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Reflections on Professor Still's retrospective: A trans-Tasman response

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2015

Judith K Pringle
Judith K Pringle*
Affiliation:
Organisation Studies, Faculty of Business, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
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Professor Still presents a succinct and insightful piece, reflecting on the development for women in management within Australia over the past three decades. She rightly focuses on women in management rather than to try and map the multitudinous developments of the women/gender in organisation literature that has mushroomed into a sub-discipline of its own over the past three decades.

In considering any parallel development for women in New Zealand it seems compelling to start in the late 19th century. As a result of direct and indirect action by the suffrage movement; fuelled by activities of the women's temperance union, NZ women gained the vote in 1893. Like Australia, the colonial women were perceived very much as Damned Whores and God's Police (Summer, 1994). In these brief reflections, I focus on the last 30 years of changes since the second wave of the feminist movement. In summary, the conclusions are somewhat depressingly similar to Australia; however, there are some noteworthy differences.

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Journal of Management & Organization , Volume 15 , Issue 5 , November 2009 , pp. 562 - 565
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press and Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management 2009

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