The Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee's (AVCC) Action Plan for Women Employed in Australian Universities 2006-2010 is the topic of discussion today at the 2006 Australian Technology Network's Women's Executive Development Conference in Adelaide.
AVCC President Professor Gerard Sutton said that the Action Plan for Women Employed in Australian Universities was officially endorsed by Australia's Vice-Chancellors at last month's Plenary meeting in Hobart.
The Action Plan for Women has five priority goals at it's core:
to continue to encourage all universities to integrate equity strategies and performance indicators into their institutional plans and to support the priorities in this Plan;
to improve significantly the representation of women in senior roles by encouraging equity initiatives in critical areas;
to monitor the patterns of entry of women into academia and respond to barriers to sustained entry;
to improve the monitoring of gender equity in workforce data and access to information; and
to identify, and engage universities with, critical matters through research on gender equity issues and dissemination of good practice.
Professor Sutton said that the Action Plan for Women for 2006-2010 was a high priority for Vice- Chancellors, who are funding its implementation through the Australian Colloquium of Senior University Women in Higher Education.
This is the second AVCC Action Plan for Women and supersedes the first plan for the period 1999 to 2003.
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