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Clare Burton Memorial Lecture
The Clare Burton Memorial Lecture is an annual event and honours the significant contributions made by the late Clare Burton to gender equity and organisational change in higher education and other areas. The guest speaker for 2005 is Professor Alison Mackinnon, Professor of History and Gender Studies and Foundation Director of the Hawke Research Institute, University of South Australia.
| What | Meeting |
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| When |
14-Oct-05 from 12:00 pm to 02:30 pm |
| Where | Terrace Ballroom, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Perth |
| Contact Name | Janice Burmaz |
| Contact Email | J.M.Burmaz@curtin.edu.au |
| Contact Phone | (08) 9266 3980 |
| Attendees | Educators |
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| More Information | http://lsn.curtin.edu.au/leadership |
Girls, Schools and Society: a generation of change
Gender equity in schools was one of the major initiatives of 1970s and 80s feminism. Animated by the belief that secondary schooling held key answers to the quest for equality, Australian women acted to reduce inequalities of access, curriculum and outcome for girls and women. A key text Girls, Schools and Society (Schools Commission 1975) set out both the problems and the hoped for solutions. Thirty years on much of that ambitious agenda has been achieved. Girls complete secondary schooling and go on to tertiary education in unprecedented numbers. Yet disadvantage stubbornly remains. This lecture draws on a recent study which looks at those girls and their mothers, charting continuities and discontinuities in the lives of mothers and daughters in a changing society.
