roles the United on the legal framework that exists to protect women who are Nations, as well as the international community can play affected by armed conflict and also discussed aspects of her to ensure strong roles of women in conflict resolution and role as an expert for the official Australian delegation to the 58th peace building. session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New >> 11 Nov 2013 Looking back on RAMSI: mainstreaming York in March 2014. women, peace and security into Australian foreign Ms Veronica Fynn spoke about her personal experience in policy and practice overcoming the challenges, difficulties and dangers she has Presented in partnership with The Women’s International endured since she fled the civil war in Liberia in 1992. League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). At the wind-up of the Australian Regional Assistance Mission in Solomon Lieutenant General David Morrison AO spoke about his Islands (RAMSI) and the advent of the new Australian recent experience in London at the Global Summit to End National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security, this Sexual Violence in Conflict, and commented on initiatives event drew together a panel with personal experience that he is leading to ensure that members of the Australian and expertise in RAMSI programs to discuss whether Army abide by their obligations to treat women appropriately in Australia’s stated commitment to UNSCR 1325 translated all circumstances. into meaningful action on the ground. Panellists included: Dr. Jasmine-Kim Westendorf (a lecturer in International Relations at La Trobe University) and Sue Ingram who has a long career in public policy, peace-building and international development, including as a senior executive in Australian Government including AusAID. >> 05 Aug 2014 CSW 59 Collaborative Forum CSW59 preparation meeting hosted by Australian National Committee for UN Women. >> 27 Nov 2014 Conversation with Olivera Simi about her new book Surviving Peace: A Political Memoir, Olivera Simi, Griffith Law School; Susan Harris Rimmer, ANU Dr David Letts (ANU College of Law), Dr Susan Harris-Rimmer (ANU College of Asia Presented by Asia- Pacific College of Diplomacy and the and the Pacific), Lt. Gen. David Morrison AO and Dr Fiona Jenkins (Convener, ANU Gender Institute) at the ‘Protection of women in conflict’ seminar, 2014. State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program.

18 ANU Gender Institute FEMINIST THEORY AND PRACTICE

A major aim of the ANU Gender Institute Featured speakers is to promote and develop feminist scholarship across all fields.

Convener's Public Lecture Series 2014: Feminist Theory Now

Feminist theory today is a transforming landscape of ideas. Ongoing challenges to mainstream thinking, major contributions to disciplines, and contested questions over what feminism itself means all make this a vibrant field. Professor Lisa Adkins In this public lecture series we invited leading feminist theorists to discuss their recent work.

12 March Professor Anne Phillips, Professor of Political and Gender Theory in the London School of Economics Gender Institute; ‘Our bodies whose property?’. 5 May Professor Alison Wylie, Professor of Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Washington (Seattle); ‘Standpoint theory and Dr Susan Harris Rimmer the formation of gender archaeology’. 3 June Professor Lisa Adkins, BHP Billiton Chair of Sociology, University of Newcastle; ‘What do wages do? Feminist theory in austere times’. 22 July Dr Susan Harris Rimmer, Director of Studies at the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy at the Australian National University and Research Associate at the Development Policy Centre in the Crawford School (ANU), ‘Feminist ripostes to the Professor Lisa Adkins responsibility to protect doctrine’. 19 August Dr Ronli Sifris, Faculty of Law, Monash University and Associate of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, in conversation with Professor Kim Rubenstein, Director of the Centre for International and Public Law, College of Law ANU; ‘Reproductive Freedom, Torture and International Human Rights: Challenging the Masculinisation of Torture’. 24 September Associate Professor Maryanne Dever,

School of Humanities and Social Science, Professor Alison Wylie University of Newcastle and recipient of the 2014 ANU Gender Institute, Humanities Research Center Visiting Fellowship; ‘Feminism's archive.’ 16 October Professor Robyn Wiegman, Professor of Literature and Women’s Studies at Duke University; ‘Queer theory’s queer sex’. *This was a co-presentation with Queer Objects: a symposium

Podcasts of all lectures are available on the Gender Institute website at genderinstitute.anu.edu.au/gi-public-lecture-series-2014 Dr Ronli Sifris

ANU Gender Institute Report 2013-2014 19 PROMOTING FEMINIST SCHOLARSHIP

A special issue of Australian Feminist ‘A Celebration of Professor Jill Julius Studies June 2014 (vol. 29, no. 80) Matthews' Career - Reflections was launched in September 2014 at a on Professor Matthews' Teaching, roundtable discussion on the future of this Scholarship and Academic Leadership: leading Australian journal. From Women’s Studies to the Gender Institute (1984-2011)’ was also held on 20 At the ‘Future of Australian Feminist Studies’ Roundtable incoming editors Lisa Adkins and Maryanne Dever discussed November 2014. their vision for the journal. The Gender Institute supported an event coordinated by The special issue ‘Gendered Excellence in the Social Sciences’ the ANU School of History which linked a celebration of the arose from a grant awarded in 2011 to Fiona Jenkins to run career of Professor Jill Julius Matthews, one of the founders a workshop: ‘Gender and Feminism in the Social Sciences: of women’s studies at ANU, to the teaching, research, public Equity, Excellence and Knowledge in the Disciplines’. It features outreach, and gender equity objectives of the Institute. articles from a number of Gender Institute members, including Fiona Jenkins, Helen Keane, Marian Sawer, Dorothy Broom and Response to the day among the academics and former Ann McGrath. students was enthusiastic, and it underlined the importance of recognizing the lasting legacy left by an independent An ARC funded Discovery Project of the same title was women’s studies department, with the Gender Institute now awarded $397, 514 over 3 years. The research team comprises a significant supporter of an expanded research and teaching Dr Fiona Jenkins, Dr Helen Keane and Em. Professor Marian agenda at ANU. Sawer of ANU in collaboration with Dr Claire Donovan, Brunel. The project summary states: “Gender equity has still not been realised, despite decades of activism, policy and research. In some of the social sciences, women make up less than 15 per cent of the professoriate. Yet these are the disciplines that should most aid our understanding of how gender works in society. The project asks what impact women's limited influence and status in these key fields of research has upon our capacity to grapple with the social and political changes necessary for progress toward gender equality. In doing so, it builds persuasive arguments about how and why gender matters in the social sciences. By examining how we judge excellence in social science research, the project aims to contribute to advancing women in all fields.”

Honours students in the ANU Women's Studies Program 1991, Photography by Judith Ion. Displayed at the Jill Matthews celebration event, 2014.

Helen Keane presenting at the Jill Matthews celebration 2014.

20 ANU Gender Institute TRANSNATIONAL FEMINISMS

A number of events throughout 2013 and 2014 explored this paper developed new indicators to assess the the experiences and campaigns of women across diverse gender awareness of a range of methods of highly skilled international contexts, including Sri Lanka, Egypt, South immigration selection including points tested models and Asia, France, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Gender employer-selection models across 12 countries and 39 in politics, employment, immigration, education, selfhood, visa classes. childhood, media, language and leadership were some of the >> 13 Nov 2013 themes presented by distinguished international and Australian Women, politics and the law in Sri Lanka: A scholars, lawyers, and authors. discussion with Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena >> 17 Jul 2013 Co-presented with the Department of Political & Social Erotics, media, and sociality in transnational Asia Change CAP, ANU. An informal discussion with Kishali Public lecture by Purnima Mankekar, Associate Professor Pinto-Jayawardena, a Sri Lankan lawyer, journalist and in Gender Studies and Asian American Studies at the human rights defender who has researched extensively on University of California (UCLA) and Senior Research Fellow issues of gender discriminatory laws, good governance and at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of the participation of women in the island’s politics, on current Singapore in 2013 drawing on collaborative research on legal and political issues for Sri Lankan women. intersections of transnational media, erotics, and identity >> 06 Dec 2013 within Asia and across Asian diasporas. Encountering legal imaginaries of harm: Towards an >> 17 Jul 2013 ethico-critical practice The topography of the female self in Indian Public lecture, Dr Honni van Rijswijk therapeutic cults >> 08 Oct 2014 Public lecture, Marine Carrin, anthropologist, Director of Public lecture: Women and Politics in France Research (CNRS) at the Centre d’Anthropologie Sociale, Professor Armelle Le Bras-Chopard, University of Versailles. Toulouse, examining issues of the female self, language and performance in therapeutic cults in India. >> 18 Jul 2013 Childhoods in South Asia: Contemporary and historical perspectives This conference provided an interdisciplinary platform for scholars and NGO representatives who work in the areas of childhood and education in South Asia. >> 12 Aug 2013 The 'female Rushdie': Fallen prose of a fallen woman Public lecture by award-winning author Hanifa Deen exploring the domestic and international responses to dissident Bangladeshi writer-in-exile, Taslima Nasreen. >> 14 Oct 2013 The long revolution in Egypt: women, gender, and creative activisms Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena Public lecture, Professor Margot Badran, Senior Fellow, The Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University and Senior Scholar, The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. This talk centred on the continuing 2011 Egyptian Revolution (al-thawra al- musatmira) as a new generation of women and men engage in forms of creative activism displaying at once tenacious militant activisms and stunning aesthetic politics. >> 15 Oct 2013 Gendering high skilled immigration selection across Public lecture: ‘The long revolution in Egypt’ the OECD Professor Margot Badran, 2013 Co-presented with the Research School of Social Sciences, ANU. A Research Seminar by Dr Anna Boucher, University of Sydney (Department of Government and International Relations), Visiting Scholar, Research School, ANU. Drawing upon feminist economics, industrial relations and sociology,

ANU Gender Institute Report 2013-2014 21 SHOWCASING WOMEN’S ACHIEVEMENTS

Women’s colonial and migrant experiences Australian Inspiring Women in Australia and New Zealand were public lectures highlighted in events supported by the During September and October 2013, the Australian ANU Gender Institute in 2013. Inspiring Women public lecture series celebrated the achievements of three outstanding Australian women: Lilith Conference: Women without men Professor Fiona Wood, Matilda House-Williams and Geraldine Cox. The inaugural conference, ‘Women Without Men: Spinsters, This popular series was organised by Kathryn Spurling widows and deserted wives in the nineteenth century and and supported by an ANU Gender Institute grant. beyond’, of the relaunched Lilith: A Feminist History Journal was held on Friday 10 May 2013. >> 25 Sep 2013 Geraldine Cox ‘Wealth of a different kind’: Sunrise Nineteenth-century colonial Australia and New Zealand are Children’s Villages, Cambodia commonly viewed as a man’s world, just as colonialism and Geraldine’s presentation “Wealth of a Different Kind” the imperial project have been frequently gendered male. While centred on how her life changed from one of materialism women have been added to our picture of the colonial world and hedonism, before discovering children in desperate in recent years it has been as adjuncts to male enterprise, as need in the jungles of Cambodia in 1994 and, the ‘colonial helpmeets’. They have been granted roles as civilising joys that await those who dare to move out of their agents of empire and as domestic wives and mothers. But not comfort zone. all women married. >> 21 Oct 2013 This conference sought to place these ‘women without Matilda House-Williams: Ngambri, Ngunnawal, men’ at the centre. It explored themes of financial and social Wiradjuri elder independence that women in the nineteenth and into the Q&A with Matilda House-Williams, Ngambri, Ngunnawal, twentieth century chose for themselves, or had thrust upon Wiradjuri elder: ‘I’m a tough little bugger, I always have them by circumstances. been ... and a very proud Aboriginal woman’. The keynote speaker was Professor Carolyn Steedman, >> 30 Oct 2013 University of Warwick. In mind, body and spirit Burns surgeon and researcher Professor Fiona Wood Workshop: The power of gender explored her personal and professional quest to deliver and ethnic boundaries scarless healing to all burn injury survivors.

On 19 April 2013, a research workshop, ‘The power of gender and ethnic boundaries: Examining the representation of women’s experiences of Australia in migrant narratives’, explored the gendered dimension to migration through challenging disciplinary boundaries of research. Dr Katarzyna Williams (Assistant professor at the International Studies Faculty, University of Lodz, Poland and the Visiting Fellow at the ANU Centre for European Studies, and Monash European and EU Centre) presented this workshop with the support of the ANU Gender Institute and ANU Centre for European Studies. The workshop included individual presentations, group discussions, and planning for the Matilda House-Williams production of an edited book. The collection of essays following the workshop was published in a special issue of Life Writing 11/4 (2014). It includes an Introduction by Katarzyna Kwapisz Williams, articles by Nina Fischer, Mary Besemeres, Sonia Mycak, Katarzyna Kwapisz Williams, Paul Longley Arthur, Ann Tündern-Smith and reviews by Alexandra Dellios and Andrzej Jaroszynski.

Geraldine Cox

22 ANU Gender Institute WOMEN IN ACADEMIA

A major focus of 2013-14 for the Gender The series also included two associated workshops, one co-presented with CHELT on providing training in resilience for Institute has been women in academia. A women research students and early career academics number of events and activities funded by and another delivered by visiting scholar Professor Maureen Gender Institute grants explored gender Baker based around her new book Academic Careers and the Gender Gap. equity and women’s experiences within Maureen Baker’s lecture was attended by about 50 academics academic professions. including current and former pro-vice chancellors at ANU and other universities, people representing diverse disciplines within Convener's Seminar Series 2013: the ANU, post-graduate students, early career researchers Women in Academia and more senior researchers, as well as public servants, and undergraduate students from the School of Sociology. In 2013, The Gender Institute teamed up with grant recipient Dr Podcasts of the seminars are available on the Gender Institute Joanna Sikora to invite everyone interested in women's career website and a video recording of the seminar presented by progression to join a seminar series devoted to these topics. Professor Maureen Baker is available on the ANU YouTube The series brought together researchers on the gender gap Channel and has been used in undergraduate sociology course in academic career progression, equitable promotion policies, SOCY2021, Education and Society, in its module on gender implicit bias, and structural disadvantage in the workplace. inequality in education.

3 June Dr Fiona Jenkins, School of Philosophy, ‘Women in Philosophy: what needs to change?’ 23 August Dr Beth Beckmann (CHELT ANU) and A/Prof Maryanne Dever, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle, ‘Gender, early career formation and the changes we haven't seen’ 2 September Professor Maureen Baker, Professor of Sociology at the University of Auckland, ‘Academic careers and the gender gap: Women in academia workshop’ Dr Alison Shaw and Dr Daniel Stanton, ‘Leaks in the pipeline’ seminar 8 October Dr Dirk Van Rooy, Research School of Psychology, ‘An in-depth analysis of organizational identification of female ECR Questions of women’s status in academia were also academics at the ANU’ addressed in these forums: 4 November Dr. Alison Shaw and Dr Daniel Stanton, >> 02 May 2013 Research School of Biology, ‘Leaks in Roundtable and Discussion: Women in science the pipeline: separating demographic How to improve the scoring system of women’s track inertia from ongoing gender differences record “relative to opportunity” – convened by Professor in academia’ Carola Vinuesa, a member of the recently created NHMRC Working Committee, an NHMRC Elizabeth Blackburn Fellow. >> 12 Dec 2013 On the relative status of women in academic economics Public lecture, Karen Mumford, Professor of Economics at the University of York, pre sented by the Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU. >> 05 May 2014 Women in philosophy: what needs to change? Book launch of volume edited by Dr Katrina Hutchinson and Dr Fiona Jenkins. Launched by Professor Alison Wylie (University of Washington).

ANU Gender Institute Report 2013-2014 23 PRACTICAL SUPPORT FOR WOMEN IN ACADEMIA

The Gender Institute convener joined the Vice-Chancellor’s new Gender Oversight Committee (commencing December 2014); sat on the ANU Diversity and Equity committee; attended the EU Gender Summit (Brussels, July 2014); convened meetings of staff with gender equity initiatives across campus; and provided advice to Executive and Staff on issues to do with Gender Equity at ANU. A welcome source of international collaboration and benchmarking has been a project on gender equity conducted by the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU) in which Dr Fiona Jenkins has participated since 2013. Other equity initiatives: Academic Women’s Writing >> 09 May 2013 From rights to reality: Protecting breastfeeding in Workshop (AWWW) workplaces and childcare This forum discussed new research on best practice support for breastfeeding in workplaces and childcare “The most valuable professional settings, including the effects of time stress on health. development I have encountered at Supported by an ANU Gender Institute grant and presented by the Australian Centre for Economic Research on ANU has been through the AWWW. Health (ACERH), the forum focused on how women’s and The workshops themselves have children’s human rights translate into policies and practices provided me with outstanding on breastfeeding support in Australia’s workplaces and childcare, including at the ANU. professional enhancement and >> 15 Nov 2013 encouragement for publication.” Not yet 50/50: Barriers to the progress of senior Feedback from an AWWW participant women in the Australian Public Service (anonymous online survey, 2014) This report was presented by the ANZSOG Institute for Governance was presented and discussed in a valuable seminar and panel discussion, hosted by the ANU Gender The highly successful and popular AWWW has been presented Institute. Presenters were: Mark Evans, Director of annually at ANU in different formats since 2006, and is the ANZSOG Institute for Governance and a specialist supported by the ANU Gender Institute and the ANU Centre in institution-building and governance; Deborah May, for Higher Education, Learning and Teaching. The workshops Fulbright Scholar, graduating from the only business school provide an evidence-based, structured and supportive in the world specifically designed for women, Simmons approach to intensive research writing for academic women Graduate School of Management, Boston, Massachusetts, at ANU. USA; and Meredith Edwards, Emeritus Professor at the The AWWW is open to all women academics across the seven University of Canberra and member of ANZSOG Institute colleges at ANU with priority given to early career academics for Governance. and/or academics with heavy teaching loads that impact on research writing time. The annual workshops are supported with funding from each of “The quest for gender equality in the the ANU Colleges as well as the Gender Institute. workplace is an ongoing struggle in Equity research and initiatives a ‘Good Society’.” Not yet 50/50: Barriers to the Progress of Senior Women in the The Gender Institute has supported several research projects Australian Public Service. into equity issues at ANU, enabling work with an immediate practical focus in areas including Astronomy and Astrophysics and Earth Sciences. Psychology researcher Dr Dirk van Rooy explored the attitudes and aspirations of female Early Career Researchers at the ANU, while a project led by Dr Inger Mewburn examined gender matters in research training.

24 ANU Gender Institute Report on gender access and equity The workshop featured Nobel Prize winner Professor Brian Schmidt and Elizabeth Broderick (Australian Human Rights at ANU RSAA Sex Discrimination Commissioner), and was opened by Senator the Hon. Michaelia Cash (Minister Assisting the Prime The recently released Research School of Astronomy and Minister for Women). Speakers at the workshop came from Astrophysics Access and Equity Committee (RAEC) report ANU, Swinburne University, CSIRO, University of Queensland, presents research on gender equity in science institutions, University of Western Australia, McDonagh Design, and the a review of existing ANU policies and recommendations for Australian Research Council. improving gender equity. Prof. Matthew Colless (Director of the Research School of The RAEC was formed in March 2013, following the release Astronomy and Astrophysics, ANU) led a session called “Top of the Australian Academy of Science Early and Mid-Career 5 Things to Change in the Australian Astronomy Community”, Researcher (EMCR) Forum position paper on “Gender Equity: including surrounding inclusion, awareness, leadership, Current Issues, Best Practice and New Ideas”. flexibility, mentoring and training. In order to better understand and address gender equity issues See the website: at RSAA, RAEC applied for a Gender Institute grant to employ mso.anu.edu.au/wia-workshop-2014 for further details. two science students to generate a report on gender equity in consultation with RAEC members. Over a period of 4 months, PhD students Shaheen Iqbal (RSAA) and Timothy Jones (RSES) performed extensive background research on gender equity in science institutions in Australia and abroad, and reviewed existing ANU policies. In consultation with Céline d’Orgeville, chair of RAEC, they formed recommendations for the RSAA Director on ways to improve gender equity at the school. Shaheen and Tim presented the results of their research and preliminary recommendations on 14 February 2014 during a one-hour seminar at Mount Stromlo Observatory, sponsored by RSAA and the ANU Gender Institute. A recording of this presentation, together with the presentation slides, is available on our website. Women in Astronomy Workshop We are all made of stars: establishing equity and diversity within Australian astronomy

The 2014 Women in Astronomy Workshop was held by the Women in Astronomy chapter of the Astronomical Society of Australia at the Australian National University on the 28th and 29th of August 2014. It was a great success, with more than 160 participants and 18 speakers present, and representation at the highest levels from most of the national astronomy departments. The event was partially supported by a grant from the Gender Institute. Women in Astronomy Workshop The workshop, ‘We are all made of stars: establishing equity and diversity within Australian astronomy’, had four key goals, to: >> Understand why diversity matters and requires your and everybody else’s support; >> Recognise unconscious biases, confront bullying, sexual harassment, and other discriminations; >> Experience tricky situations and challenge your mind; >> Engage with the community, become a champion of diversity, and bring about positive change!

Women in Astronomy Workshop

ANU Gender Institute Report 2013-2014 25 SUPPORTING GRADUATE STUDENTS AND EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS

The ANU Gender Institute has a strong focus on engaging highlighted ideas that could help women, such as allocating students and early career researchers through gender equity technical support for two years to women going on maternity initiatives and research workshops. We have run and leave. Helen Irving and Sudha Rao confirmed that both promoted many graduate workshops, masterclasses, seminars, NHMRC and ARC committees take career disruption such film screenings and other projects for the benefit, enrichment as maternity leave in serious consideration while reviewing and support of Higher Degree by Research (HDR) students grant applications. Adele Holloway and Martha Ludwig told and early career researchers (ECR). We have also promoted attendees that, more than mentors, they need champions or the fantastic projects of the ANU Circle for Gender Equity advocates, people who will make them aware of opportunities student society. and push them forward because women tend to wait too long before asking for promotion. All panellists strongly agreed that Combio2014 Women in Science Dinner things are starting to change but also that broader changes are required and that a career in science is very challenging, For the first time, a Women in Science dinner & particularly as a female. discussion forum took place on the 28th of September 2014 at Teatro Vivaldi on ANU Campus. Feedback from the event was extremely positive with 94% of attendees advising they would attend such an event again. This event, held in conjunction with ComBio2014, was to provide an opportunity for students and early career Enhancing Gender in Research and scientists to network with more senior female researchers Writing: Workshop for Graduate Students in an atmosphere of sharing, cooperation and support. The event was organized & facilitated by Dr Anne-Sophie Dielen, Gender is sometimes an under-developed component of assisted by Drs Britta Forster and Elena Martin-Avila. The three graduate students’ research topics. This workshop, held in hour discussion and social gathering was attended by 70 August 2013, was designed for students who would like to (predominantly) female scientists and students. enhance the gender aspects of their research and writing by discussing their work with ‘gender experts’ and with other The event was sponsored by the ARC Centre of Excellence for students. The experts who generously provided their time and Translational Photosynthesis, the University of Canberra, the advice were: Professors Dorothy Broom, Kathryn Robinson Australian Society of Plant Scientists, the ANU Gender Institute, and Terry Hull, and Drs Helen Keane, Kathy Lepani, Iwu Utomo, the Centre of Excellence for Plant Energy Biology, the Australian Christine Phillips, and Fiona Jenkins. Two attendees from the Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Nectar Office for the Status of Women participated in discussion and a (ANU’s Early Career Scientists and Academics association). female envoy from the Pacific who was sponsored by Australian A highlight of the evening was the discussion forum comprised Parliament House presented a paper on promoting women’s of six female scientists from all over Australia. participation in politics in the Pacific. Eighteen students The panellists were: (including one male) attended the workshop. The experts offered guidance to the students regarding >> Dr Margaret Barbour (University of Sydney), key texts, the use of gendered language, approaches and >> Dr Rachel Burton (University of Adelaide), methodology. Important linkages were formed across the Colleges at ANU and the workshop provided outreach on >> Dr Adele Holloway (University of Tasmania). gender issues beyond the university. The workshop was >> Dr Helen Irving (Monash University), supported by an ANU Gender Institute grant and facilitated by Cathy Banwell, Graduate Convener, Research School of >> Dr Martha Ludwig (University of Western Australia), Population Health ANU College of Medicine Biology >> Dr Sudha Rao (University of Canberra) and Environment. The panellists agreed unanimously that balancing the workload of an early/middle career in science with family life had been difficult, especially without extended family around. Several solutions were brought forward. For example, initiatives such as the Athena Swan charter were discussed. Rachel Burton

“Seldom do you participate in a workshop charged with a bunch of exuberant, passionate and intelligent peers with professors and experts purposely assigned to provide critical feedback of your working thesis. For me, it was not just a workshop, it was a rare opportunity at ANU to sharpen the focus of my topic for the better.” Veronica Fynn PhD scholar at the ANU College of Law

26 ANU Gender Institute Other HDR and ECR workshops include: Gender matters in research training

>> 20 March 2013 In 2013, the Gender Institute and the Research Training unit at ‘Vernacularisation’ masterclass The Australian National University supported a scoping study Workshop for HDR students with Adjunct Professor Sally led by Dr Inger Mewburn that aimed to inform future research Engle Merry of New York University. Professor Merry has and engagement on patterns of participation and completion pioneered the study of the way global concepts, such in doctoral degrees at the ANU, and in the Australian higher as human rights, have been translated in different local education sector more broadly. contexts, and how the concepts change as a result. The project entailed benchmarking enrolment measures for She has used the term vernacularisation to describe this attrition and degree completion by gender across associated process, and studied the work of 'knowledge brokers', such candidate characteristics, including international and domestic as local activists and NGOs, who deploy global languages. enrolment status. The methodology developed for this This masterclass was sponsored by Hilary Charlesworth’s project informed the paper 'Profiling the New Normal: A and Margaret Jolly’s ARC Laureate Fellowships. perspective from narrative and from enrolment metrics' >> 15 May 2013 presented at the biennial Quality in Postgraduate Research Theorising gender, race and nation (QPR) conference in Adelaide April 2014. Masterclass for Postgraduate students and ECRs with The findings of this study were presented in a seminar by Professor Jill Vickers. doctoral candidate Nigel Palmer in November 2014. The >> 16 Jul 2013 seminar, titled ‘Attrition and Completion in Doctoral Feminisms, transnationalism and the media Education: A Wicked Problem?’, examined time to completion Masterclass for PhD students and ECRs with Purnima and completion rates for international and domestic doctoral Mankekar, Associate Professor in Gender Studies and Asian candidates by gender, and explored opportunities for American Studies at the University of California developing better strategies for engaging and supporting in Los Angeles. candidates through to the successful completion of their degree. >> 06 Nov 2013 Workshop for early career researchers: women, peace The seminar was well attended, with the audience featuring and security in the Asia Pacific many of Australia’s higher education policy experts in the Lead by Indonesian expert Kamala Chandrakirana, UN area of research training. Guests included representatives Human Rights Council’s Special Procedures Mechanism, to from the ANU, University of Canberra, Group of Eight support PhD and Masters students and ECR researchers universities and policy experts from various departments of at the ANU working on topics related to women, peace and the Australian Government. security in Asia and Pacific countries. >> 04 Dec 2013 The Politics and Aesthetics of Academic Writing Workshop for HDR students and ECRs, facilitated by Dr Honni van Rijswijk, Senior Lecturer UTS.

ANU Gender Institute Report 2013-2014 27 UNDERGRADUATE FOCUS

Signature Event International Day of the Girl Child ‘Let’s Get Loud!’: Gender, Politics, ACTION On 10 October 2013, the eve of International Day of the Girl Child, the Gender Institute and YWCA Canberra presented ‘I The ‘Let’s Get Loud!: Gender, Politics, ACTION' conference am a girl: film screening and panel’ – a sold out event. presented by the ANU Gender Institute in partnership with Vocal Majority (VM) was held on 22 April 2014. Keynote speakers were Anne “There is a group of people Summers AO and Professor Hilary Charlesworth, and the conference in the world today who included the opportunity to are more persecuted than attend campaign workshops with Clementine Ford and Anna Rose. anyone else, but they are not The day provided an opportunity political or religious activists. for students, academics, NGOs They are girls. Being born and other members of the community to come together a girl means you are more on the issue of women’s rights. Anne Summers AO VM founders Melanie Poole and likely to be subjected to Courtney Sloane introduced the day, emphasising the power violence, disease, poverty and of young people’s voices in the debate on women’s rights and calling the audience to collective action. disadvantage than any other Presenters explored topics including ‘Global Injustice and its group on the planet.” Gendered Face’, women’s rights within international law and I am a girl: the concept the potential of gender studies in the academy for achieving (www.iamagirl.com.au) change. Hannah McCann, attendee and inaugural recipient of the ANU Gender Institute PhD Scholarship, remarked that the day was inspirational for the upcoming generation of activists I Am a Girl, a feature length documentary, reveals what it but that gaps in the conversation concerning diversity were means to grow up female in the 21st century. As a day on still apparent. earth transpires from dawn to dusk and into the night, we meet Manu, Kimsey, Aziza, Habiba, Breani and Katie – each on the brink of womanhood and dealing with the realities of what it means to grow up female in their world today. As they come of age in the way their culture dictates, we see remarkable heart- warming stories of resilience, bravery and humour. The film takes the audience through a pastiche of diverse cultures and societies around the globe including Cambodia, Papua New Guinea, Cameroon, Afghanistan, India, USA and Australia. The panel speakers included: >> Rebecca Barry, Filmmaker of I Am a girl >> Hannah McCann, PhD candidate, School of Sociology, and inaugural recipient of the ANU Gender Institute PhD Scholarship >> Gillian Ophel and Aayushi Talwar, Year 12 students from Narrabundah College.

I am a girl poster

28 ANU Gender Institute ANU Circle for Gender Equity

The ANU Circle for Gender Equity (ANU CGE) is a student society promoting critical discussion and awareness regarding gender in different cultural contexts.

The launch of ANU CGE took place on 11 October 2013, the International Day of the Girl. With support from the Gender Institute and One Girl, ANU CGE presented a film screening of ‘Girl Rising: Educate girls. Change the World’ and a panel discussion featuring Dr Victoria Mason (Politics and International Relations, ANU) and Dr Fiona Jenkins (Philosophy, ANU and Convener, ANU Gender ANU students dressed in girls’ school uniforms to mark Institute). International Day of the Girl. 2014 has seen ANU Circle for Gender Equity develop from a mere idea into a well-respected student organisation. The Executive Committee have been encouraged to see the growing momentum of the society. Attendance at events and membership has consistently increased throughout the year, testament to the hard work of all members of the committee, as well as wider community support. Financial support from the Gender Institute allowed ANU CGE to focus their attention on producing high-quality events, and advertising these to a wide audience. ANU CGE is also thankful for the presence of the Gender Institute as a source of guidance and motivation. The ANU Gender Institute provided grants for ANU Circle for gender Equity to run panel discussions on: Outgoing executive committee: Linda Ma, >> 04 March 2014 Culture, Gender Rights and Development Shoshana Booth, Claudia Hill >> 04 Aug 2014 Beyond the Gender Binary >> 27 Aug 2014 Gender, Conflict and Peace >> 30 Sep 2014 Unmasking Masculinity >> 08 Oct 2014 Women in the Middle East Other events supporting young women: >> 13 Aug 2014 #yesallwomen: gender and technology in society Presented by the ANU Society for Arts & Social Sciences, this facilitated discussion concerning both sides of the #yesallwomen phenomenon and its implications.

>> 21 Aug 2014 Incoming executive committee: Jessica Avalon, Sex and Consent: From the personal to the political Anahita, Sophie Yates. Presented by the ANU Women’s Department and Diversity Learning Community. >> 22 Sep 2014 Beijing +20 Caravan for young women Hosted by The Equality Rights Alliance and the ANU Women's Department.

ANU CGE Panel event: Culture, Gender Rights and Development, 4 March 2014.

ANU Gender Institute Report 2013-2014 29 OUTREACH

ABC Radio National - Big Ideas: Of Susan Harris Rimmer has written a number of articles Meritocracy’s Un-meritorious Outcomes including: with Dr Fiona Jenkins >> ‘Why Joe Hockey and the G20 need women onside’, The Conversation, 3 November 2014 On 12 September 2013, Dr Fiona Jenkins, philosopher and >> ‘Julie Bishop needs the company of other women in ANU Gender Institute Convener was an invited guest speaker Cabinet’, Canberra Times, 2 December 2014 at the prestigious Cranlana Programme Alumni Speaker Series. The Cranlana Programme is an independent organisation with a >> ‘Time to act: can the world prevent sexual violence in armed broad objective to cultivate wisdom in leadership. The talk was conflict?’, The Conversation,11 June 2014 recorded for the ABC Radio National Big Ideas program. >> ‘Time for the G20 to invest in gender equality’, The Abstract: There seems to be an obvious puzzle about the Conversation, 4 March 2014. supposedly meritocratic systems governing appointments >> ‘Efforts to stop violence against women must focus on to senior positions in many areas of public life: if merit is the social, cultural norms’, East Asia Forum, 27 October 2013, sole cause of achievement, why is it that the preponderance http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2013/10/27/efforts-to-stop- of talent and hard work is to be found among a small class violence-against-women-must-focus-on-social-cultural- of white males? Faced with such a puzzle, do we continue norms/ to believe in the system of meritocracy or do we conversely find an element of laughable exaggeration in meritocratic >> ‘The distortion of Abbott's 'women problem’, Public Sector claims? I will argue here that some cheering, satirical and Informant, Canberra Times, 1 October 2013, http://www. system-undermining laughter is much called for in view of the smh.com.au/national/public-service/the-distortion-of- depressing circumstances in which women so often continue abbotts-women-problem-20130929-2um0b.html to find themselves today, and against the backdrop of the >> ‘Bishop joins ranks of the few’, Canberra Times, 30 common assumption that gender equality has already September 2013, http://www.canberratimes.com.au/ been achieved. comment/bishop-joins-ranks-of-the-few-20130919-2u2c5. html#ixzz2hrKiAtOy Members in the media >> ‘Rising up in support of women’, Canberra Times, 14 Our members make regular contributions to the media on February 2013, http://www.canberratimes.com.au/ gender topics. Examples include: comment/rising-up-in-support-of-women-20130213-2ed6k. html#ixzz2hrKz5mk2. Merrindahl Andrew, 'Governments across Australia targeting women's services', ACTCOSS Update (2014) Issue 67, Kim Rubenstein, former convener of the Gender Institute, Autumn, pp. 7-8. (Re-published by the Gender Institute ‘Rethink needed as new High Court Justice appointment at genderinstitute.anu.edu.au/news/governments-across- seems to maintain gender imbalance’, Canberra Times, australia-targeting-womens-services). 12 December 2014. Tamara Kayali Browne’s research on premenstrual dysphoric disorder was discussed in Natasha Boddy’s article ‘“Sexist” labelling of premenstrual distress criticised’, Canberra Times, 12 September 2014. The article was republished in the Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and Brisbane Times. Fiona Jenkins, current ANU Gender Institute convener, ‘Media focus on ‘gender wars’ debases debate’, Canberra Times, 21 June 2013. ANU PhD candidate and collaborator on the Civil Dialogues, Susan Hutchinson, published ‘Our forgotten allies against Islamic State: Iraqi and Syrian women’ in The Conversation, 31 October 2014: https://theconversation.com/our-forgotten- allies-against-islamic-state-iraqi-and-syrian-women-32164. This piece was also featured on Sky News: http://www.skynews. com.au/news/world/mideast/2014/11/06/sexual-assault-used- as-weapon-of-war.html.

30 ANU Gender Institute CONSULTANCY

Falling through the Net? Gender and Social Office for Women ‘Women in the Public Protection in the Pacific Service Project’ options paper

Discussion paper for UN Women, October 2014 Australia has partnered with the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars (Wilson Center) to establish an Australian By Margaret Jolly, Helen Lee, Katherine Lepani, Anna Naupa Chapter of the Women in Public Service Project (WPSP). and Michelle Rooney The WPSP is a global initiative aimed at improving the Pacific women are hardworking, creative, resourceful and representation of women in public service. resilient agents. Yet their predominant portrayal is one of vulnerable victimhood distinguished by limited opportunities for In late 2014, the ANU Gender Institute prepared an options empowerment and intractable gender inequality and gender paper to advise the Australian Government Office for Women violence. This discussion of gender and social protection in on how to best realise the objectives of the WPSP, namely to: the Pacific starts with the recognition of women’s agency while >> improve the representation of women in decision-making also acknowledging that pervasive structures and processes roles and positions of influence in public service, of inequality severely constrain their creativity and resilience in through providing women with enhanced leadership skills adversity. Pacific women are doubly devalued by masculinist and capabilities; structures that have their origins in both indigenous cultures and the introduced culture of a globalizing capitalism in both >> improve responsiveness to gender equality issues, through colonial and contemporary epochs. This discussion paper providing future female public service leaders with an considers these dynamics in three countries of the region – enhanced understanding of the critical barriers to achieving Papua New Guinea, Tonga and Vanuatu – exploring how best gender equality and possible solutions to these barriers; to approach social protection so as to promote gender equality >> improve and deepen the understanding of gender equality rather than risk reinscribing prevailing gender inequalities. matters in the Asia-Pacific region amongst future Australian Falling through the Net was selected as a discussion paper for women leaders. the G20 website and was included in the report The Progress This is consistent with the broad aim of the WPSP to reach of the World’s Women 2015 by UN Women. a minimum of 50 per cent representation of women in public service, including in leadership positions, by 2050. The Australian Chapter will nurture and advance emerging women leaders in public life. Building women’s full participation across a range of public sectors in Australia will develop individuals who contribute to their communities and to the life of the nation. The Australian chapter will have three key elements: teaching, research and global mentoring.

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ANU Gender Institute Report 2013-2014 31 ANU INSPIRING WOMEN

ANU is well known for its unique character. Part of this is a warm, egalitarian ‘Australianness’ but it can also manifest as the ‘blokey’ culture of an institution that is numerically and visibly male in its academic and governance profiles. Begun in 2012, ANU Inspiring Women was a project animated by the idea that the ANU is also constituted by immense female talent. Not only that of world-class female scholars and teachers, but also by the women who create our institutional DNA as administrators and service providers. This project, culminating in the book ANU Inspiring Women, acknowledges ANU women – from professors to café proprietors – who were nominated by their peers as being inspirational in developing and sustaining our institutional culture and reputation.

From more than 40 nominations received we selected 24 Congratulating the ANU Inspiring Women women to tell us about their intellectual or work passions, career paths and turning points, sources of inspiration and work-life balance. Vice Chancellor Professor Ian Young launched the publication at the Gender Institute’s second anniversary event in 2013.

Congratulating the ANU Inspiring Women

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32 ANU Gender Institute The ANU Inspiring Women are:

Kate Bisshop-Witting, Senior School Administrator, School Sue Stocklmayer, Professor of Science Communication, ANU of History and School of Philosophy, Research School of Social College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Sciences, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences Sylvie Thiebaux, Professor, Research School of Computer Alison Booth, Professor of Economics, ANU College of Science, ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science Business and Economics Margaret Thornton, Professor of Law, ANU College of Law Professor Valerie Braithwaithe, Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet) Iwu Dwisetyani Utomo, Fellow, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences Dorothy Broom, AM, Emerita Professor, National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health, ANU College of Medicine, Marianne Van Galen Dickie, Migration Law Program Sub- Biology & Environment Dean, ANU College of Law

Kylie Catchpole, Research Fellow, Centre for Sustainable Ranka Videnovic, Assistant School Administrator, Energy Systems, ANU College of Engineering and Computer Research School of Management, ANU College of Business Science and Economics

Hyaeweol Choi, Foundation Professor of Korean Studies; Director, Korea Institute; School of Culture, History and Language

Gaye Doolan, Indigenous Project Officer, School of General Practice, Rural & Indigenous Health, ANU Medical School

Nadia Frankham, Director, Acton Early Childhood Centre

Shirley Gregor, Professor of Information Systems, ANU College of Business and Economics

Judy Hodgins, Proprietor, The Gods @ HB

Lisa Kewley, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, ANU College of Physical & Mathematical Science

Heather McEwan, Marketing Manager, ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science

Elizabeth Minchin, Professor of Classics and Ancient History, School of Cultural Inquiry, ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences

Molly O’Brien, Associate Professor of Law; Director of Teaching and Learning, ANU College of Law

Helen O'Neill, Professor, Head of Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratory, ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment

Robyn Petch, Area Administrator, Research School of Earth Sciences, ANU College of Physical & Mathematical Science

Marion Stanton, Head of Hall, Bruce Hall

Cecily Stewart, Director, Marketing and Communications, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU College of Asia and Pacific

ANU Gender Institute Report 2013-2014 33 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

International Women’s Day events at Gender Equity Oversight Group to ensure ANU meets ANU provide opportunities to network, gender targets by 2020 to celebrate women and recognise their At the 2014 International Women’s Day event at ANU, Vice- Chancellor Ian Young announced the establishment of a contribution to the University. Gender Equity Oversight group. This group will ensure equal The Gender Institute convener, Fiona Jenkins, hosted two gender opportunities in processes of recruitment, promotion morning tea events for International Women’s Day in March and representation on committees. 2013 and 2014, held at University House, ANU. The Vice-Chancellor proposed the following goals for gender Invited speaker in 2013: equity at ANU by 2020: >> ANU Professor Hilary Charlesworth, Director of the >> By 2020 the percentage of academic staff who are women, Centre for International Governance and Justice and in each discipline area, at the senior academic levels of D ARC Laureate. and E will equal or exceed the Go8 average Invited speakers in 2014: >> By 2020 the percentage of women in senior professional staff positions (Level SM1 and above) will equal or exceed >> Vice Chancellor Ian Young the Go8 average >> ANU Nobel Prize winner, Astrophysicist These are areas in which ANU has not historically performed Professor Brian Schmidt well and, unless clear action is taken, these targets will not be >> Dr Rowena Ball, ARC Future Fellow from the ANU College reached. Late last year both the Senior Management Group of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. and University Council endorsed a range of measures to improve gender equity at ANU. Gender Champions The gender oversight group will have responsibility for the At the International Women’s Day celebration at the ANU, above initiatives and future initiatives to be developed. the Gender Institute and the Diversity and Workforce The group will monitor progress against the ANU by 2020 Planning Branch have recognised ANU staff members who targets and report annually to the University Access & Equity have been nominated by their colleagues as committed Committee (UAEC) and Academic Board. The Group will also supporters of gender equity. These are the Gender Champions, consider new initiatives which might be introduced to enhance people who have: Gender Equity at ANU. >> raised the profile of women and or spoken out for These measures will ensure that ANU is able to achieve the women’s issues targets set in ANU by 2020 to improve gender equity, and >> acted as a mentor or coach for women at ANU to help their in doing so, will help ensure that we attract and retain colleagues succeed in their career aspirations outstanding staff. >> supported our post graduate women to achieve their aspirations or are >> quiet achievers – women at ANU that are working behind the scenes to make sure others can shine.

Vice-Chancellor Ian Young announcing the International Women’s Day morning tea Brian Schmit establishment of the Gender Equity Oversight Group

34 ANU Gender Institute MEMBER NEWS

Member achievements Commission on the Status of Women 58, 10-21 March 2014 ANU Gender Institute members had many achievements in 2013 and 2014 such as: Gender Institute member Dr Susan Harris-Rimmer was Dr Beth Beckmann was appointed to the 2014-16 ACT selected by the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Ministerial Advisory Council on Women. Women, Senator the Hon Michaelia Cash, to participate in the official Australian Government delegation to the 58th Session Associate Professor Frank Bongiorno (School of History) of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in was awarded the 2013 ACT Book of the Year for The Sex Lives New York. of Australians: A History. The following report was prepared by Dr Susan Harris Professor Helen Ennis (School of Art) and Professor Angela Rimmer and Ms Julie McKay. Woollacott (School of History) were elected as Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2014. During the first week, we attended events on topics ranging from Women, Peace and Security, to women’s leadership and Dr Susan Harris Rimmer and Dr Julie Smith, both with financing for development. We were also able to have a number projects related to feminist scholarship, were among the ARC of meetings with individual non-government organisations to Future Fellowship recipients at ANU for 2014. hear their concerns and hopes for the Agreed Conclusions. Professor Kim Rubenstein was awarded the Edna Ryan One of the best experiences we had was meeting with the Award for Leadership in 2013. This award acknowledges and Pacific Delegates attending CSW58 and strategizing together celebrates women who have made a feminist difference by about the Agreed Conclusions. After our initial meeting, we held advancing the status of women. two subsequent meetings which were very useful and focused on specific language in the Agreed Conclusions. Outcomes of grants awarded by the Gender Institute included: Week two focused entirely on the negotiation of the Agreed Dr Kasia Williams edited a special issue of Life Writing, Conclusions and the resolutions. Our role that week varied focusing on Displaced Women: Eastern European Post-War from sharing information, to researching precedent and liaising Narratives in Australia, following a workshop supported by a with and seeking advice from international non-government Gender Institute grant and hosted at ANUCES organisations. It was fascinating to see which issues were Dr Fiona Jenkins, Dr Helen Keane and Professor Marian widely accepted and which created significant concerns for Sawer, won funding for an ARC Discovery project Gendered some Member States. The Agreed Conclusions were hard Excellence in the Social Sciences and published a special issue fought and reflect what we believe is a strong commitment from of Australian Feminist Studies with the same title, following a Member States to both a stand-alone goal for gender equality workshop co-sponsored by Gender Institute and RSSS. in the post-2015 development agenda and cross-cutting targets and indicators in other goals. Over the next Gender Institute members who are ANU 12 to 24 months, it will be critical to ensure that language Public Policy Fellows around women’s sexual and reproductive rights is strengthened and that commitment to eliminating harmful traditional practices Fellows are recognised for making significant contributions to is maintained. public debate. Throughout CSW58, we reflected on being proud to be part Professor Lorraine Elliott, Department of International of a sector which is so dedicated to seeing progress towards Relations, School of International, Political & Strategic Studies, gender equality. ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. We would like to thank the Government for the opportunity to Emeritus Professor Marian Sawer, ANU College of Arts attend CSW58 on the Government delegation and we hope and Social Sciences and former Head of the Political Science that this will be continued in years to come. Program, RSSS, ANU. She is a current member of the International Political Science Association Executive and co- editor, International Political Science Review. Professor Valerie Braithwaite, Regulatory Institutions Network, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. Professor Sharol Friel, Director, Regulatory Institutions Network and Professor of Health Equity, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific.

ANU Gender Institute Report 2013-2014 35 PRIZES FOR EXCELLENCE IN GENDER RESEARCH

Each year the Gender Institute is delighted to award ANU student prizes for undergraduate and graduate work. Prizes are announced and presented at our annual anniversary event in March for work undertaken in the previous year. Prizes are awarded under the following categories: >> Undergraduate Honours Thesis $500 >> Master Thesis $500 >> PhD Thesis $1000 Jonathon Zapasnik, Honours prize, with Vice Chancellor >> Journal article published by an ANU graduate student $500 Prof. Ian Young and Prof. Margaret Jolly Prize winners are selected on the following basis: >> Quality in the specialist disciplines or field (as evinced in the examiners' reports) >> Evidence of how far the thesis was seen to advance broader feminist theory in studies of gender and/or sexuality

2012 Prizes

Equal winners for undergraduate honours thesis, including $500 each: Mollie Boland-Anderson, Honours prize, with Vice Chancellor Jonathon Zapasnik (CASS, supervisor Dr Rosanne Kennedy): Prof Ian Young and Prof Margaret Jolly ‘Deceitful Skin: Embodying Sexual Trauma in Queer Time and Space’. Mollie Boland-Anderson (Law, supervisor Dr Wayne Morgan): ‘Lesbian Intimate Partner Violence: Understanding how the legal system’s heterosexist domestic violence framework distorts and erases lesbian existence’. First prize for PhD thesis, including $1000: Dr Catherine Bishop (CASS, supervisor Prof Angela Woollacott): ‘Commerce was a woman: Women in business in colonial Sydney and Wellington'. Dr Catherine Bishop, PhD thesis prize, with Vice Chancellor Second commendation made by panel for PhD thesis, Prof Ian Young and Dr Alessandra Capezio including $500: Dr Rebecca Monson (Law, supervisor Dr Daniel Fitzpatrick): ‘Hu nao save tok? Women, men and Land: negotiating property and authority in the Solomon Islands’. First prize for journal article published in 2012 by an ANU graduate student, including $500: Anne Rees (CASS, supervisor Prof Angela Woollacott): ‘The Quality and Not Only the Quantity of Australia’s People’.

Dr Rebecca Monson, second commendation for PhD thesis, with Vice Chancellor Prof Ian Young and Dr Alessandra Capezio

36 ANU Gender Institute 2013 Prizes

Equal winners for undergraduate honours thesis, including $500 each: Amir Pasha Peyrovi (Law, Supervisor Dr. Wayne Morgan): ‘Stabilising Gender From This Day Forward: Recognition of a Married Person's Gender Identity’. Harriet Mercer (CASS, Supervisor, Professor Angela Woollacott): ‘Making Claims on the Empire: Interwar Australian feminists' pursuit of equal imperial citizenship through the Amir Pasha Peyrovi, Honours prize, with Prof. Margaret Jolly and British Commonwealth League’. ANU Vice-Chancellor Prof. Ian Young AO Journal article published in 2013 by an ANU graduate student, including $500: David Gilbert (CAP, Supervisor Professor Andrew Walker): ‘Categorizing Gender in Queer Yangon’. First prize for masters thesis, including $500: Shane Harrison (Law, Supervisor Dr. Wayne Morgan): ‘Your Father is a Woman: Theorising Male-Male Sexual Violence as a Mechanism of Identity Warfare’.

First prize for PhD thesis, including $1000: Harriet Mercer, Honours prize with Prof. Margaret Jolly and ANU Vice-Chancellor Prof. Ian Young AO Ma Khin Mar Mar Kyi (CASS, Supervisor Professor Kathryn Robinson): ‘In Pursuit of Power: Politic, patriarchy, poverty and gender relations in New Order Myanmar/Burma’.

*Prizes awarded for work completed in 2014 will be announced in March 2015.

Ma Khin Mar Mar Kyi, PhD prize, with Prof. Angela Woollacott and ANU Vice-Chancellor Prof. Ian Young AO

ANU Gender Institute Report 2013-2014 37 HUMANITIES RESEARCH CENTRE AND ANU GENDER INSTITUTE JOINT FELLOWSHIP REPORT

Associate Professor Maryanne Dever I would like to begin by expressing my gratitude to the HRC School of Humanities and Social Science and the Gender Institute for this Fellowship and particularly for University of Newcastle, Australia the flexibility accorded me in terms of holding the Fellowship across a series of visits rather than a single stay. I made three visits to the HRC across the period May – November 2014. I found that this arrangement was particularly beneficial in terms of engaging over an extended period of time with staff at the ANU and in other Canberra institutions (e.g. National Library of Australia). During the course of these visits I proceeded as planned with work on my book manuscript entitled, Paper, Materiality and the Archived Page and I made substantial progress on different aspects of the project and gained valuable feedback on different elements of the work. In particular, I was able to begin writing up the final case study for the book covering the literary papers of English writer Valentine Ackland. This was work for which I had recently completed the archival research in the UK. Ultimately, this research and the new lines of argument I was developing formed the basis for my HRC seminar which was a work-in-progress presentation made on my final visit in November. During the Fellowship period I also developed a publishing proposal for my book which was accepted by Palgrave Macmillan in September. Maryanne Dever A further research objective achieved in the course of my time at the HRC was finalising work on a co-edited special issue of the journal, Archives and Manuscripts. This was published in November 2014 (http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/raam20/ current). In addition to my seminar for the HRC I took up several other opportunities to present my research. For the Gender Institute I delivered a public lecture in their Feminist Theory Now series on the topic of “Feminism’s Archive” (24 September). This was a well-attended event and gave me the opportunity to think about my current research project in the context of wider shifts in feminist approaches to empirical archival work. I was also invited to offer a paper for the Queer Objects symposium (16- 17 October) and made a further trip to Canberra to participate in this event. Together with Professor Lisa Adkins, I also presented a session through the Gender Institute for the ANU’s feminist researchers scoping our new plans as the incoming editors of the journal Australian Feminist Studies (Routledge/ Taylor & Francis). In addition to these activities above, I spent time with staff in the School of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics (SLLL) and facilitated a research retreat for literary studies staff from SLLL at Mt Stromlo on 18 November. Maryanne Dever, November 2014

38 ANU Gender Institute GRANTS

Grant Round 1, 2013 Out of Round grants 2013 Dr Kathryn Spurling, ‘Inspiring Australian Women’, Signature Professor Ken George, Feminisms, Transnationalism and the event/ distinguished lectures by renowned scholars; Ms Media; Masterclass for PhD students and ECRs by Purnima Geraldine Cox, Cambodian Sunrise Village project, 25 Mankekar, Associate Professor in Gender Studies and Asian September 2013. Ms Matilda House-Williams, Ngambri, American Studies at the University of California (UCLA), 16 Ngunnawal, Wiradjuri elder, 21 October 2013; Professor Fiona July 2013, and Public Lecture: Erotics, Media, and Sociality in Wood, Western Australia Citizen of the Year award for her Transnational Asia 17 July 2013. contribution to Medicine, 'In Mind Body and Spirit': a life’s journey and the quest for burn injury scarless healing, 30 Dr Inger Mewburn, ‘Gender matters in research training: October 2013. Gender, degree completion, training and support services’, Seminar in connection with research project on graduate Dr Susan Harris-Rimmer, Public lecture and ECR workshop student patterns of attrition and retention. by Ms Kamala Chandrakirana as part of the proposed Women, Peace and Security: Promoting Justice in the Asia Pacific Grant Round 1, 2014 Region event. Celine d'Orgeville, Women in Astronomy 2014 workshop: Dr Cathy Banwell, Workshop for graduate students: 'We are All Made of Stars: Establishing Equity and Diversity Enhancing Gender in Research and Writing, 8-9 August. within Australian Astronomy', co-sponsorship of the annual workshop, August 2014. Anne Macduff, Public lecture by renowned scholar, Dr Honni van Rijswijk, University of Technology Sydney, ‘Feminism, Law, Dr Julie Smith, 'Breastfeeding support on campus within and Literature: New Directions’ at the 2013 National Annual a human rights framework: How does the ANU stack up Conference of the Law, December 2013; Writing workshop for nationally?': workshop and forum, July - October 2014. ECR/HDR by Dr Honni van Rijswijk The Politics and Aesthetics Dr Susan Harris Rimmer, Investing in Gender Equality at of Academic Writing. the Group of 20 Leaders' Summit, Brisbane 2014. A signature Dr Joanna Sikora, Public lecture and workshop, Prof. event/public event and an invitation only Policy Forum jointly Maureen Baker, Professor of Sociology at the University of hosted with UK think tank Chatham House, September 2014. Auckland, 'Academic Careers and the Gender Gap’, Gender Dr Carolyn Strange, 'Women's Studies and Gender Studies Equity Research and Innovative Initiatives within ANU, 2 at ANU: A Celebration of Professor Jill Julius Matthews' career'. September; part of ANU Gender Institute Women in Academia An event highlighting the historical development of gender seminar series. studies at ANU. Dr Victoria Mason, The 'female Rushdie': Fallen prose of a Grant Round 2, 2014 fallen woman. Public lecture by Hanifa Deen, award-winning author and social commentator of Anne Rees, Lilith journal 2015 symposium: Flesh and Blood: A Feminist Symposium on Embodied Histories. Pakistani-Muslim ancestry. Anne Sophie Dielen, support for ANU students to attend the Grant Round 2, 2013 ComBio Dinner. Professor Marian Sawer, Masterclass by Professor Linda Anne Sophie Dielen, support for her work on the League of Trimble for Postgraduate Students. Public lecture: ‘The Media Remarkable Women in Science, weblog. Framing of Women Prime Ministers in Australia, Canada and New Zealand’; Signature event entitled ‘Framed? Julia Gillard Penny King, research, workshop and production of a report and the Gender Wars’, with Panel, August 2014. on; Women's Career Pathways in the Research School of Earth Sciences, ANU. October 2104 – September 2015. Dr Monique Rooney, ‘Queer Theory’s Foucault’ / Queer Objects, two connected events: ‘The Queer Theory’s Foucault’ Sophie Yates, ANU Circle for Gender Equity, for various public Gender Institute Distinguished lecture by Professor Robyn panel events and speaker programme. Wiegman from Duke University and symposium, October 2014. Beth Beckman, to continue and expand the structured writing Dr Minerva Nasser Eddine, ‘The Art of Revolution in Egypt: workshop, ANU Academic Women’s Writing Workshop. Brushes with Women’ - Public Lecture and ECR Workshop: ‘New Culture’: Active Gender Equality & Social Justice in the Anne MacDuff, Post Feminism, Post Theory, Post Critique?, Arab world- with visitor with Margot Badran, September 2013. a 2 day collaborative workshop on academic feminism in Law, March 2015. Dr Elisabeth Findlay, Academic Women’s Writing Workshop (AWWW), December 2013. Catherine Noonan, to support 4 ANU students to attend the Harvard Undergraduate International Women in Business Celine d'Orgeville, 'Improving gender access and equity (HUWIB) Summit. within the ANU RSAA: Promoting gender equity from within', Gender Equity Research and Innovative Initiatives within ANU, Out of Round grants 2014 November 2013-March 2014. Jessica Avalon for ANU Circle for Gender Equity, Panel Serge Tcherkezoff, ‘Adoption by same-sex parents in Discussion on Culture, Gender and Development, March 2014. Western societies’, Distinguished Public Lecture and Round Miranda Stewart, Gender and Tax Policy: International Lecture Table by Prof Agnes FINE, EHESS, France, September 2013. and Workshop, September 2015. Zuleika Arashiro, Decolonising International Development: Narratives & Practices, signature event/workshop, May 2015.

ANU Gender Institute Report 2013-2014 39 ANU GENDER INSTITUTE PHD SCHOLARSHIP REPORT

Hannah McCann Awards School of Sociology >> 2013 ANU Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences Tutoring and Demonstration

>> 2012 ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences Award for Excellence in Tutoring Other highlights and activities >> Coordinator of the Gender Institute’s Graduate Node, a network for graduate students working on topics related to gender, sex and/or sexuality >> Graduate representative on Sociology Board of Studies committee for 2013 scholarship applications >> Member of Australian National University’s Diversity Learning Community Academic Advisory Committee >> Presenter, Australian National University’s Mardi Gras celebration, "Alphabet Soup: The growing acronym in sexuality identity politics" >> Panellist at the ANU Women’s Department and ANU Diversity Learning Community event “Sex and Consent: From the Personal to Political” Publications "Beyond ‘men’ and ‘women’: the fraught issue of Olympic Hannah McCann gender testing", on The Conversation theconversation.edu.au/beyond-men-and-women-the-fraught- Hannah McCann commenced her PhD research under the issue-of-olympic-gender-testing-8585 guidance of Dr Helen Keane in late 2011 and is nearing completion of a full draft of her thesis, which is titled: “Masculinity behind the Masquerade: The Problem of Reading “Intelligible Femininities: (Re)imagining the space of Queer Femininity”, Queer Sexualities, ed. Vikki Fraser, Inter- feminine performatives”. Disciplinary Press, 2013. The thesis explores the way that femininity as a concept is Co-authored, “All Those Little Machines: Assemblage as defined and challenged in recent feminist writing in contrast to Transformative Theory”, Australian Humanities Review, vol. 55, being enacted and subverted in queer “femme” communities. no. 2013, pp. 45 - 66. Her research has involved analysis of select feminist and femme “The Dead Girl in Feminism: A Transformation in Five Acts”, texts, as well as qualitative interviews with femme identifying Writing from Below, Vol 2, No 1 2014. people across Australia. “Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered (GLBT) Romance”, The Hannah has also tutored for a number of courses from 2012 to Romance Encyclopedia, ed. Kirstin Ramsdell, forthcoming. 2014, including on gender, sociology and policy. Hannah also took leave from her study to co-convene and lecture a course for the Gender Studies major, “GEND2034: Going Public: Sex, Sexuality and Feminism” in the School of Languages, Literature and Linguistics. A recent highlight of Hannah’s research was receiving a YWCA of Canberra Great Idea Grant to attend the Femme Hive conference in Berlin (2014), at which she presented the paper “Feeling Queer Femme: Assemblages & the Body”.

40 ANU Gender Institute FUTURE EVENTS

Gender and History seminars Various dates Organised by ANU Gender Institute Gender and History node leader, Professor Hyaeweol Choi, School of Culture, History and Language, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific.

Panel events – ANU Circle for Gender Equity Various dates Supported by an ANU Gender Institute Grant in conjunction with the ANU Circle for Gender Equity.

Lilith Journal Symposium April 2015 Supported by an ANU Gender Institute Grant in conjunction with Anne Rees, School of History.

Post feminism. Post theory. Post critique? May 2015 Supported by an ANU Gender Institute Grant in conjunction with Anne MacDuff, ANU College of Law.

Gender stream of Workshop: Decolonising International Development: Narratives and Practices May 2015 Supported by an ANU Gender Institute Grant in conjunction with Zuleika Arashiro, School of Politics and International Relations.

Equity initiative: League of Remarkable Women in Science May 2015 Supported by an ANU Gender Institute Grant in conjunction with Anne-Sophie Dielen, ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment.

Gender and Tax Policy: International Lecture and Workshop September 2015 Supported by an ANU Gender Institute Grant in conjunction with Professor Miranda Stewart, Crawford School of Public Policy.

*Please visit the Gender Institute website for up to date information.

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