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Essential ingredients in the success of the first woman professor in computer science at ANU Professor Sylvie Thiébaux still remembers when she realised she wanted to work with computers. “I was around 13 years old. I was at Orly airport, waiting to go on my first plane trip, and the plane was delayed. So I was wandering around the airport newsagency,” says Sylvie, who was born in France in 1968. “This was in the beginning...
A feminist legal scholar warns that gains made by women in the law and legal profession could be under threat When Professor Margaret Thornton considered practising as a barrister after graduating from law school in the late 1970s she was told she was “the best qualified but the wrong sex”. She embarked on an academic career instead, and has since been at the forefront of campaigns to tackle sexism in the law and the legal...
A demographer’s remarkable journey through difficult cultural territory From first grade onwards, Iwu Dwisetyani Utomo, a Fellow at the Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute (ADSRI), recalls celebrating the Indonesian national holiday Kartini Day commemorating the birthday in 1879 of her country’s national heroine, Raden Ayu Kartini. Kartini was a Javanese princess who sought education beyond the harsh constraints of her day where women were secluded from age 12 while preparing for an arranged and,...
A varied career was motivated by immigration policy and the plight of refugees Marianne Van Galen-Dickie is no stranger to controversy. She has been championing the cause of refugees for more than a decade amid policy turmoil and heated public debate. She entered the field in the 1990s when she worked as an adviser to the Australian Democrats on immigration policy. Now the Sub-Dean of the migration law program at the Australian National University College...
An administrator describes how she has balanced work, family and study since arriving in Australia as a refugee Fleeing war-torn Sarajevo in the 1990s, Ranka Videnovic, then in her late twenties, arrived in Australia with her husband, her five-month-old baby and $200 in her pocket. She has never looked back. “During the war, my husband and I decided we didn’t want to live in Bosnia-Herzegovina anymore,” she says. “We didn’t want to raise our children...
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