The Clare Burton Memorial Lectures are held annually around Australia. The lectures commemorate Dr Clare Burton, a leading researcher, public sector administrator, academic, consultant and writer on employment equity, who passed away suddenly in August 1998.
The 2009 lecture "A Slow Revolution: maternity leave, women and work" will be presented by Associate Professor Marian Baird from Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney and Director of the Women and Work Research Group.
The lecture analyses changes in Australia’s attitudes to working women by examining maternity leave policies from 1979, when the first unpaid maternity leave decision of the Industrial Relations Commission was made, to the government’s announcement of a national system of paid parental leave on Mother’s Day in 2009. From 1 Jan 2010, working parents will also have the right to request an additional 12 months of unpaid parental leave and the right to request flexible working arrangements. These are significant, even revolutionary, policy changes in Australia. What will be the implications of these changes, for employers and for working parents, particularly women?
When: Friday 16th October 2009
Time: 12:00 – 2:30pm (Registration from 11:45am)
Venue: Argyle Room, Parmelia Hilton Perth, 14 Mill Street, Perth WA
Cost: $80 per person including a 2 course lunch, beverages and copy of 10th Anniversary Memorial Lecture Book. To register complete the Registration form and email orgdevelopment@curtin.edu.au
Deadline for registrations is Friday 2nd October 2009.
This lecture is brought to you as part of the Australian Technology Network Women's Executive Development Program. Sponsors include the Department for Communities and Curtin University of Technology.
All profits from this event are donated to the Clare Burton Memorial Scholarship Fund.
2007 - Clare Burton Lecture Paper 2007(pdf 182k)