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This paper asks why, despite the increased participation of women in the Australian workforce, and despite the introduction of Affirmative Action/Equal Employment Opportunity (AA/EEO) legislation, women are still under represented at management levels. We have plenty of 'Man'agers in our workforce, but where are the 'Fem'agers? Moving beyond previous Australian research on female managerial representation, this paper argues for a different approach to better understand their present situation. This research is located within a post-structuralist feminist framework. It uses an historical analysis that examines the impetus for the implementation of the AA/EEO legislation in Australia in the late 1980s. The last two decades have also produced significant changes in the discourses surrounding the position of women in the workforce and the issues they face.

This article takes a sideways look at conventional academic practices, with a view to re-instating ethical relations as the core of scholarly inquiry and revitalising interdisciplinary collaboration between academics at different stages of their careers. It focuses specifically on the deleterious effects of workload allocation models, with particular attention to how these distort relationships between colleagues.

For several years the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) at the Rochester Institute of Technology has offered a course that focuses on preparing video resumes. Professionals from the Instructional Television Department and the National Center of Employment for the Deaf have collaborated with communication instructors to develop this option for NTID students. This paper describes the instruction and evaluation process from the perspective of NTID instructors, students, and other technical professionals. Employers who have hired NTID students and those who have no familiarity with deaf employees also participated in the evaluation. Their comments give valuable insights into the often different perspectives of deafness between those who have worked with deaf employees and those who lack such experience. Video resumes were found to be a viable tool in the job search, and the process of preparing the video was found to be a stimulating and rewarding experience for the participating students.