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	Academic Position: Administrative Position:    Qualifications:              Room: Building: Telephone:       Fax: Email:	Reader in Political Science Head of School PhD (Government), BA, First Class Honours (Government) 507 General Purpose North 3 (#39A) +61 7 3365 3280 +61 7 3365 1388 g.whitehouse@uq.edu.au

Teaching Interests:

Background:

Gillian Whitehouse has an international reputation for cross-nationally comparative and Australian-based research on gender pay equity. Her work has been cited by agencies including the OECD and the British Equal Opportunities Commission, in a number of top international journals (including the American Sociological Review, Relations Industriales and the British Journal of Industrial Relations), and has been used in cases before industrial tribunals in Australia. She appeared as an expert witness before the NSW and Queensland Pay Equity Inquiries, and in recent pay equity cases held before the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission. A significant contribution of her work on gender pay equity has been to illustrate the connection between industrial relations systems, institutional frameworks and gender equity outcomes, and her work on this issue has been published in high ranking international journals (including Work, Employment & Society, Industrial Relations Journal, Gender, Work & Organization, British Journal of Industrial Relations). Her research projects and consultancies in the area of gender equity in employment total over $2 million.

Selected Publications: 

1. Whitehouse, G. 2004. Justice and Equity: Women and Indigenous Workers, in S. Macintyre and J. Isaac (eds) The New Province for Law and Order: A Centenary of Australian Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, pp207-240.
2.  Whitehouse, G. 2004. From family wage to parental leave: the changing relationship between arbitration and the family, Journal of Industrial Relations, 46 (4): 400-412.
3.  Zetlin, D. and G. Whitehouse. 2003. Gendering industrial citizenship: from rights to risk, British Journal of Industrial Relations 41(4): 773-788.
4.  Whitehouse, G. 2003. Gender and pay equity: future research directions, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources 41(1): 116-128.
5.  Whitehouse, G. 2002. Parenthood and pay in Australia and the UK: evidence from workplace surveys, Journal of Sociology, 38(4): 381-397.
6.  Whitehouse, G. 2001. Recent trends in pay equity: beyond the aggregate statistics. Journal of Industrial Relations, 43 (1): 66-78.
7.  Whitehouse, G., D. Zetlin and J. Earnshaw. 2001. Prosecuting pay equity: evolving strategies in Britain and Australia. Gender, Work and Organization, 8(4): 365-386.
8.  Whitehouse, G., D. Grimshaw and D. Zetlin. 2001. Changing pay systems, occupational concentration and the gender pay gap: evidence from Australia and the UK. Industrial Relations Journal, 32(3): 210-230.
9.  Whitehouse, G. 2001. Industrial agreements and work/family provisions: trends and prospects under “enterprise bargaining”, Labour & Industry, 12(1): 109-129.
10.  Whitehouse, G. 1992. Legislation and Labour Market Gender Inequality: an Analysis of OECD Countries, Work, Employment and Society, 6, 1, 65-86.

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