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Meraiah Foley

Senior Lecturer | The University of Sydney Business School
Verified email at sydney.edu.au
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Workplace gender equality in the post-pandemic era: Where to next?

M Foley, R Cooper - Journal of Industrial Relations, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed and accelerated many gendered labour market
inequalities in Australia and around the world. In this introduction to our special issue, ‘Workplace …

Women, work and industrial relations in Australia in 2019

M Foley, S Williamson… - Journal of Industrial …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Interest in women’s labour force participation, economic security and pay equity received
substantial media and public policy attention throughout 2019, largely attributable to the …

Managerial perspectives on implicit bias, affirmative action, and merit

M Foley, S Williamson - Public administration review, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Public sector organizations concerned about gender inequality have increasingly sought to
address the effect of implicit biases on merit‐based employment practices through bias …

Change agents or defending the status quo? How senior leaders frame workplace gender equality

N Cortis, M Foley, S Williamson - Gender, Work & Organization, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Senior leaders are usually understood to be ideally positioned to drive the organizational
changes needed to promote workplace gender equality. Yet seniority also influences leaders' …

Unconscious bias training: The 'silver bullet'for gender equity?

S Williamson, M Foley - Australian Journal of Public …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Western Governments concerned about the lack of gender equity in their workforces are
increasingly seeking to address the negative effects of unconscious biases on employment …

'I'll never be one of the boys': Gender harassment of women working as pilots and automotive tradespeople

M Foley, S Oxenbridge, R Cooper… - Gender, Work & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Significant research has examined sexual harassment in male‐dominated occupations, but
gender harassment — harassment that is not necessarily sexual in nature but is targeted at …

Is independence really an opportunity? The experience of entrepreneur-mothers

M Foley, M Baird, R Cooper… - Journal of Small Business …, 2018 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how entrepreneur-mothers experience
independence in the transition to entrepreneurship, and whether they perceive independence as …

Public servants working from home: Exploring managers' changing allowance decisions in a COVID-19 context

S Williamson, L Colley, M Foley - The Economic and Labour …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Before the COVID-19 pandemic forced large sections of the workforce to work from home,
the uptake of working from home in the public sector had been limited and subject to the …

Does anonymising job applications reduce gender bias? Understanding managers' perspectives

M Foley, S Williamson - Gender in Management: An International …, 2018 - emerald.com
Purpose Anonymous recruitment seeks to limit managers’ reliance on stereotypes in employment
decisions, thereby reducing discrimination. This paper aims to explore how managers …

Human resource devolution, decoupling and incoherence: How line managers manage gender equality reforms

S Williamson, L Colley, M Foley - Public Management Review, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Public sector human resource management (HRM) has been devolved from central
personnel agencies to line agency HRM professionals and further to line managers. While …