by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Aug 6, 2026 | media and events
Published in The Conversation. I AM WORK. This handwritten phrase was found among the papers of industrialist Essington Lewis after his death in 1961. It captured the mindset shared by many Australian executives of his era. Lewis was one of mining giant BHP’s...
by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Jul 24, 2026 | updates
Corporate leadership is still a man’s world. Representation has improved, but men still dominate senior roles, women are often sidelined in ‘feminine’ leadership work, and both men and women are confined by a narrow range of acceptable behaviours. Indeed, the image of...
by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Mar 20, 2026 | media and events
Hello! I have just returned from hibernation following two really great conferences. The first was the annual Asia-Pacific Economic and Business History conference, held in Adelaide on the 4-6 February. I spoke about corporate masculinity, reconnected with fabulous...
by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Mar 6, 2026 | media and events
Published by UTS. On social media, the joke goes like this: The gender pay gap doesn’t exist. Men make more because they choose higher-paying jobs like doctor, lawyer and engineer, but women choose lower-paying jobs like female doctor, female lawyer and female...
by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Oct 2, 2025 | updates
I spend a lot of my time thinking about ‘femininity’. My work on the first history of women in corporate leadership requires that I discuss the assumed, and actual, wants and needs of corporate women. I examine the way women are expected to act, how they...
