by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Mar 11, 2024 | Publishing
This blog post was written by Dr Lauren Samuelsson who, amongst other fabulous things, was employed as a research assistant on my ARC DECRA project in the first half of 2023. The brief: to look at women in corporate leadership, in depth, in a particular company or...
by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Dec 8, 2023 | Data, Ideas
Today is (probably) the last of my interviews for 2023. Over the last 6 months I have interviewed over 25 women in executive and board roles of Australia’s largest companies from the 1990s to now. Some have been in person, and some have been virtual. In each instance,...
by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Oct 5, 2023 | Publishing
Our article on feminism and Australian company board diversity has just been published by Corporate Governance: An International Review! It is a very good reminder that sometimes research takes a while to find it’s ‘right’ home. We had completed the...
by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Mar 15, 2023 | Data, Ideas, Writing
In the quest to improve the number of women on boards, we often focus on the individual. We police women’s CVs and tell them their personal characteristics (or personality) are the reason they haven’t reached leadership roles. Tertiary and postgraduate qualifications,...
by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Mar 1, 2023 | Publishing, Writing
I recently submitted the first empirical article from my ARC DECRA project (except for the pilot, here and here)! It uses a content analysis of the Australian Financial Review’s weekly ‘Corporate Woman’ column to argue that popular discourse around Australian women in...
