Walking on the WILD side: lessons from university women and a university wide leadership program

This paper was prompted by an Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA) recommendation in the 2006 Murdoch University audit report, as well as our own perceived inconsistency between espoused equity values, and the realities for women academics. While the sector has had increasing government regulation more broadly, gender parity in governance for Universities has gone largely unnoticed by successive governments. This paper will explore some of these national higher education issues alongside the institutional and move towards a more multilevel analysis.