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A 3 page paper discussing the course of change from women’s perspective over the years. It appears that advances for women in general are preceded with intense social change. It was not until the 1970s that women made noticeable and lasting advances in Australia, after the “women’s movement” had been operational for some time. Today, it is Generation X that dictates the need for balance in work and home life. As men seek to achieve more of the balance that has been required of women in the past, likely there will be fewer gender-based differences apparent as well. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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File: CC6_KSglassCeilAu.rtf
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that crosses gender lines quite well, particularly in terms of resistance to it. Women in all developed nations have sought to break the "glass ceiling," regardless of how high
or how low it happened to be at the time they came to adulthood. Early pioneers certainly were not resistant to the change that they saw as needing to
occur, but in many respects they had to "do battle" on three fronts: men, other women and the status quo. As has been the case in the worlds
other developed economies, women have made great strides in Australia over the past half-century. There is more distance to go, however, for Australias women have not yet arrived at
the final destination. Reality of the Glass Ceiling Does the glass ceiling even exist? Baxter and Wright (2000) conducted a comparative study
across cultures, including the United States, Sweden and Australia in their research. They found no "evidence for systematic glass ceiling effects in the United States and only weak evidence
for such effects in" (Baxter and Wright, 2000; p. 275) Sweden and Australia. Certainly many women in the US would beg to differ with Baxter and Wright (2000), and
it appears that the same is true in Australia as well. The existence of the glass ceiling in Australia may well be a
function more of perspective than reality, however. A recent report reveals that while 60 percent of the students enrolled in the University of New South Wales law school in
2002 were women, most "Most of Australias top MBA schools are struggling to reach the 40 per cent mark for female students" (Glass ceiling in place with MBAs, 2003).
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