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The Gender Institute funds projects which contribute to gender research or promote gender equality at ANU. These projects are designed by our members, or members of the management committee, and receive larger levels of funding and support due to their scale and significance. We are excited to present below our current and most recent projects.
Coercive Control
The 2021 National Summit on Women’s Safety highlighted the problem of ‘coercive control’ (CC) in intimate partner relationships. Although many activists support criminalising the behaviour, others caution against responses likely to reinforce social inequalities. Moreover, criminal laws are ill-suited to prevent the abuse of power. How can researchers contribute to tackling this problem?
Caring about Care
Caring about Care is a research project co-led by Elise Klein and Janet Hunt and funded by the Gender Institute. The project focuses on the unpaid care work performed by First Nations women and seeks to address the gap in literature on the subject. Using qualitative research and fieldwork, the project is ongoing and aims to lead into further research funded by the ARC.
ANU Inspiring Women
ANU is well known for its unique character. Part of this is a warm,egalitarian ‘Australianness’ but it can also manifest as the ‘blokey’ culture of an institution that is numerically and visibly male in its academic and governance profiles. ANU Inspiring Women is a project animated by the idea that the ANU is also constituted by immense female talent. Not only that of world-class female scholars and teachers, but also by the women who create our institutional DNA as administrators and service providers.
This project, culminating in the book you are reading, acknowledges ANU women – from professors to café proprietors – who were nominated by their peers as being inspirational in developing and sustaining our institutional culture and reputation.
Gendered Excellence in the Social Sciences
Gender equity has still not been realised, despite decades of activism, policy and research. In some of the social sciences women make up less than 15 per cent of the professoriate. Yet these are the disciplines that should most aid our understanding of how gender works in society. This project asks what impact women’s limited influence and status in these key fields of research has upon our capacity to grapple with the social and political changes necessary for progress toward gender equality.
