The Labour Management Studies Foundations at Macquarie University is again hosting the 16th Women, Management and Employment Relations Conference. It will be held in Sydney on 22–23 July 2004 at the Hotel Inter-Continental.
Addressing equal employment and workplace culture, this high profile conference provides an annual audit of the key issues confronting women in the workplace. Themes of the 2004 conference include the following:
- managing change
- leadership
- gender.
All conference sessions are of interest to women. As well as the traditional topics – Women at Work: Tackling Prejudice; Leadership is Women’s Business and Parental Leave: Who’s Rocking the Baby? – two sessions will address gender and sex discrimination issues to highlight the 20th anniversary of the Sex Discrimination Act, Is Gender still on the Agenda? and The Sex Discrimination Act: 20 Years On.
Creative Director, Grant Dodwell, will highlight stressful workplace situations through role plays in the session Managing Change: Managing Stress. This interactive session will explore practical solutions to these issues, using input from both the speakers and audience.
Leading speakers include:
- Sharan Burrow, President, Australian Council of Trade Unions
- Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Pru Goward
- Senator Stott Despoja, Senator for South Australia
- Mary Kostakidis, World News Presenter with SBS
- Guy Russo, Managing Director, McDonald’s Australia
- Dr Anne Summers, author and journalist.
The dinner address will be by Mara Moustafine who is the National Director of Amnesty International Australia. For further information contact Pam Morpeth on (02) 9850 8985, email pam.morpeth@efs.mq.edu.au or visit the web site at www.gsm.mq.edu/wmer
