The Review of the APS

Is gender really on anyone's agenda

Bibliographic Data

ID11960002
AuthorsL Colley (0000-0001-7692-5868, Appleton Institute, School of Business and Law Central Queensland University Brisbane Queensland Australia, corresponding author), Sue Williamson (0000-0001-9061-7466, School of Business UNSW Canberra Australian Capital Territory Australia)
Year2019
Volume78
Issue4
Pages651-656
Publication date2019-09-10
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAustralian Journal of Public Administration (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0313-6647 • E-ISSN: 1467-8500
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-8500.12398
OpenAlexW2972846477
LanguageEN
References cited13

As recently as 2016, the Australian Government stated its commitment to increasing gender equality in the Australian Public Service (APS) workforce. In May 2018, the Prime Minister announced a broad‐ranging Review of the APS, but gender equality was not mentioned in the Review Terms of Reference. An interim Review report was released in March 2019, which was also largely silent on gender issues. We examine the submissions to the Review to assess whether, and how, organisations have considered gender equality. We found an almost universal gender blindness in submissions and conclude that this may have contributed to the Review panel ignoring gender equality issues in their interim report. We further conclude that without a focus on gender equality within the Review and ensuing reforms, the APS gender equality strategy is rendered merely symbolic. We recommend the Review implement gender mainstreaming to ensure gender equality can progress in the APS

Civil service · Gender equality · Gender mainstreaming · Government (linguistics · Interim · Political science · Politics · Prime minister · Public relations · Public service · Sociology · Workforce · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Law · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Public Administration

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