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Australian Indigenous Health Reviews From the Australian Indigenous Health InfoNet Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women experience poorer health than other Australian women [1, 2]. Many Indigenous women suffer health problems due to the context of their lives, with significant impacts being related to dispossession, forced removals from family, racism, marginalisation and exposure to violence [1]. Women have many responsibilities as mothers, grandmothers, sisters, daughters, wives and partners, and most commonly it is the women in households who have the main responsibility for looking after the health of other family members. There is the potential for significant health gains for Indigenous women through improved prevention, early detection and treatment to address the higher levels of risk factors and the burden of disease with earlier onset and lower survival rates. To ensure better health outcomes, strategies need to include knowledge and awareness of the history, experience, culture and rights of Indigenous women.

Ph.D. thesis, Department of Political Science - Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy, June 2015.

This dissertation is about the cumulative disadvantages slowing down women academics’ advancement and keeping them from gaining the same organizational status as their male colleagues. It is also about understanding and explaining how gender relations are reconstituted in a rapidly changing academic context characterized by increasing demands for international competitiveness, innovation, flexibility and accountability.

The thesis employs a case study approach, adopting a critical realist meta-theoretical framework and a pluralist methodology to investigate the new and persistent gender equality challenges at Aarhus University in Denmark. The overall research objective has been divided into four analytically distinct potential explanatory components, each drawing attention to a number of social mechanisms, which under certain circumstances, can be expected to be instrumental to the persistent underrepresentation of female senior researchers at the university.