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Stephanie HoltThe glass ceiling: shattered, cracked or stubbornly intact?
As women joined the paid workforce in increasing numbers in the twentieth century they battled long-established discrimination. Low pay, exclusion from jobs defined as ‘men’s work’, and forced ‘retirement’ on marriage were just a few of the barriers in place. In the 1970s feminists identified a less-visible form of discrimination — the ‘glass ceiling’, the invisible, but equally-powerful set of assumptions that blocked women from promotion and from appointment to senior management. Many companies now promote their commitment to gender equity, but how real is it? Have women really shattered the glass ceiling, or does it continue to block women’s progress?
Join our three expert speakers as they debate the impact of the glass ceiling on the working lives of women.
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Karen Downing is an honorary lecturer in the School of History at the Australian National University. She works in the fields of gender history, particularly masculinities, and history of emotions. Karen is preoccupied with the question of why historians of gender who look for change over time keep finding disappointing continuities. |
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Kate Fitch is a Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Monash University, Australia. Her research focuses on historical, feminist and social justice perspectives on public relations. Her publications include two books and over 30 journal articles and book chapters. She co-edits Public Relations Inquiry.
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Claire EF Wright is a business historian at UTS Business School. She is interested in the way Australia’s socio-cultural structures have influenced corporate leadership and diversity. Claire is an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellow (2022-25) working on the first history of Australia’s corporate women across the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
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The seminar is part of an ongoing series of free online seminars, Making Public Histories, that is offered jointly by the Monash University History Program, the History Council of Victoria and the Old Treasury Building.
Each seminar aims to explore issues and approaches in making public histories. The seminars are open, free of charge, to anyone interested in the creation and impact of history in contemporary society. Click HERE to learn about other events in the series.
We thank the series sponsors, Monash University Publishing, the Monash University History Program and the Old Treasury Building.
Posted by Admin Account on February 12, 2025
