The Women and Work Research Group (WWRG) provides high quality research, research training and consultancy on all aspects of women's experience of work, employment, family and community in Australia and the Asia-Pacific Region.

WWRG Convenor: Dr Marian Baird, Associate Professor Work and Organisational Studies
WWRG Coordinator: Alison Page

Members: Dr Susan Ainsworth, Dr Rae Cooper, Dr Leanne Cutcher, A/Professor Bradon Ellem, Dr Elizabeth Hill, Professor Russell Lansbury, Dr Susan McGrath-Champ, Dr Gabrielle Meagher, Dr Belinda Smith, Dr Diane van den Broek, Sarah Wise, & Jeaney Yip

2008 Events

International Women's Day

To mark International Women's Day 2008, the Australian Government chose for its theme 100 years of shaping progress for women; and building a brighter future for all.

One of the events staged on this day was a panel featuring five prominent Australian women discussing the topic, Working women 100 years on: where have we been; where are we now; and, where are we going?

The panel membership included Dr Marian Baird, Associate Professor in Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney, Convenor of the Women and Work Research Group in the Faculty of Economics and Business; and Sharan Burrow, President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, President of International Centre for Trade Union Rights.

Geraldine Doogue AO, renowned Australian journalist and broadcaster, was also on the panel; along with Professor Barbara Pocock, inaugural Director of the Centre for Work and Life, researcher, academic, political adviser, and author; and Dr Dale Spender AM, author, feminist and educator.

Working women 100 years on: where have we been; where are we now; and, where are we going?

» Watch the the panel discussion convened by Tanya Plibersek on 11 March 2008. ABC Video

Women's Business - Current issues and future agendas

» Presentations from the colloquium on 7 March 2008 are now available.

Women and Work Choices Reports

NSW Report

Down and Out with Work Choices: The Impact of Work Choices on the Work and Lives of Women in Low Paid Employment PDF
Marian Baird, Rae Cooper and Damian Oliver

ACT Report

More Work, Less Choice: The Impact of National Labour Re-Regulation on Low-Paid Women Workers in the Australian Capital Territory PDF
Bradon Ellem

National Reports

Women and WorkChoices: Impacts on the Low Pay Sector PDF
Jude Elton, Janis Bailey, Marian Baird, Sara Charlesworth, Rae Cooper, Bradon Ellem, Therese Jefferson, Fiona Macdonald, Damian Oliver, Barbara Pocock, Alison Preston and Gillian Whitehouse
Women and WorkChoices: Impacts on the Low Pay Sector - Summary Report PDF