Annotated Bibliography on Workplace Discrimination and Gender Equality

This annotated bibliography provides a comprehensive overview of research articles on workplace discrimination and gender equality in Australia. The collection covers various topics such as cultural differences, religion, sexual harassment, violence against immigrant women, harmful workplace experiences, sex discrimination legislation, disability, bystander intervention, and stereotype threat. The articles utilize different research methodologies including qualitative and quantitative approaches, literature reviews, and case studies. The findings highlight the challenges faced by women in the workplace and the need for effective measures to promote gender equality and eliminate discrimination. The bibliography serves as a valuable resource for researchers, policymakers, and individuals interested in understanding and addressing workplace discrimination in Australia.

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Dunn, K.M., Atie, R., Mapedzahama, V., Ozalp, M. and Aydogan, A.F., 2015. The resilience
and ordinariness of Australian Muslims: Attitudes and experiences of Muslims report.
McDonald, P. and Charlesworth, S., 2019. Academic evidence on the causes, manifestations
and responses to workplace sexual harassment: Initial submission to the Australian Human
Rights Commission's National Inquiry into Sexual Harassment in Australian Workplaces.
McDonald, P., Charlesworth, S. and Graham, T., 2016. Action or inaction: Bystander
intervention in workplace sexual harassment. The International Journal of Human Resource
Management, 27(5), pp.548-566.
Reavley, N.J., Jorm, A.F. and Morgan, A.J., 2017. Discrimination and positive treatment
toward people with mental health problems in workplace and education settings: Findings
from an Australian National Survey. Stigma and Health, 2(4), p.254.
Sojo, V.E., Wood, R.E. and Genat, A.E., 2016. Harmful workplace experiences and women’s
occupational well-being: A meta-analysis. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 40(1), pp.10-40
Thornton, M., 2015. The Political Contingency of Sex Discrimination Legislation: The Case
of Australia. Laws, 4(3), pp.314-334.
Vaughan, C., Davis, E., Murdolo, A., Chen, J., Murray, L., Block, K., Quiazon, R. and Warr,
D., 2016. Promoting community-led responses to violence against immigrant and refugee
women in metropolitan and regional Australia: The ASPIRE Project: Key findings and future
directions.
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von Hippel, C., Sekaquaptewa, D. and McFarlane, M., 2015. Stereotype threat among women
in finance: Negative effects on identity, workplace well-being, and recruiting. Psychology of
Women Quarterly, 39(3), pp.405-414.
Williams, B.R., 2017. Disability in the Australian workplace: corporate governance or CSR
issue?. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 36(3), pp.206-221.
Yu, Y., 2017. How do gender relations and culture shape the lived experiences of Chinese
female expatriates at their workplaces in Sydney?.
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Full Citation Yu, Y., 2017. How do gender relations and culture shape the lived
experiences of Chinese female expatriates at their workplaces in
Sydney?.
Database
where article
was located
https://researchdirect.westernsydney.edu.au
Summary and
evaluation:
With the emergence of diverse workforce, one of the challenges of the
people working in the overseas is the issue of equal treatment. This article
summarises the issue of equal treatment to the Chinese women working in
the context of Sydney. It has been observed by the author that the women
number of challenges are faced by these Chinese women worker due to
their cultural difference and they are subjected to more ill treatment in the
workplace in comparison to the Australian women in their own context.
Research
Focus
 This research has been completed undertaking the qualitative
research method in order to derive the answers through the method
of interview.
 RQ: Does cultural difference lead to the sexual discrimination at
workplace?
Full Citation Dunn, K.M., Atie, R., Mapedzahama, V., Ozalp, M. and Aydogan,
A.F., 2015. The resilience and ordinariness of Australian Muslims:
Attitudes and experiences of Muslims report.
Database
where article
was located
https://researchdirect.westernsydney.edu.au
Summary and
evaluation:
Within the context of western Muslim University based in Sydney, it has
been observed that along with the issue of racism towards the non-
Australian folk, there is large number of gender related discrimination in
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some of the Australian universities. This issue has been make lives of the
Muslim women coming from the South Asian background more miserable
due to the discrimination they face for the sake of women and form a
different religion. The author tries to understand the link between religion
and gender discrimination against women.
Research
Focus
 Quantitative research method
 RQ: what is the relation between religion and gender related
discrimination?
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Full Citation McDonald, P. and Charlesworth, S., 2019. Academic evidence on the
causes, manifestations and responses to workplace sexual
harassment: Initial submission to the Australian Human Rights
Commission's National Inquiry into Sexual Harassment in Australian
Workplaces.
Database
where article
was located
https://eprints.qut.edu.au
Summary and
evaluation:
The author has argued that lack of sensitivity towards the issue of gender
equality has led to their growing number of discrimination at the
Australian workplace, it has also been pointed put that the issue has been
demanding serious concerns form the human rights commission that can
adequately mitigate the issue of sexual and gender based discrimination.
This has also been argued buy the author that there is a need to develop
the effective mechanism for the purpose of handling such sensitive issued
and there is a need to develop the same.
Research
Focus
 Secondary research methodology and based on literature review
 RQ: what is the impact the human rights commission making in
targeting the issue of sexual discrimination in workplace?
Full Citation Vaughan, C., Davis, E., Murdolo, A., Chen, J., Murray, L., Block, K.,
Quiazon, R. and Warr, D., 2016. Promoting community-led responses
to violence against immigrant and refugee women in metropolitan
and regional Australia: The ASPIRE Project: Key findings and
future directions.
Database
where article
was located
https://www.secasa.com.au
Summary and
evaluation:
The issue of immigrant and refugee women are the one who tend to feel
more violence and sex related discrimination in the context of Australian
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context. It has also been argued that the issue of improper mechanism at
place has been failing to cater to the interest of these refugee women who
are at the stake of higher number of such cases. The author explains the
requirement of preventive measures for the purpose of challenging this
dynamics at the workplace.
Research
Focus
 The study is based on the mixed method of qualitative and
quantitative
 RQ: what are the preventive measures taken for mitigating sex
related discrimination of refugee women at workplace?
Full Citation Sojo, V.E., Wood, R.E. and Genat, A.E., 2016. Harmful workplace
experiences and women’s occupational well-being: A meta-
analysis. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 40(1), pp.10-40.
Database
where article
was located
https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/
Summary and
evaluation:
The aim of this paper is to analyse the issue of harmful experience of the
women post such incidents at their workplace, the author has highlighted
the issue of emotional traumas that women undergo after discrimination
takes place at the workplace which is expected to be a place where
everyone is treated equally. This paper also raises the question of their job
related stress and experiences at the workplace.
Research
Focus
 Meta-analysis
 RQ: what are the impacts of harmful experience of workplace
sexual discrimination of the Australian women?
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Full Citation Thornton, M., 2015. The Political Contingency of Sex Discrimination
Legislation: The Case of Australia. Laws, 4(3), pp.314-334.
Database
where article
was located
https://www.mdpi.com/
Summary and
evaluation:
This essay has been focusing on the issue of enough gender sensitive
legislations within the contexts of Australia since it has been observed
that tie issue of lack of proper implementation of policies can be traced to
the issue of lack of policies at place. The author have also mentioned the
fact that there are number of legislations at work required to improve the
status of women in the context of Australia workplace. The author has
thrown on the theories of liberalism and neo-liberalism in the context of
the affirmative measures to be undertaken.
Research
Focus
 Secondary research review
 RQ: what is the affirmative action’s relation in improving the
status of women?
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Full Citation Williams, B.R., 2017. Disability in the Australian workplace:
corporate governance or CSR issue?. Equality, Diversity and
Inclusion: An International Journal, 36(3), pp.206-221.
Database
where article
was located
https://www.researchgate.net/
Summary and
evaluation:
The author questions the issue of workplace diversity as the source of
gender sensitization. There are number of gender related discrimination in
case of the Australian context as it has been observed that diversity
management at the workplace is one of the most crucial aspects of
management which has been lacking to great extent in the context of
Australia. Author has linked the issue of diversity management at the
workplace with the lack of CSR issues in place in order to establish the
link between the issue o gender sensitivity in workplace.
Research
Focus
 Case study method of analysis
 Quantitative research
 RQ: the relation between workplace diversity and gender
discrimination in Australian workplace.
Full Citation McDonald, P., Charlesworth, S. and Graham, T., 2016. Action or
inaction: Bystander intervention in workplace sexual
harassment. The International Journal of Human Resource
Management, 27(5), pp.548-566.
Database
where article
was located
https://researchbank.rmit.edu.au
Summary and
evaluation:
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the role of the bystander in creating
workplace related gender violence in the case of Australian workplaces. It
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has been also argued that the issue of bystanders and its link to the gender
related violence is the result of the less awareness in workplace. The
centrality of argument has been the connection between bystander’s
intervention and with that of the issue of sexual harassment of the women.
 Secondary literature review
 RQ: to what extent the role of bystander intervention is
responsible for the purpose of sexual harassment at the workplace.
Full Citation Reavley, N.J., Jorm, A.F. and Morgan, A.J., 2017. Discrimination and
positive treatment toward people with mental health problems in
workplace and education settings: Findings from an Australian
National Survey. Stigma and Health, 2(4), p.254.
Database
where article
was located
https://www.apa.org/i
Summary and
evaluation:
This article has portrayed the issue of women with mental health disorder
and the issue of discrimination. What has been observed is that nature of
work and education in the context of Australia has been discriminatory for
the women with mental health disorder. Even for wok experience and
higher level studies, mental health issue especially for the women have
been negatively impacting. The author mentioned that 54% of the women
with minor mental health issues have not been included in workplace due
to these factors.
Research
Focus
 Qualitative research method
 RQ: what is the status of the women with mental health issue in
the context of Australian workplace.
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Full Citation von Hippel, C., Sekaquaptewa, D. and McFarlane, M., 2015.
Stereotype threat among women in finance: Negative effects on
identity, workplace well-being, and recruiting. Psychology of Women
Quarterly, 39(3), pp.405-414.
Database
where article
was located
https://www.researchgate.net/
Summary and
evaluation:
In case of women in the financial and banking sector, there are less
representation of women in Australia in particular and globally in general.
What has been astonishing here is that the such less representation has
been negatively impacting and building stereotype against women in
workplace. It has also been argued that well-being of the women
employees have not been given equal importance like that of their
counter-part. It is also recommended that there is a need to develop
critical mechanism for the purpose of mitigating the risk of
discrimination.
Research
Focus
 Qualitative research
 RQ: what is the stereotyping against women in the financial and
banking sector in Australia?
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