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Shifting the Spectrum of Male Engagement in Gender Equity

Tuesday, 12 May 2020

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  • Group discussions at the SAGE WA Regional Network workshop

    Group discussions at the SAGE WA Regional Network workshop

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On 21 February 2020, an ECU team co-facilitated a workshop delivered by the Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE) Athena SWAN WA Regional Network, of which ECU is a member. The WA Regional Network facilitated this workshop at the recent Catalysing Gender Equity Conference 2020 (CGE2020) in Adelaide, South Australia. CGE2020 was hosted by the Australian Academy of Science in collaboration with SAGE and guided by the Women in STEM Decadal Plan,

The conference workshop entitled ‘Shifting the Spectrum of Male Engagement in Gender Equity - has the pendulum swung too far?’ was co-facilitated by Christine Gunson, ECU Manager of Strategic HR and Professor Jo Ward, Curtin University and supported by other ECU staff members. The WA Regional Network developed this workshop to increase the engagement of a minority of men (and women) who are resistant or less engaged with gender equity initiatives, and to discuss what changes need to occur to achieve gender equality.

The workshop featured a presentation from keynote speaker Professor Steve Wesselingh, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), followed by group discussion on specific scenarios or vignettes that came from direct experiences of the regional network members. These scenarios described interpersonal interactions with resistant colleagues related to promotion panel outcomes, gender pay gap, part-time work, recruitment decision, affirmative recruitment criteria, manager engagement and women only events. Following this, participants were given a draft ‘Gender Equity Fast Facts’ resource and invited to comment on its usefulness in developing potential responses to presented scenarios.

Moving forward the SAGE Athena SWAN WA Regional Network will refine the presented vignettes and include a selection of the best responses into a set of guidelines/ rehearsal narratives and these will be published via the SAGE website.

The summary and outcomes of the workshops are available online and the workshop facilitators welcome your feedback at sage@science.org.au.

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