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Unexpected Turbulence is a feminist, multidisciplinary study of women in non-traditional occupations. Using Australian Defence Force (ADF) pilots as a 'case', the research examines factors impacting women's selection of a flying career; identifies the gender-based barriers and challenges women pilots face through different career stages; and delivers a model for increasing women's representation in non-traditional fields. The analysis draws on seventy-five semi-structured interviews and twelve focus group discussions designed to capture women and girls' experiences in and perceptions of civilian and military piloting careers. The study also encompasses valuable practical and theoretical insights from delivering, within the ADF, a targeted implementation strategy to mitigate the numerous challenges identified throughout the research. This thesis contends that ADF women pilots face pervasive and sometimes insurmountable gender-based hurdles, both structural and cultural, at every career stage. These barriers are primarily borne from women's extremely low numerical representation and the hegemonic masculinity found within military flying. Women's lack of critical mass in this highly masculinised occupation presents some difficult choices between isolationism and adopting the dominant male paradigm. In seeking a way forward, the study highlights several essential elements in analysing and responding to the challenges faced by women in non-traditional occupations; including the value of applying a feminist lens to each research and reform stage and maintaining an occupational (not organisational) focus. The research also demonstrates the criticality of addressing both supply (choice) and demand (power) factors impacting women's choices, attitudes and experiences and translating those insights into a comprehensive strategy for delivering occupational reform. The study makes a number of significant contributions, such as extending current theoretical frameworks pertaining to gendered occupations and locating ADF women pilots as 'case' within these frameworks. Most importantly, the study also introduces an original concept called 'occupational feminism' and an applied diversity reform model called 'Feminist Occupational Intervention'; each of which has the potential to be applied more broadly in both academic research and organisations and/or industries. Occupational feminism provides a framework for bridging feminist research and human resource development practice, to significantly improve the way organisations attract, select, train, and retain women in non-traditional occupations.

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AbstractFuture Humanities highlights the rise and convergence of new and critical humanities by publishing trans‐ and interdisciplinary research focused on diverse subjects and methodologies. These include, but are not limited to, philosophy, cultural and historical studies, religious studies, linguistics and semiotics, literature, and the arts as they intersect with various fields of study such as digital transformation and artificial intelligence, health ethics and biomedical technologies, climate change and biodiversity, and new media and communication. Special attention is given to the public dimension of these intersections and to the role that today's intellectuals play in their creation and development.

In contemporary societies, the humanities are under constant pressure and have to justify their existence. In the ongoing debates, Humboldt's ideals of 'Bildung' and 'pure science' are often used to justify the unique function of the humanities of ensuring free research and contributing to a vital and self-reflective democracy. Contemporary humanities have adopted a new orientation towards practices, and it is not clear how this fits with the ideals of 'Bildung' and 'pure science'. A possible theoretical framework for this orientation towards practices could be found in John Dewey's pragmatic philosophy. Contrary to Humboldt's idea that the non-practical is the most practical in the long run, philosophical pragmatism recommends to the humanities to situate knowledge in practices and apply knowledge to practices. ; In contemporary societies, the humanities are under constant pressure and have to justify their existence. In the ongoing debates, Humboldt's ideals of 'Bildung' and 'pure science' are often used to justify the unique function of the humanities of ensuring free research and contributing to a vital and self-reflective democracy. Contemporary humanities have adopted a new orientation towards practices, and it is not clear how this fits with the ideals of 'Bildung' and 'pure science'. A possible theoretical framework for this orientation towards practices could be found in John Dewey's pragmatic philosophy. Contrary to Humboldt's idea that the non-practical is the most practical in the long run, philosophical pragmatism recommends to the humanities to situate knowledge in practices and apply knowledge to practices.

The distinction between scientific judgment & the judgment of scientists has been increasingly blurred. Generalizations from social sciences lead to the popularization of unproved or unprovable social theory. Social scientists' acceptance of antiscientific frames of mind threatens the theoretical gains of a previous generation. An interest in human psychology has turned to a poetic, human mythology. Science & moral judgment are valuable in intellectual activity but not in social science. Scientists influenced by supportive values must free themselves from extrascientific influences. Applied social humanities attempts analysis to support or change the preferences of individuals for different kinds of behavior patterns. The meaning of life, quality of life, academic questions, & policy issues would be the concern in social humanities. An intellectual basis for new institutions to replace the depleted spiritual & judgmental resources would develop a core of research to form a learning tradition. Applied social humanists would be consultants with professional ethics similar to priests & psychiatrists. They would lecture, give seminars, & groups of social humanists, audiences & clients would form schools to provide cultural ferment centers. Religions cannot be manufactured, but a basis can be formed for the functional equivalent of religion. Modified HA.

Wang Hui's article, which is part of the author's larger project on the multiple origins of the Chinese humanities, examines the impact of the modern Western education system on disciplinary divisions in China. The article looks specifically at the development of humanities in China after the 1970s, and in particular since the 1990s.