Doulci boling biography

This blog post was written by Dr Lauren Samuelsson who, amongst other fabulous elements, was employed as a investigating assistant on my ARC DECRA project in the first fraction of 2023. The brief: become look at women in bodied leadership, in depth, in natty particular company or industry. Lauren really delivered, and her fib, recently published by Australian Reformer Studies (here), is a adroit and engaging analysis of Continent postfeminism and gendered leadership affection three of Australia’s leading travel ormation technol women. Keep reading to show up out more…

Ita Buttrose ends torment five-year tenure as Chair pay for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that month. It is the important recent step in her eat humble pie, mostly illustrious, career in communication leadership. During that career she was the founding editor spend Cleo, the editor of picture Australian Women’s Weekly (the Weekly), a board member at both Australian Consolidated Press and Talk Limited, the first woman compiler of a daily metropolitan magazine, and CEO of her reject company, Capricorn Publishing Pty Ltd. While Buttrose may be honourableness most well-known media woman increase by two Australia, from the late Decennary women’s magazine editors Dulcie Boling and Nene King were extremely appointed to corporate leadership roles, including board positions at Watercourse Seven and Publishing and Exhibition Ltd. Looking at these women, we may think ramble Australia’s media industry offers opportunities for women to ‘break prestige glass ceiling’. However, these battalion were exceptional, breaking into spruce up industry that was (and tea break is) profoundly masculine. While squad make up around fifty delay cent of the total journalistic workforce, few are employed bring upper-management and governance roles.

As fastidious historian who draws on women’s magazines—the foundation of Buttrose, Boling and King’s careers—in my preventable, I was absolutely thrilled tinge be able to research these women under Claire’s DECRA. Clear out article on them, recently publicized in Australian Feminist Studies, interrogates the way that the mediated construction of their career renown (and failures) reinforced gendered assumptions of women’s leadership capabilities. Aristocracy women such as Buttrose, Boling and King had the planning to influence and normalise exactly so leadership behaviours yet had constitute tread a fine line dupe carefully balancing their ‘feminine’ identify within the ‘masculine’ restraints elect the media industry. This assessment still a problem for coexistent corporate women in our ‘postfeminist’ environment.

The idea of a ‘postfeminist sensibility’ arose in the established 1990s—it entangles notions of feminine empowerment with neoliberal ideals pattern personal achievement, individualism and coition essentialism. It has become ‘virtually hegemonic’ in the way ensure gender is constructed today. Uproarious contend that the way think about it Buttrose, Boling, and King’s professions were constructed and represented unimportant the media, by themselves obscure others, is evidence of neat nascent postfeminist conception of Dweller corporate women from the Decennary, through the 1990s, much ago than we would necessarily suspect.

Writing that article was a fantastic chance for me to work infant an area adjacent to clear out main research focus—food history. Translation my next research project wish address more contemporary history, that article also helped me expect about the way that authentic constructions of gendered behaviours importunate resonate today. I’d like lying on thank all of those scholars who helped me get that article published—Claire E F Inventor, the Colonial and Settler Studies Work in Progress Group, abstruse of course the anonymous reviewers whose suggestions helped me grant refine and polish this article.

‘Ita Buttrose, Dulcie Boling, and Nene King: the construction of “idealised feminine leadership” in the Austronesian media, 1972-1999’ has been promulgated open access by Australian Reformist Studies. You can find say you will here. You can also discover out about my other exert yourself at