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Dr

Deborah Towns

Honorary
Management and Marketing
education, gender, leadership
gender equality, wgea,case studies, australia, workplaces
flexible work arrangements
diversity management
gender diversity
women, leadership, feminists
business & professional women, 1988 bicentenary, stained glass window, pioneer women, melbourne, st james old cathedral
women, politicians, victoria, parliament, history
education, gender, women, leadership, girls, teachers, victoria,
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Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works from 25 for Deborah Towns.

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Flexible work arrangements, gender diversity, and firm performance

Jesse E Olsen, Laura Good, Deborah Towns, Daejeong Choi

Conference Proceedings  |  2017  |  Academy of Management Proceedings

Scholars and practitioners alike often advocate the adoption of flexible work programs in order to achieve various organizational ..

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'A Secondary Education for All?' A History of State Secondary Schooling in Victoria

D Towns, J Andrews

Book  |  2017

'A secondary education for all'? reveals the lively history of how successive state and federal governments, the Department of Edu..

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Gender in Leadership and Workplaces.

D TOWNS

Book Chapter  |  2017

The goal in writing this book was to stimulate more comprehensive conversations about women in leadership situations (particularly..

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Inspiring Girls through leadership and teaching

D TOWNS

Book Chapter  |  2017

The goal in writing this book was to stimulate more comprehensive conversations about women in leadership situations (particularly..

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Women principals:Voices in non-government schools

D TOWNS

Book Chapter  |  2017

The goal in writing this book was to stimulate more comprehensive conversations about women in leadership situations (particularly..

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Gender equality in the workplace: Moving from practices to strategy

D Towns, L Good, J OLSEN

Presentation  |  2015

Refereed paper presented at the Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM)

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'Girls, school and society(1975) and Girls, School and Society in 2015'.

D TOWNS

Presentation  |  2015

Refereed paper presented at the Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society (ANZHES) conference.

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Gender Equality in the Workplace: Moving from Practices to Strategy

D TOWNS, L Good, J Olsen

Conference Proceedings  |  2015

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Workplace Gender Equality Strategy Project - Final Report

J Olsen, S Orpin, L Good, D TOWNS

Report  |  2015

Progress towards workplace gender equality is a national priority. For Australian organisations, closing the gender gap and maximi..

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Government Schools

D TOWNS

Book Chapter  |  2014

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Keyword Analysis

Schools and Learning Environments
Education Systems
Human Resources and Industrial Relations
Specialist Studies in Education
Microeconomics
Strategy, Management and Organisational Behaviour
Curriculum and Pedagogy
Education Policy, Sociology and Philosophy
Expanding Knowledge
Gender Studies

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Sexism needs to be challenged in schools, not just workplaces

Deborah Towns

Schooling should be about individual student needs and their pipelines to success, within a whole school approach to challenge sexism. Shutt..

March 7, 2018
conversation Article
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Helping men get work-life balance can help everyone

Laura Good, Deborah Towns, Jesse E. Olsen

Both men and women can benefit from an acceptance of the value of life outside work. Image sourced from Shutterstock.comWomen’s increased pa..

July 8, 2015
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2019

Medal of the Order of Australia

2018

Collaborative Community History Award, Towns & Andrews, 'A Secondary Education For All?' A History of State Secondary Schooling in Victoria.

Public Record Office of Victoria

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Education

Doctor of Philosophy

La Trobe University