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West, Tracey – Policy Futures in Education, 2020
Does the gender pay gap affect women's ability to repay their student debt? This study investigates the extent to which an income contingent scheme benefits women because of their individual earnings. Using the Australian Household, Income, and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey, gender differences in debt repayment behaviour over the past two…
Descriptors: Females, Debt (Financial), Gender Differences, Low Income Groups
Parvazian, Somayeh; Gill, Judith; Chiera, Belinda – SAGE Open, 2017
This article reports an analysis of the relationship between women's increased participation in higher education and other recent social changes over the last four decades. To date, women's increased involvement in higher education has been studied as either a force for or a consequence of other sociocultural changes. Drawing on data from key…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Females, Sociocultural Patterns, Statistics
Carroll, David; Tani, Massimiliano – Economics of Education Review, 2013
This study investigates the incidence of over-education amongst recent Australian bachelor degree graduates and its effect on their earnings. We find that between 24% and 37% of graduates were over-educated shortly after course completion, with over-education most common amongst young females and least common amongst older females. Over-education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, College Graduates, Salary Wage Differentials
Lord, Linley Anne; Preston, Alison – Gender and Education, 2009
This paper uses an auto-ethnographic storytelling approach to connect an individual's experience in leadership with the literature on women in leadership as a way of further exposing and understanding gendered organisational practices. Whilst the paper details only one women's experience it was through the connection to the literature that most…
Descriptors: Females, Foreign Countries, Leadership, Higher Education

Siriwardana, Mahinda; Jayalath, Bandara A. – Australian Bulletin of Labour, 1993
A study of female-male employment and earnings patterns in the Australian manufacturing sector (1911-36) and specifically the clothing and textile sector found that females were heavily discriminated against in areas dominated by males (such as leather goods). (JOW)
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Females, Foreign Countries, Manufacturing Industry

Kidd, Michael P.; Shannon, Michael – Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1996
Data from the 1989 Canadian Labour Market Activity Survey and 1989-90 Australian Income Distribution Survey suggest that a lower rate of return to education and labor market experience and a lower level of wage inequality in Australia are responsible for the smaller gender wage gap in Australia than in Canada. (SK)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Females, Foreign Countries, Labor Market
Castleman, Tanya; Allen, Margaret – Australian Universities' Review, 1995
Data from 10 Australian universities' payrolls indicate that while women constitute a majority of general staff, they are concentrated in lower-level positions. While general staff are more likely than faculty to hold permanent positions, women disproportionately hold nonpermanent jobs, even when age and length of service are controlled.…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Females, Foreign Countries

Simon, Jane – Australian Library Journal, 1994
Explores the inferior position of women librarians in the Australian workforce and presents a case study of Jean Arnot. Topics include women's financial status as related to marital status; barriers in the recruitment and promotion processes; issues of health; and salary differences. (67 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Economic Status, Females, Femininity

Meadmore, Peter – History of Education, 1999
Examines women teachers who taught in one-teacher schools in Queensland, Australia, from 1920-50. Discusses the research and provides a historical context. Focuses on topics such as teaching as a career, women teachers and marriage, unequal pay, and living conditions of women teachers. (CMK)
Descriptors: Careers, Educational History, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Miller-Lewis, Lauren R.; Wade, Tracey D.; Lee, Christina – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2005
This study investigated psychosocial predictors of early pregnancy and childbearing in single young women, consistent with the Eriksonian developmental perspective. Two mail-out surveys assessing reproductive behaviour and sociodemographic, education/competence, psychosocial well-being, and aspiration factors were completed 4 years apart by 2635…
Descriptors: Females, Pregnancy, Predictor Variables, At Risk Persons