Gillian Whitehouse
Biographic Data
| ID | 196127 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gillian Whitehouse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gillian |
| FAMILY NAME | Whitehouse |
| SIGNATURE | WHITEHOUSE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2179-0369 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 109 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Dimensions of Social Equality in Paid Parental Leave Policy Design: Comparing Australia and Japan
Paid parental leave policies in both Australia and Japan fit within Dobrotić and Blum’s (2020) classification of a selective employment-based entitlement model, thus offering an extension of that category beyond Europe and illustrating the wide variation possible within it. In this article we develop indices for comparing employment-based parental leave policies on three dimensions of social equality: inclusion, gender equality and redistribution…
Wage-setting and gender pay equality in Australia: Advances, retreats and future prospects
This article re-examines the main principle applied in the pursuit of gender equality in Australian wage-setting systems (equal remuneration for work of equal value) through the lens of a typology of contrasting approaches to gender (and overall) wage equality. It focuses on landmark legislative initiatives and cases over four epochs in Australian wage-setting history, from the first national equal pay case in 1969 to current provisions under the…
Equal pay for work of equal value, wage-setting and the gender pay gap
The principle of equal pay for work of equal value has radical potential but uneven application and impact. As one strand within the multiplicity of measures required to impede the reproduction of gender pay gaps, its strengths lie in an expanded notion of equality and capacity to challenge gendered norms embedded in wage-setting practices. Almost 70 years after the principle was given expression in the International Labour Organisation’s Equal R…
Addressing Corruption in Post-Soeharto Indonesia: The Role of the Corruption Eradication Commission
Anti-corruption became one of the top priorities in post-Soeharto Indonesia, with democratisation, market liberalisation and institutional anti-corruption frameworks pursued as means to enhance transparency and accountability in public governance. A core component of these efforts was the establishment of a powerful anti-corruption agency, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). This article assesses the effectiveness of the KPK, using evide…
Self-reported harassment and bullying in Australian universities: Explaining Differences Between Regional, Metropolitan and Elite Institutions
We analyse data from the largest survey of university staff in Australia to determine whether bullying and harassment are more common in regional than metropolitan and Go8 universities, and to what extent any differences could be attributed to other factors. While professional staff showed no difference in harassment rates between regional and metropolitan and Go8 universities, academic staff at regional universities reported significantly higher…
Mothers' perceptions of support in the workplace: A sense of entitlement or resignation
This article investigates mothers' 'sense of entitlement' to workplace supports for family responsibilities. While 'family-friendly' workplace provisions have become more prevalent alongside the increasing labour force engagement of mothers, the notion of an 'ideal worker' unencumbered by family responsibilities continues to inform practice in many workplaces. Potential indicators of, and pressures for, change include employees' sense of entitlem…
Leave Duration After Childbirth: Impacts on Maternal Mental Health, Parenting, and Couple Relationships in Australian Two-Parent Families
In this article, we use longitudinal data on Australian two-parent families to assess the impact of mothers' leave duration after childbirth on their subsequent mental health, quality of parenting, and couple relationships. We found that 2 to 3 years after the birth, psychological distress was significantly less likely among mothers who took >13 weeks paid leave or >26 to 52 weeks leave in total. However, those who took >26 weeks in total were mo…
A Limit to Reflexivity: The Challenge for Working Women of Negotiating Sharing of Household Labor
Unpaid household labor is still predominantly performed by women, despite dramatic increases in female labor force participation over the past 50 years. For this article, interviews with 76 highly skilled women who had returned to the workforce following the birth of children were analyzed to capture reflexive understandings of the balance of paid and unpaid work in households. Alongside a need to work for selfhood was a reflexive awareness of in…
Duration of Leave and Resident Fathers' Involvement in Infant Care in Australia
This article uses time-diary data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC; N = 2,157 weekday diaries; N = 2,110 weekend diaries) to examine differences in infants' time with a resident father at age 4-19 months according to fathers' duration of leave around the birth. Results showed that those infants whose fathers took 4 weeks' leave or longer spent no more time with their father than did infants whose fathers took a shorter lea…
Gender, Computing and the Organization of Working Time: Public/private comparisons in the Australian context
Professional computing employment in Australia, as in most advanced economies, is highly sex segregated, reflecting well-rehearsed ideas regarding the masculinity of technology and computing culture. In this paper we are concerned with the processes of work organization that sustain and reproduce this gendered occupational distribution, focusing in particular on differences and similarities in working-time arrangements between public and private …
Women, information technology and ‘waves of optimism’: Australian evidence on ‘mixed‐skill’ jobs
Optimism about the increased engagement of women in information technology employment has been informed, in part, by essentialist ideas about the suitability for women of emerging jobs combining technical with interpersonal, artistic or other ‘non‐technical’ skills. Drawing on evidence from Australia, we highlight limitations to this brand of optimism, questioning the potential for women in mixed‐skill jobs in computing and multimedia organisatio…
Fathers' Use of Leave in Australia
This paper examines Australian fathers’ use of leave at the time of the birth of a child, drawing on data from The Parental Leave in Australia Survey, conducted in 2005, and a subsequent organizational case study. Our analysis shows that although most Australian fathers take some leave for parental purposes, use of formally designated paternity or parental leave is limited. This is unsurprising given the Australian policy framework, which lacks l…
Parenthood and pay in Australia and the UK: Evidence From Workplace Surveys
This article addresses the effect of parenthood on pay, examining potential reasons for differences between Australia and the UK that are evident in spite of their similarly minimalist, male breadwinner style approaches to work/ family issues. Although cross-national differences reflect complex intersections of policy combinations, institutional frameworks, patterns of employment and gender contracts that cannot be assessed in a single analysis, …
Prosecuting Pay Equity: Evolving Strategies in Britain and Australia
Some thirty years after the introduction of pay equity provisions in Australia and Britain, continued encroachments on the gender pay gap seem inordinately difficult to deliver. This article provides some reflection on the prosecution of pay equity cases in the two countries over this period, and seeks to identify lessons that can be drawn by contrasting the different approaches that have evolved. We are concerned in particular with the impact of…
Trade Unions—Enterprise Bargaining and Control at Work Evidence From The First Wave of Enterprise Agreements
Since the articulation of the Enterprise Bargaining principle by the Australian Industrial Relations Commission in 1991, and the reforms to the Industrial Relations Act passed in 1994, the pace of industrial relations deregulation in Australia has quickened considerably. This paper explores some of the characteristics of the first wave of enterprise bargains with particular reference to the role of trade unions in mediating the enterprise bargain…
The regulation of employment services: Private employment agencies and labour market policy
Public policy relating to the labour market has undergone significant change over recent years. These changes reflect demands for greater flexibility in the labour market, and respond to pressures of growing levels of unemployment and consequent exacerbation of divisions within the labour market. A conflict is apparent, however, in the mix of policies adopted. Accompanying moves towards a more ‘active’ style labour market policy has been a trend …
Legislation and Labour Market Gender Inequality: An Analysis of Oecd Countries
This paper presents the results of statistical analysis of workplace gender equality in OECD countries, including a time series regression analysis from 1974 to 1986. Two models of approaches to gender inequality in labour markets are set up - a `liberal' and a `collective' model - and the characteristics of each examined for their effects on measures of gender equality. The results suggest that aspects of the `collective' model, such as a centra…
Legislation and Labour Market Gender Inequality: An Analysis of Oecd Countries
This paper presents the results of statistical analysis of workplace gender equality in OECD countries, including a time series regression analysis from 1974 to 1986. Two models of approaches to gender inequality in labour markets are set up - a `liberal' and a `collective' model - and the characteristics of each examined for their effects on measures of gender equality. The results suggest that aspects of the `collective' model, such as a centra…
Fathers' Use of Leave in Australia
This paper examines Australian fathers’ use of leave at the time of the birth of a child, drawing on data from The Parental Leave in Australia Survey, conducted in 2005, and a subsequent organizational case study. Our analysis shows that although most Australian fathers take some leave for parental purposes, use of formally designated paternity or parental leave is limited. This is unsurprising given the Australian policy framework, which lacks l…
Duration of Leave and Resident Fathers' Involvement in Infant Care in Australia
This article uses time-diary data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC; N = 2,157 weekday diaries; N = 2,110 weekend diaries) to examine differences in infants' time with a resident father at age 4-19 months according to fathers' duration of leave around the birth. Results showed that those infants whose fathers took 4 weeks' leave or longer spent no more time with their father than did infants whose fathers took a shorter lea…
Addressing Corruption in Post-Soeharto Indonesia: The Role of the Corruption Eradication Commission
Anti-corruption became one of the top priorities in post-Soeharto Indonesia, with democratisation, market liberalisation and institutional anti-corruption frameworks pursued as means to enhance transparency and accountability in public governance. A core component of these efforts was the establishment of a powerful anti-corruption agency, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). This article assesses the effectiveness of the KPK, using evide…
A Limit to Reflexivity: The Challenge for Working Women of Negotiating Sharing of Household Labor
Unpaid household labor is still predominantly performed by women, despite dramatic increases in female labor force participation over the past 50 years. For this article, interviews with 76 highly skilled women who had returned to the workforce following the birth of children were analyzed to capture reflexive understandings of the balance of paid and unpaid work in households. Alongside a need to work for selfhood was a reflexive awareness of in…
Women, information technology and ‘waves of optimism’: Australian evidence on ‘mixed‐skill’ jobs
Optimism about the increased engagement of women in information technology employment has been informed, in part, by essentialist ideas about the suitability for women of emerging jobs combining technical with interpersonal, artistic or other ‘non‐technical’ skills. Drawing on evidence from Australia, we highlight limitations to this brand of optimism, questioning the potential for women in mixed‐skill jobs in computing and multimedia organisatio…
Parenthood and pay in Australia and the UK: Evidence From Workplace Surveys
This article addresses the effect of parenthood on pay, examining potential reasons for differences between Australia and the UK that are evident in spite of their similarly minimalist, male breadwinner style approaches to work/ family issues. Although cross-national differences reflect complex intersections of policy combinations, institutional frameworks, patterns of employment and gender contracts that cannot be assessed in a single analysis, …
Self-reported harassment and bullying in Australian universities: Explaining Differences Between Regional, Metropolitan and Elite Institutions
We analyse data from the largest survey of university staff in Australia to determine whether bullying and harassment are more common in regional than metropolitan and Go8 universities, and to what extent any differences could be attributed to other factors. While professional staff showed no difference in harassment rates between regional and metropolitan and Go8 universities, academic staff at regional universities reported significantly higher…
Prosecuting Pay Equity: Evolving Strategies in Britain and Australia
Some thirty years after the introduction of pay equity provisions in Australia and Britain, continued encroachments on the gender pay gap seem inordinately difficult to deliver. This article provides some reflection on the prosecution of pay equity cases in the two countries over this period, and seeks to identify lessons that can be drawn by contrasting the different approaches that have evolved. We are concerned in particular with the impact of…
Mothers' perceptions of support in the workplace: A sense of entitlement or resignation
This article investigates mothers' 'sense of entitlement' to workplace supports for family responsibilities. While 'family-friendly' workplace provisions have become more prevalent alongside the increasing labour force engagement of mothers, the notion of an 'ideal worker' unencumbered by family responsibilities continues to inform practice in many workplaces. Potential indicators of, and pressures for, change include employees' sense of entitlem…
Leave Duration After Childbirth: Impacts on Maternal Mental Health, Parenting, and Couple Relationships in Australian Two-Parent Families
In this article, we use longitudinal data on Australian two-parent families to assess the impact of mothers' leave duration after childbirth on their subsequent mental health, quality of parenting, and couple relationships. We found that 2 to 3 years after the birth, psychological distress was significantly less likely among mothers who took >13 weeks paid leave or >26 to 52 weeks leave in total. However, those who took >26 weeks in total were mo…
Dimensions of Social Equality in Paid Parental Leave Policy Design: Comparing Australia and Japan
Paid parental leave policies in both Australia and Japan fit within Dobrotić and Blum’s (2020) classification of a selective employment-based entitlement model, thus offering an extension of that category beyond Europe and illustrating the wide variation possible within it. In this article we develop indices for comparing employment-based parental leave policies on three dimensions of social equality: inclusion, gender equality and redistribution…
Legislation and Labour Market Gender Inequality: An Analysis of Oecd Countries
This paper presents the results of statistical analysis of workplace gender equality in OECD countries, including a time series regression analysis from 1974 to 1986. Two models of approaches to gender inequality in labour markets are set up - a `liberal' and a `collective' model - and the characteristics of each examined for their effects on measures of gender equality. The results suggest that aspects of the `collective' model, such as a centra…
The regulation of employment services: Private employment agencies and labour market policy
Public policy relating to the labour market has undergone significant change over recent years. These changes reflect demands for greater flexibility in the labour market, and respond to pressures of growing levels of unemployment and consequent exacerbation of divisions within the labour market. A conflict is apparent, however, in the mix of policies adopted. Accompanying moves towards a more ‘active’ style labour market policy has been a trend …
Trade Unions—Enterprise Bargaining and Control at Work Evidence From The First Wave of Enterprise Agreements
Since the articulation of the Enterprise Bargaining principle by the Australian Industrial Relations Commission in 1991, and the reforms to the Industrial Relations Act passed in 1994, the pace of industrial relations deregulation in Australia has quickened considerably. This paper explores some of the characteristics of the first wave of enterprise bargains with particular reference to the role of trade unions in mediating the enterprise bargain…
Prosecuting Pay Equity: Evolving Strategies in Britain and Australia
Some thirty years after the introduction of pay equity provisions in Australia and Britain, continued encroachments on the gender pay gap seem inordinately difficult to deliver. This article provides some reflection on the prosecution of pay equity cases in the two countries over this period, and seeks to identify lessons that can be drawn by contrasting the different approaches that have evolved. We are concerned in particular with the impact of…
Parenthood and pay in Australia and the UK: Evidence From Workplace Surveys
This article addresses the effect of parenthood on pay, examining potential reasons for differences between Australia and the UK that are evident in spite of their similarly minimalist, male breadwinner style approaches to work/ family issues. Although cross-national differences reflect complex intersections of policy combinations, institutional frameworks, patterns of employment and gender contracts that cannot be assessed in a single analysis, …
Gender, Computing and the Organization of Working Time: Public/private comparisons in the Australian context
Professional computing employment in Australia, as in most advanced economies, is highly sex segregated, reflecting well-rehearsed ideas regarding the masculinity of technology and computing culture. In this paper we are concerned with the processes of work organization that sustain and reproduce this gendered occupational distribution, focusing in particular on differences and similarities in working-time arrangements between public and private …
Women, information technology and ‘waves of optimism’: Australian evidence on ‘mixed‐skill’ jobs
Optimism about the increased engagement of women in information technology employment has been informed, in part, by essentialist ideas about the suitability for women of emerging jobs combining technical with interpersonal, artistic or other ‘non‐technical’ skills. Drawing on evidence from Australia, we highlight limitations to this brand of optimism, questioning the potential for women in mixed‐skill jobs in computing and multimedia organisatio…
Fathers' Use of Leave in Australia
This paper examines Australian fathers’ use of leave at the time of the birth of a child, drawing on data from The Parental Leave in Australia Survey, conducted in 2005, and a subsequent organizational case study. Our analysis shows that although most Australian fathers take some leave for parental purposes, use of formally designated paternity or parental leave is limited. This is unsurprising given the Australian policy framework, which lacks l…
Duration of Leave and Resident Fathers' Involvement in Infant Care in Australia
This article uses time-diary data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC; N = 2,157 weekday diaries; N = 2,110 weekend diaries) to examine differences in infants' time with a resident father at age 4-19 months according to fathers' duration of leave around the birth. Results showed that those infants whose fathers took 4 weeks' leave or longer spent no more time with their father than did infants whose fathers took a shorter lea…
A Limit to Reflexivity: The Challenge for Working Women of Negotiating Sharing of Household Labor
Unpaid household labor is still predominantly performed by women, despite dramatic increases in female labor force participation over the past 50 years. For this article, interviews with 76 highly skilled women who had returned to the workforce following the birth of children were analyzed to capture reflexive understandings of the balance of paid and unpaid work in households. Alongside a need to work for selfhood was a reflexive awareness of in…
Leave Duration After Childbirth: Impacts on Maternal Mental Health, Parenting, and Couple Relationships in Australian Two-Parent Families
In this article, we use longitudinal data on Australian two-parent families to assess the impact of mothers' leave duration after childbirth on their subsequent mental health, quality of parenting, and couple relationships. We found that 2 to 3 years after the birth, psychological distress was significantly less likely among mothers who took >13 weeks paid leave or >26 to 52 weeks leave in total. However, those who took >26 weeks in total were mo…
Self-reported harassment and bullying in Australian universities: Explaining Differences Between Regional, Metropolitan and Elite Institutions
We analyse data from the largest survey of university staff in Australia to determine whether bullying and harassment are more common in regional than metropolitan and Go8 universities, and to what extent any differences could be attributed to other factors. While professional staff showed no difference in harassment rates between regional and metropolitan and Go8 universities, academic staff at regional universities reported significantly higher…
Mothers' perceptions of support in the workplace: A sense of entitlement or resignation
This article investigates mothers' 'sense of entitlement' to workplace supports for family responsibilities. While 'family-friendly' workplace provisions have become more prevalent alongside the increasing labour force engagement of mothers, the notion of an 'ideal worker' unencumbered by family responsibilities continues to inform practice in many workplaces. Potential indicators of, and pressures for, change include employees' sense of entitlem…
Wage-setting and gender pay equality in Australia: Advances, retreats and future prospects
This article re-examines the main principle applied in the pursuit of gender equality in Australian wage-setting systems (equal remuneration for work of equal value) through the lens of a typology of contrasting approaches to gender (and overall) wage equality. It focuses on landmark legislative initiatives and cases over four epochs in Australian wage-setting history, from the first national equal pay case in 1969 to current provisions under the…
Equal pay for work of equal value, wage-setting and the gender pay gap
The principle of equal pay for work of equal value has radical potential but uneven application and impact. As one strand within the multiplicity of measures required to impede the reproduction of gender pay gaps, its strengths lie in an expanded notion of equality and capacity to challenge gendered norms embedded in wage-setting practices. Almost 70 years after the principle was given expression in the International Labour Organisation’s Equal R…
Addressing Corruption in Post-Soeharto Indonesia: The Role of the Corruption Eradication Commission
Anti-corruption became one of the top priorities in post-Soeharto Indonesia, with democratisation, market liberalisation and institutional anti-corruption frameworks pursued as means to enhance transparency and accountability in public governance. A core component of these efforts was the establishment of a powerful anti-corruption agency, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). This article assesses the effectiveness of the KPK, using evide…
Dimensions of Social Equality in Paid Parental Leave Policy Design: Comparing Australia and Japan
Paid parental leave policies in both Australia and Japan fit within Dobrotić and Blum’s (2020) classification of a selective employment-based entitlement model, thus offering an extension of that category beyond Europe and illustrating the wide variation possible within it. In this article we develop indices for comparing employment-based parental leave policies on three dimensions of social equality: inclusion, gender equality and redistribution…
Economics (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (8 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (7 works) · Labour economics (7 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (5 works)