Affirmative action in Australia – employment statistics can′t tell the whole story
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19448223 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alison Sheridan (0009-0001-1736-3647, University of New England, corresponding author), Alison J Sheridan |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 26-34 |
| Publication date | 1995-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women in Management Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0964-9425 • E-ISSN: 1758-7182 |
| Publisher | Emerald (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1108/09649429510084612 |
| OpenAlex | W2005084331 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 4 |
The Affirmative Action (Equal Employment Opportunity for Women) Act 1986, requires all private sector employers in Australia with more than 100 employees to report annually on programmes they have developed to improve women′s employment opportunities. A criterion sampling approach was used to identify organizations whose public reports to the Affirmative Action Agency in 1992, contained at least some evidence of affirmative action programme development. There were 288 organizations identified in this way. The employment profiles of these 288 organizations for the period 1991‐1993 are compared with a random sample of another 288 organizations reporting to the agency over the same period. There are no clear conclusions which can be drawn from the employment profiles. What does emerge from the analysis is that simple quantitative measures of the effects of affirmative action are clearly inadequate to capture women′s employment experiences
Affirmative action · Demographic economics · Economics · Labour economics · Political science · Population · Private sector · Public relations · Public sector · Simple random sample · Social science · Sociology · Demography · Education Systems and Policy · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Labor Movements and Unions · Law
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